Montessori in Action Podcast

Engaging conversations with Montessori practitioners

Season 3, Ep. 8:

International Montessori Training

This episode features two Montessori trainers who talked with us about the experience of serving their communities.  Isabel Arce Garcia works at the Instituto Nueva Escuela in Puerto Rico and Khairieh Al Kalam works at the Sharjah Education Academy in the  United Arab Emirates.



Isabel Arce García is the Secondary Level Coordinator at Instituto Nueva Escuela, in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. She worked for 28 years as a teacher in La Nueva Escuela Juan Ponce de León; eleven of those as a Secondary Level I & II certified Montessori guide. She has been part of the Secondary Level training staff since 2015.


Khairieh Al Kalam has been a certified Montessori Trainer for thirteen years now. Currently, she works at the Sharjah Education Academy in the  United Arab Emirates and trains in different countries. She earned her Montessori diploma 23 years ago and started to work as a teacher and then a Principal in addition to her work as a trainer. 

Montessori material used to construct language in Spanish and Arabic: