Montessori certification programme ends at RIS

Islamabad
A ceremony for the Montessori Certification Programme (MCP) was held at the Roots Academy for Professional & Intellectual Development (RAPID) at Wellington Campus.
Falah Ali Al-Ghafari, Jordanian charge d’affaires, Madam Midori Inomata, wife of Japanese ambassador, and Madam Bao Jiqing, wife of the ambassador of China, were the guests of honour on the occasion.
The course was attended by over 100 participants. The course encompassed the entire Montessori Pedagogy, including absorbent mind, prepared environment, role of Montessori directress, normalisation, 3-period lesson, introduction to sensitive periods, stages of development, deviation & normality, exercises of practical learning, sensorial exercises, language exercises, math exercises & culture exercises for the holistic development of course participants.
The ceremony started with a multimedia tour of the three-week program which showcased the pictorial journey of the MCP course delegates. This was followed by the overview offered by GM Trainings RAPID Tameema Tasnim. She emphasised that the early years in a child’s life are very significant where he-she absorbs and assimilates the information in his-her surroundings and forms perceptions about the world around.
Learning outcomes were shared by the RAPID master trainers Sobia Aleem and Sumaira Tanveer who summarised the Montessori Methodology & emphasised the significance of prepared environment, absorbent mind and sensitive periods of development. This was followed by presentations by the participants. They performed on two winning projects from cultural exercises puppetry & culture of the world.
Madam Bao Jiqing emphasised the significance of teacher training for a developing country like Pakistan and the impact of the RAPID initiative for teacher training. She emphasised the significance of trained teachers for the grooming of children. Trained teachers can fully develop the potential of the children and give them the impetus to evolve as value adding members of the society.
Madam Midori Inomata was pleased to note that this professional certification workshop is committed to provide a stable foundation in the early years of a child’s development with its exclusively crafted and superior quality Montessori learning material.
Falah Ali Al-Ghafari took the podium and congratulated the MCP graduates for having successfully completing this challenging training event so full of innovative training content and latest approaches in pedagogy and Montessori methodology. He further added that professionally certified teachers are the need of the hour.
Sara Walid, executive director of RIS, praised the team for conducting this preschool training and reiterated her resolve to empower the teachers on the platform of Roots Academy of Professional & Intellectual Development through internationally benchmarked training programmes to provide quality teacher training and empowering women of Pakistan. The ceremony concluded with the award of certificates to MCP graduates and mementos to the distinguished guests and trainers.
RAPID is committed to empower women through education and skills so as to enable each one to discover her full potential and self-esteem by becoming contributing members of the society. Our mission is to open up doors to specialised teacher training to all women with emphasis on women empowerment.