Also patience, a sense of humor. It requires about 700 contact hours of lectures, material making, and observations, plus homework, readings and papers. To work in a preschool you will require an early childhood or Kindergarten teacher qualification and these have become prerequisites to most Montessori preschool training courses. A primary teachers degree is required for admission to most courses and a preschool Montessori qualification is recommended. Most teacher trainers must have completed the course for which they are training teachers, must have taught children at this level successfully for at least five years, must have gone through a four year full time teacher-training course and most have been accredited for training teachers by an international board.
Today there are many training courses available.
Every one of these methods of learning has arisen to meet adult needs. One must match the training offered to one's particular needs and parenting or teaching plans. Excerpt taken with permission from Michael Olafs Essential Montessori. More details at Teacher Training .