The short answer on Montessori Training Course
Most explanations of Montessori Training Course start with a definition and stop there. A definition is the least useful part, so this starts with what it looks like in practice instead.
Three parts are doing the work here: Montessori sets the approach, Course names what it is aimed at, and the training in between is where most of the disagreement actually lives.
Where this usually goes wrong is that a completed training module means the process is understood — a mistake that is invisible until something unfamiliar turns up.
Why course is the part that matters
Among team leads, trainers and people responsible for onboarding, this is one of those ideas that seems abstract until the moment it is not — typically three weeks into an onboarding that everyone has already signed off as complete.
Once you separate the montessori framing from the course practice, the idea gets considerably more useful and considerably less quotable.
Two questions to work with
Open with What would you do first if this went wrong on your shift? — a diagnostic, not a test.
Follow with Who would you need to talk to, and what would you ask them?, which is where the actual thinking happens.
Making it routine
In practice this means walking through a real scenario aloud and being asked why at each decision point.
The signal to watch for is escalations drop because people can reason from the principle rather than the script.
Next steps
The natural continuation from here is the onboarding question sets in the resources section, then a demo using one of your own procedures.