The Creative Intuitive

 Educational Experience and Training

• Trained in the Montessori Educational Method as a certified classroom teacher and as a master mentor and educationalist
• American Sign Language (ASL) training with informal classroom teaching at pre-k level
• Conducted a 5 year research project validating the methodology and curriculum AKRNA will be advancing, included classroom teaching and school administration
• Co-founder of Antakarana Montessori  Method Association (AMMA) training pre-k through grade 2 teachers
• Growing Up Strong (GUS) Senior Master Trainer conducting workshops and developing curriculum materials
• Educational Consultant for academic and affective skill development – early childhood-grade 3 (setup a preschool program and teen discussion group for a local organization)
• Private tutoring for children 2–10 years and teaching adult workshops on variety of subjects
• Director of Prime Time, a latch key after school program, for the YMCA
• Established a part-time children’s program for Nature’s Nook
• Various College and Continuing Education courses for facilitating co-dependency and alcoholic recovery, discipline, resource utilization, leadership, communications, computer program usage, professional sales training with field application, public speaking, listening skills,  results-oriented planning, and marketing and public relations
• Grant Writing Workshops
• Attended Eastern Michigan University, Oklahoma State University Technical Institute, Pacific Institute, University of Oklahoma, continuing education, and a Phi Theta Kappa National Honor Fraternity member.

Public speaking, volunteerism,  headline editor, and worked on a cookbook publication.

The Steady Beat of a Mother’s Heart & Wisdom

Tina brings her B. Ed, Progressive Montessori, and Nursery School Administration Certification to the Antakarana foundation.

Her many years teaching in foreign countries and the United States enriches her cultural openness which she brings as a valuable asset to our evolving work.  Tina’s strong base of ethics and honesty in relating underscores the Principles and motives which generated our unique curriculum insights and formulation.  Her keen interests are in advancing the social sciences and superior education that elicits the inner nature of a child to find their gifts and learn how to translate them into practical skills.

Tina and Sharon co- founded the  Antakarana Montessori  Method Association (AMMA), and together they formulated a curriculum training pre-k through grade 2 teachers in an advanced Montessori Method, reincorporating aspects that foster human spirit development, which, according to Dr. Elizabeth Caspari, were near and dear to Maria Montessori, yet often excluded from the schools and training organizations as either, not “popular or modern.”

Tina joined the As Buds Blossom research project validating the methodology and curriculum AKRNA will be advancing, including classroom teaching and school administration.