Mary Hayes

Mary Hayes has been the General Secretary of AMI since September 2000. Before taking on thatresponsibility, she was, from 1990, the Director of Training for the AMI Elementary Course at the Montessori College in Dublin, Ireland. She was also, for some years, the acting Director of Training for the AMI Primary Course at the same college. Ms Hayes was Director of Training for the Elementary Montessori course held at the Toronto Montessori Institute, Canada, during the two academic years 1986-87 and 1987-88. Mary Hayes started her career in AMI in 1978 as a member of staff at the Montessori section of Sion Hill College in Dublin. She has considerable experience in the field of education, and holds both the 3-6 AMI Diploma (Dublin 1972) and 6-12 AMI Diploma (Bergamo 1974). After several years of teaching elementary classes, Ms. Hayes took the AMI Training of Trainers Programme at Sion Hill College and the Washington Montessori Institute. Apart from her work with students, she has contributed to the spread of Montessori through lectures and talks to parents and diploma holders. Mary Hayes is a member of the Pedagogical Committee, and an ex officio, non-voting, member of the Sponsoring Committee and the MM 75 Fund.