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Meet the Trainers
 Joen Bettmann, Primary Director of Training
Joen Bettmann is a Primary (ages 3-6) Trainer, Examiner, and Consultant with the Association Montessori Internationale, and has nearly thirty years of Montessori experience. While Director of Training of the Ohio Montessori Training Institute (Cleveland, Ohio), she offered both academic-year and summer training formats. Ms. Bettmann frequently speaks at international Montessori conferences and has published articles in AMI Communications and The NAMTA Journal. She has had extensive classroom experience in both private and public Montessori schools, especially in central city locations. Ms. Bettmann has a B.A. in sociology and psychology and an M.A. in Montessori education. She has had training responsibilities at the Midwest Montessori Institute in Milwaukee, WI, the Montessori Institute Northwest in Portland, OR, the Maria Montessori Training Organisation in London, England and Computer Associates Corporate Childcare in Long Island, NY. She recently served as Director of Training for a three-summer course that started in 2003 in Sydney, Australia. She has participated in a U.S. government-sponsored Montessori project in South Africa. She also serves as an adjunct professor at Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland
Ms. Bettmann has written many articles in Montessori publications. Click here for her bibliography.
Connie Black, Auxiliary Trainer
Connie Black, Auxiliary Trainer for the Primary Training Course at Montessori Institute of Atlanta, is currently in the AMI Training of Trainers program at the Primary level. Ms. Black has 15 years of experience in Montessori classrooms, as well as 8 years in public school settings, working with children with special needs. She has experience with "Year Round Montessori" as well as "Montessori All Day." |
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J McKeever, Elementary Director of Training
J. McKeever, AMI Elementary Trainer, has been working on academic-year and summer training courses in recent years at Montessori Institute of Milwaukee. She holds diplomas from the Association Montessori Internationale for both the Primary and Elementary Levels, and has spent almost twenty years in Montessori Elementary classrooms with various combinations of the 6-12 age group. Ms. McKeever is a past board member of the Elementary Alumni Association, and is an AMI examiner and school consultant at the Elementary level. She has presented workshops and in-service practica on American History, Ecology, Classroom Management, Art, Drama, Writing, and How to Implement a Going Out Program. Ms. McKeever holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, a Master of Arts degree in Educational Processes, and a secondary level teaching credential. |
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Phyllis Pottish-Lewis, Elementary Guest Trainer/Lecturer
Phyllis Pottish-Lewis, AMI Elementary trainer, examiner, and school consultant, has directed AMI-elementary training courses in California and Minnesota. She is a guest lecturer for the Milwaukee, Maryland, and Minnesota courses. She holds AMI Primary and Elementary diplomas, a B.S. in Zoology, and an M.Ed. Ms. Pottish-Lewis is a former board member of AMI-EAA. She also has presented a number of workshops and refresher courses both nationally and internationally. She currently teaches a 9-12 class. We are delighted that she will be sharing her expertise as a visiting lecturer on the first Atlanta Elementary Course.
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Ginger Kleiber, Elementary Course Assistant
Ginger Kleiber is an AMI Elementary guide in a 6-12 class. She has seven years of Montessori elementary teaching experience. Ms. Kleiber also has worked in a traditional school environment for five years. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology, an Elementary AMI Montessori diploma, as well as her M. Ed. from Loyola University Maryland. Next year she will be working in an upper elementary class at Arbor Montessori School in Atlanta, GA. |
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