Her Career
After obtaining her AMI Diploma she began her Montessori career in 1966 as the Directress of the Chintana Montessori Home in Chennai. From 1977 to 1979 she served as a full-time course assistant for the Indian Montessori Training Courses (The first Indian Montessori Training Course was conducted by Dr. Maria Montessori herself when she came to India). She was later made the External Examiner for this course and served in this capacity from 1977 to 1987. Osmania University invited her to conduct a series of lectures on the Montessori Method to Post-graduate students of Comparative Education in 1987. In 1988, she was awarded the Training of Trainer's certificate by the AMI. The same year she was appointed the Associate Director of the Indian Montessori Training Courses (IMTC) and went on to become the Director of the IMTC by 1990. Between 1996 and 1998 she was the Director of the Summer Course at the Montessori Training and Research Centre, Hyderabad. In 1998 she took over as the Director of the Chennai Montessori Training Centre and served in this capacity till 2001.
Meenakshi was also the External Examiner for the Pakistan Montessori Foundation at Karachi and Lahore, Shri Jain Mahila Samaj Montessori Training Center at Mumbai, and the International Association for Montessori Progressive at Sri Lanka.
Since 1997 onward she has been Training Directors at the Indian Montessori Centre, Bangalore, India. She has developed an Online Montessori Training Course to reach a wider audience through the internet.
She is the current Secretary General of the Indian Montessori Centre.
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