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Montessori Tuition And Session Dates

For cohort start dates, click here.

For residency dates, click here.

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The Center for Guided Montessori Studies (CGMS) offers both teacher certification and professional development programs. This page provides information on our Early Childhood (Primary) and Elementary teacher certification programs. For information on our continuing education courses for parents, teachers and administrators, please see our Professional Development section.

Our teacher certification programs are offered in either of two forms: as a Full Certicate, or as an Associate Certificate program. What's the difference? Both of these contain an online component, but the Full Certificate program also requires a small residency, or two small residencies for Elementary students.

Elementary students please note: only students incapable of attending the residencies are eligible to enroll in the Elementary Associate Certificate program. For more information on the difference between the two programs, please read this page. To apply, please go here for our combined application for Primary and Elementary, Full and Associate certificate.




Cohort Start Dates


The next Primary cohort will start on: February 20, 2012
      Other dates in 2012 will be April 9, June 4, July 2 and October 29.

The next Elementary cohort will start on: February 13, 2012
      Other dates in 2012 will be April 16, June 11, July 2 and November 12.

The next Professional Development classes will start on: January 30, 2012


Residency Dates


This program combines the online program with a 2 and a half week summer session. Dates and locations for the 2011 residencies are:
Early Childhood
      Anchorage, AK   June 13-29, 2012
      Sarasota, FL   July 9-25, 2012
      Kingston, NY   July 18-August 3, 2012

Elementary
      Indianapolis, IN   June 18-July 3, 2012
      Sarasota, FL   July 9-25, 2012

All sessions include Saturdays.

Tuition


CGMS Associate Certificate tuition is comparable to a traditional training program. Note that the Full Certificate residential programs are not guaranteed to be held at the same location from year to year, although we do try. Full Certificate tuition does not include travel, room and board. We do provide students with information packages that help them travel to and stay at the residencies. This year in Indianapolis we have found accommodations available in dorms at Butler University for as little as $30/night for rooms for two people.


CGMS unfortunately can not offer full scholarships, but we do offer variable pricing based on country of origin, ability to pay and the number of payments tuition is broken into. Please contact us to discuss which custom payment arrangements work best for you.

Early Childhood (3-6)

Associate Certificate - $4500 (online only, no residency)
Full Certificate - $5900 (ignore residency tuition below)

Elementary(6-12)

Associate Certificate - $5700 (online only, no residency)
Full Certificate - $7200 (ignore residency tuition below)

Residency

If you enroll in the Full Certificate then the residency cost is already built into your tuition. Otherwise, the figures below are the additional cost for attending a residency when you originally enrolled in the Associate Certificate.
Early Childhood - $1500
Elementary - $2000