Ms. Charmaine Soh is the founder and directress of Greentree Montessori, Singapore. She obtained her Certificate in Education with Singapore National Institute and a Bachelors Degree in Social Studies with the National University of Singapore. After being a successful high school physical education and chinese language teacher, she decided to change her educational path from the high schoolers to that of the very young infants . She has thus went on to obtain intensive training in Montessori Education and Early Childhood Education. She received her birth to 3 and 3 to 6 years old Training Credentials from AMS (American Montessori Society) and AMI (Association of Montessori International). She was then awarded a Master Degree in Early Childhood Education from Pacific Oaks College, Pasadena, USA and the certificate for RIE Practices from the Resources of Infant Educarer (RIE). She has pioneered the first Infants' program in Singapore in 1992. 

 

Ms. Charmaine is a certified MACTE (Montessori Accreditation Council for Teacher Education) and an American Montessori Society Trainer. She is currently the president of Chinese Montessori International, and a well-known educator and trainer with many local and overseas teachers’ training Institutions.  She is well known to her active teaching strategies and lively classroom interactive skills.

Ms. Charmaine is an active member of the Consultation Committee for Ngee Ann Polytechnic's Early Childhood Department. She has been constantly invited to share her knowledge and expertise and have appeared in various medias for Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and China. Her articles are also commonly featured in newspapers, magazine titles such as Young Parents and Motherhood as well as China’s Web-media. She has also been featured in Singapore’s TV Channel 8 and China Beijing Broadcasting Station, ifeng.com. 

Ms Charmaine Soh is currently the academic and training director of Beijing Etonkids Educational Group, Singapore’s Greentree School of Education and the chief consultant of  many Kindergartens in South East Asia countries and China.