Author Archives: Thea Bredie

About Thea Bredie

Thea decided she wanted to be a teacher when she was 4 and it took her a good 20 years to get there, but she’s felt at home ever since. She started as a secondary school teacher of English & German, then worked as a Teacher-Trainer and Assessor in the Netherlands. She obtained an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh and subsequently worked as a Management Skills Trainer, Business Consultant and Research Manager for RSA. The last 15 years she has devoted herself to setting up and running Montessori Early Years environments. Her company currently runs two accredited Montessori pre-schools in West Sussex, in Horsham and in Southwater. She is one of a small group of Montessori Quality Accreditation Assessors and currently completing her training as a Chartered Educational Assessor. She is also researching the links between Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s Flow theory and Montessori education under the guidance of Professors Chris Pascal and Christine Skelton at the University of Birmingham, as part of her PhD research.