The Program
The Center for Educational Renewal will begin its 7th course, Teacher Training VII in June, 2010. In this course, students will deepen their understanding of Waldorf Pedagogy and Anthroposophy, as well as prepare to become Waldorf Teachers. Rudolf Steiner’s books and lectures, which view the human being as an evolving individuality of body, soul and spirit, are an essential part of the training along with an in-depth study of the arts. Through the study of Steiner’s works and the arts students are better able to understand human development, the Waldorf Curriculum, oneself and the times in which we live.
Classroom Work
Classes run from September to May, meeting Wednesdays and Fridays from 3:30pm to 6:30pm. Each year begins with a summer intensive in June from 8:30am to 3:30pm. An observation in a Waldorf classroom is done during the first year. In the following years each student is required to complete a three-week practicum in a Waldorf School.
Course Description
Year I: Theosophy, Form Drawing, Teaching Reading, Temperaments, painting, Eurythmy, Clay Model, Spacial Dynamics, Biography, Knowledge of Higher Worlds, Storytelling, Fairy Tales, Legends, Myths, History, Festivals, Art History, Music, Projective Geometry, Drawing, Math, Anhroposophical Medicine, Speech.
Year II: Philosophy of Intuitive Thinking, Drawing, Painting, Spacial Dynamics, Modelling, Child Development (0-7 Years), Discipline, The Main Lesson, Child, Teacher and Community, Student Teaching, Math, Woodwork, Parzival, Life of Rudolf Steiner, Mission of America, Kindergarten, Music, Speech, Anthroposophical Medicine, The Child Birth - 7 years.
Year III: Study of Man, Eurythmy, Drama, Teaching Grades 1-8, The Four Kingdoms of Nature, Zoology, Botony, Geology, Geography, Astronomy, Music, Speech, Woodworking, Faust, Puberty, Child Development (7-14 Years), Spacial Dynamics, Student Teachign, Physiology, Anthroposophical Medicine, The Child 7-14 Years, Beeswax Modelling, Eurythmy, Blackboard Drawing.
Year IV: Child Development (14-18 Years), Painting, Strorytelling, Spacial Dynamics, Drama, Final Projects, High School Curriculum, Music, Handwork, Drawing, Threefold Social Organism, Speech, Student Teaching, Waldorf Education for Adolescence, The School Farm, Anthroposophical Medicine (14-18 Years).