 She joined the board of the National League and was appointed as a lecturer in hygiene and anthropology at one of the two teacher-training colleges for women in Italy.In 1900 the National League opened the "Scuola Magistrale Ortofrenica", or Orthophrenic School, a "medico-pedagogical institute" for training teachers in educating mentally disabled children with an attached laboratory classroom.Montessori was appointed co-director.