This course equips learners with the knowledge and skills required to manage and lead early years settings in Ireland. This includes both the business management skills needed to operate a successful early years business and the educational leadership skills to engage and motivate children, fellow educators and parents. The course includes four 5 credit modules covering these key skills and competencies.
Applications
All part-time applications are via direct application to the College. For further information contact info@smsi.ie.
International Applications
Applications from international learners are very welcome, though please note that this programme is not on the ILEP and therefore cannot provided Stamp 2 visa status. Please register your interest and we will be in touch with next steps.
Qualification
QQI Recognised
20 ECTS
Start Date – September 2022
This course will suit early years educators who are in leadership positions, or who are aspiring to such positions, and who are seeking to develop their management and leadership capability. The course also provides a support and stepping stone for professionals with newly or established early years settings or those seeking to open a new setting.
Fees
€ 990
Instalment plans available
Location
ONLINE Learning
Online Evening Weekly Classes x 2
4 ONLINE Saturday workshops
About St. Nicholas Montessori College of Ireland
We have been preparing Ireland’s leading Montessori teachers and early years practitioners since 1970. We are accredited by QQI and we are a founder member of the Irish Montessori Education Board (IMEB) and of the Higher Education College Association (HECA).
Our vision is to bring excellence in Montessori education to the broader education landscape so that all young people are placed at the heart of their own educational experience and empowered to be independent, confident and creative lifelong learners.
Additionally at SNMCI, we are about to make the big move – into our brand new campus building on Cumberland Street in Dun Laoghaire.
“Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core.”
Maria Montessori
“If schooling were evidence based, I think all schools would look a lot more like Montessori schools.”
Angelline Stoll Lillard - The Science Behind the Genius
“The education of even a small child . . . does not aim at preparing him for school, but for life.”
Maria Montessori