Carla Foster

Elementary Trainer

Carla Foster is one of the current AMI Directors of ElementaryTraining at Montessori
Training Center Northeast (MTCNE), USA and the Montessori Institute of Prague.
She also works permanently at the University College of Vestfold in Norway. Carla
holds bachelors and masters degrees in Social Anthropology, Old Icelandic Literature
and Norwegian Literature from UC Berkeley. She has AMI 3-6 and 6-12 diplomas
respectively from the Maria Montessori Training Organisation, in London, and the
Montessori Institute of Milwaukee, USA. She has worked with children at the levels 3-
6, 6-9 and 9-12 in both private and public Montessori schools. She has lived and
taught in Norway since 1995, and has been an elementary trainer since 2011. She
enjoys speaking about all subject areas in Cosmic Education, and has given a
number of workshops on storytelling, drama, music, geometry and the transitioning
child from Primary to Elementary. She was a keynote speaker at the 2017 AMI
International Congress.