Liang Xiang Chinese Program Early Childhood Instructional Guide

Ling Xiang serves as an Online Instructor, a Field Consultant, and a Practicum Advisor for CGMS. Ling says, “Joining the Montessori Education is both accidental and inevitable for me. My parents’ teaching backgrounds and my personal growth and education experience in China made me pay attention to different educational systems while having my own critical thinking on them. My experience living in London as well as my role as a mother made me decide to become a Montessori teacher, choosing to let my children grow joyfully and healthily in a Montessori environment. I have been working as a Montessori guide in a local Montessori school since I graduated from a one-year intense training program in London in 2006. Montessori education not only imparts knowledge and skills but also supports development. As Montessori teachers, we guide and motivate children’s love for learning and curiosity through the prepared environment, supporting and facilitating the children’s overall development academically, intellectually and physically. As Montessori teachers, we are also learning from children during the process of guiding, which in turn helping ourselves to have further intellectual development and maturity. During my years of teaching, I have had the privilege of assisting AMI to review and publish some of the major Montessori educational books in China. I hope the Montessori education system can be more widely understood, learned and applied in China. I feel happy and lucky to join in the CGMS Chinese Montessori Teaching Program.”