Our aim:

To establish AMI training in New Zealand in order to prepare graduates to seek employment in Montessori schools both in New Zealand and internationally.

The Maria Montessori Education Foundation (MMEF) is an affiliated training centre for Association Montessori Internationale (AMI)

The purposes of the MMEF are as follows:

• To establish AMI training in New Zealand. Integral to this also will be to support the participation in the AMI Training of Trainers programme by AMI Diploma holders in New Zealand.
• To uphold the rights of the child in society, and make known the child’s importance for the progress of civilisation;
• To make known the natural laws of growth in order to help the child to develop naturally in the family, school and society;
• To spread and uphold the pedagogical principles and practice formulated by Dr. Maria Montessori, which ensures the independence of the child’s personality through successive stages of growth until full normal development is reached by means of the child’s own activity;
• To provide opportunities wherever possible for children to develop normally, thereby helping all adults to enter into a new life of harmony and cooperation with children; and by thus unifying the two fundamental phases of human life, to lead the way to a higher and more peaceable civilisation;
• To support the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) as a social movement that will strive to obtain recognition for the rights of the child throughout the world, irrespective of race, religion, political and social beliefs.

MMEF is a registered Charitable Trust. It was accredited by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA) as a Private Training Establishment (PTE) in 2008.

The Management Team

A team of trustees made up of AMI trained staff from 0-3, 3-6 and 6-12 years, plus financial and business representation.

The Advisory Group

Representatives to advise on education and training matters and initiatives.

The Academic Team

MMEF faculty 

MMEF Training