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Staff Vacancy:
Nous recherchons un(e) éducateur(trice) Montessori 3-6, francophone ayant de l’expérience pour une entrée en fonction dès que possible.
Il s’agit de prendre en charge une classe de 18 enfants de 3 à 6 ans.
Merci de nous envoyer votre CV et lettre de motivation à
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One of the many beauties of Montessori education is that it provides the child a foundation that evolves into a life-long love of learning. What many parents do not know is that for a teacher, Montessori is a life-long learning experience. Through professional development programmes, seminars and conferences, Montessori teachers are continuously expanding their knowledge and learning new ways of guiding the children in their classroom.
It is this openness to new information that creates the wonderfully supportive atmosphere in a Montessori classroom, where teachers are guides and observers who recognise that the classroom is a scientific laboratory filled with love for the child and for learning coupled with respect for new information as well as old, proven facts. In the spirit of science, the teachers are constantly blending their new knowledge and skills with the life-time of learning they have acquired as Montessorians. Each day in the classroom the beneficiaries of this knowledge are the children. As they mature, and because of their Montessori experience, they too will be open to learning new information. Equally important, they will be able, like a Montessori guide, to weigh that information with an open mind and to determine wether it is fact or fantasy.
The goal to better the world by educating the child is an underlying foundation of Dr. Maria Montessori. It was a good goal a century ago when she first stated it, and it continues to be valid today. Every Montessori teacher (guide) and every Montessori student (child) is playing their part in helping to achieve that goal.
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Marcel van Ratingen is the director of Montessori House Brussels.
While combining management with teaching he is able to create learning experiences for the children, for the staff and for himself.
"I could not be without the pleasure of having children around me to observe, to guide and to help becoming great independent learners," he says.
Marcel graduated from the Pedagogical Academy of Maastricht (The Netherlands) in 1976 as an elementary teacher. The same year he started his teaching career in a small Dutch town called Ede. He became head of a state-owned primary school in 1988, which he transformed into a Montesssori school. He graduated as a Montessori teacher (Casa dei Bambini and Elementary) in 1996 from the ‘Nederlandse Montessori Vereniging’.
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Looking for new horizons he moved to London to gain experiences in the English educational system. In 2001 he moved to Brussels.
With his partner he enjoyed working in their English styled tea shop in the centre of Brussels, as well as working on and off at Montessori schools. In 2006 he co-founded Montessori House Brussels and It is with great pleasure that Marcel guides children and teachers in order to create a wonderful environment for your child(ren).
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Aurélie Serruys, our French speaking Nursery teacher, observing the child is a passion she has developed over the years. At a very young age she loved taking care of children and her interest in the young child and his development remains of great importance.
After graduating as a Physical Education teacher she studied further specialising in the psycho motor skills of young children. To accomplish her study Aurélie worked on a one to one basis with special needs children for one year. This gave her a much clearer view of the young child’s behaviour and needs.
Aurélie also worked in a private therapy swimming pool, helping young children to develop their psycho motor skills. It is during this period that she started comparing different methods of education that help the child to develop and discovered Montessori.
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She went to Dallas to attend a three year summer course in the Montessori philosophy (AMI accredited), where she graduated as a Children’s House Montessori guide in 2007. From 2003 to 2007 Aurélie worked at Montessori International in Wezembeek and in September 2007 she joined Montessori House Brussels.
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In the beginning of 2011 Ira joined our Nursery Class, where she replaces Aurelie.
She grew up in Albania and went first to the United States to study. Afterwards she came to Belgium and while studying International Affairs & Politics and Human Resource Management, she taught English as a foreign language to children from ages 4 to 10. Having completed her studies, she initially pursued a career in public affairs. After working for a few years in this environment, she felt out of place and realized that her true passion lied within human development. Ira went on becoming a trainer with the majority of the work directed toward life and career coaching for individuals and teams in the Benelux region.
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Last year, she decided to live her childhood dream and moved to Delhi, India for one year and travelled around Asia. There, she also landed her dream job and taught as a Kindergarten teacher alongside a Montessori trained teacher in an international school. This experience awakened her enthusiasm for the Montessori philosophy of education and her calling in teaching young children.
Ira enrolled in the Early Childhood Montessori Training Programme in London and is using her daily training next to the theoretical foundations to build a steady and strong path toward Montessori teaching. She finds daily inspiration in working with children and takes enormous pleasure in being part of a learning environment.
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Fiona Williams has recently moved back to Belgium. She comes from England but has lived in several different countries, accompanying her husband on his diplomatic postings. They lived in Brussels 15 years ago with their three children, but this time they have come on their own since their children are now grown up and remain in the UK.
When her children were younger Fiona helped in their schools and it was this love of being with and working with small children that motivated her to successfully complete her International Post- Graduate Diploma in Montessori Education in 2001 from the Kent and Sussex Montessori Centre in the UK.
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She has since worked in 2 different Montessori nurseries in Kent. Fiona is also a qualified teacher of English as a foreign language and has taught both children and adults in England and abroad.
She loved the Early Years Montessori course, continues to be inspired by the Montessori philosophy and now looks forward very much to working with Maela and the children of Montessori House Brussels.
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Since September 2010 Maela le Bolloch is our French teacher for the upstairs class.
Already as a teenager, growing up in Brittanie she was attracted to jobs related to children.
After a skill appraisal in 2007 she understood that her abilities were to be found in teaching, psychology and creativity.
Maela was advised to study the Montessori pedagogy, and reading Maria Montessori’s books was a true revelation to her!
She would have loved to grow up in such a positive place, full of respect for children.
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Maela realised that this philosophy should be available to every child, and she wanted to participate actively in creating this opportunity for many children.
She decided to become a Montessori guide for the ‘Casa dei Bambini’ level and successfully accomplished her training in Paris in 2008 at the Institut Supérieur Maria Montessori (AMI accredited).“
I never had any doubts as to the power of that pedagogy, and every day I get more and more excited about it,” Maela admits.
Her first position as a Montessori teacher was in The Bilingual Montessori School of Paris. Then Maela went to Lausanne to work in a kindergarten, where she stayed for 8 months until she was asked to come to Brussels to work at Montessori House Brussels.
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