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Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Creativity
AMI Annual General Meeting 2016
Ana-Maria Brezniceanu
Vice-President of A.D.M.E.R. Association for the Development of Montessori Education in
Romania
Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Creativity
DAY-DREAMING
Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Creativity
NOVELTY
Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Creativity
ACTION
Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Creativity
TEAM WORK
Long-term dreaming
And the dream goes on...
l 6-12 l 12-18 l Corner of Hope - Kenya l Senior citizens with dementia - Australia l Education for aboriginal people l Education in inner city areas l Aid to Life
Social responsibility
l From an educational movement to a social movement
CSR SSR ESR
DISSEMINATION
Besides parents: l Business l Regulators l Teachers (including Professors who teach to
would-be teachers) l Anyone who can benefit from it
In Romania
l Visually impaired people l Teach for Romania l Teachers from state schools – cooperation
with other alternatives l Students from The Faculty of Education
In Romania
l Visually impaired people l Teach for Romania l Teachers from state schools – cooperation
with other alternatives l Students from The Faculty of Education
Teach for Romania
LSA – Leadership Summer Academy l Freedom and responsibility l Assessment without grades is possible l Self-management and autonomy l Interdisciplinarity l Planes of development
In Romania
l Visually impaired people l Teach for Romania l Teachers from state schools – cooperation
with other educational alternatives l Students from The Faculty of Education
TEACHERS FROM STATE SCHOOLS
Difficulties they face: l Changing Ministers / regulations / bureaucratic tasks
l The curriculum – a new one is being conceived.
l No knowledge of interdisciplinarity
l No training for multi-age classes
What we offered: l A symposium on good practices for interdisciplinarity
l Partnership with other alternative pedagogies
l Co-organised with the School Inspectorate
In Romania
l Visually impaired people l Teach for Romania l Teachers from state schools – cooperation
with other alternatives l Students from The Faculty of Education
Masters of Alternative Pedagogies
l It is the first of the kind in Romania - 3rd year l Students' positive feed-back l Steve Hughes conference on “Getting the
Education Reform Out Of the Box” l Students' research on Montessori education l Intention to open the first early-childhood
programme in English.
In Romania
l Visually impaired people l Teach for Romania l Teachers from state schools – cooperation
with other alternatives l Students from The Faculty of Education l Professors who prepare students who will
become teachers
Possible research interests
l building self-management & autonomy
l meta-cognition
l active learning, authentic learning, discovery learning, experiential learning, cooperative learning, holistic learning, interactive learning, problem-based learning
l differentiated instruction
l heterogeneous grouping
l higher-order thinking
l integrated curriculum, interdisciplinary curriculum, spiral curriculum
Next Steps of Action
l Launching the conference on: Self-Directed Learning and Meta-Cognition Bucharest, November 2016
