The Future of Education

Lingua Più is an official Training Center for Foreign Languages and ICT in Italy, Città di Castello.

Our expertise is based on the application of Montessori method for adults’ training.

With our speech we will show the audience how a small training centre in a small Italian town has been able to elaborate a new approach for training adults, based on the Montessori Method, and present our methodology.

Maria Montessori gave children the freedom to learn following their own pace, ability, and attitude.

Everyone involved in the educational system, is globally facing the need of quick qualifications and/or specialised qualifications, this usually involves adults.

Also, now people on 2^ and 3^ age ask for further education and training, both for personal interest and professional purposes.

This means that stakeholders in the educational field for adults must offer a different approach for a faster and more effective education, something that follows students’ pace  and reduces the stress caused by a limited amount of time available.

Lingua Più has successfully started  an application of the Montessori method applied to adults with its students.

- Why the Montessori Method for adults?

- The name “Montessori” is now synonymous of a high quality and effective education system. The Montessori Method is a pedagogical approach structured to teach children. At the beginning it was applied to children with learning difficulties and poor background: it had such good results that it became a curricular approach, worldwide.

It was applied, and it is still applied, with children up to the age of 11, and  is sometimes applied to teenagers.

- Why Lingua Più is involved in Montessori Method?

- Lingua Più is from Città di Castello, the place where Maria Montessori, together with our local Baroness Alice Franchetti, a good friend of hers, elaborated and refined the methodology and set up the first primary schools. Also, the first training course for Montessori teachers was held in 1909 in Città di Castello. Again in Città di Castello she printed her book “Il Metodo della Pedagogia Scientifica”

 

Following 2 researches carried on in 9 European countries, it seems that only Lingua Più is using this method applied to adults learners.

This expertise, particular of Lingua Più, acquired in many years of teachers’ training and improvements, resulted in two EU projects:

“Frojol – Free Style Montessori on the Job Learning” designed for:

- Teachers/ trainers  - professionals from schools or training centres 

- Tutors                    - professionals at work places, who tutor trainees

“MMLT – Montessori Methodology in Language Training” addressed to:

- Language teachers/ trainers to adults 20+

- Language trainers of trainers 

- Students of language teaching

- Language students

 

Both project have a Guide for Teachers and Trainers written by Lingua Più.