Smruti Gopal is the Founder and Director of Formative age. She has taken both the Pre-Primary and Primary teacher training courses at Colin County Community College and NAMC, respectively. She has worked with children in both planes of development in the US and in India. Her passion for children led her to start a teacher training center in India 12 years ago. Last year she moved both the courses online to be able to impact a larger crowd. Smruti saw the positive impact of classroom instruction and made sure the online courses had all the elements that were needed to give the same opportunities to the student teachers for effective learning.
Having personally seen the Montessori Philosophy help children develop into contributing members of society, Smruti wanted to share her knowledge with other parents. She started a Formative age YouTube channel in which she is currently making videos for a series called “Being a Montessori parent”. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmYvK33eWx5ATC5qRXtikPg
Smruti is also a children’s Yoga instructor and has taken level 1 and 2 of Radiant child Yoga Teacher Training in Dallas, Texas under the guidance of Shaktha Kaur. Smruti believes that the principles of Yoga go hand in hand with the Montessori philosophy. She has taught children yoga since 2004 and currently has a series for children’s Yoga on the Formative Age Youtube channel called “Movement, Music and Meditation For Children.” Her passion for teaching children Yoga led her to create a curriculum for training children’s Yoga teachers.
Smruti has also conducted workshops on Parenting at companies like Aricent Technologies and Infosys in India. She also provides her support in Montessori schools by conducting refresher courses for teachers and by introducing the parents to the philosophy of the Montessori method.
It is her firm belief that “It takes a village to raise a child” and she will do everything in her capacity to create a world in which children can flourish.