Part-time Courses – Not Eligible for VET FEE-Help
A one year Part-time course in Rudolf Steiner High School Education
Awakening young people to their destiny
The course is aimed at existing teachers or teachers in training who wish to deepen their understanding of Waldorf/Steiner education in the High School. From the nature of the developing adolescent to the needs of the inner work of the teacher, the course allows participants to investigate and discuss a variety of aspects pertinent to the healthy functioning of a school in our contemporary world.
The work is based on reverence for the divine individual within each and every developing young person. The secondary school finds its meaning in helping students to create their own path into the great disciplines of humanity: philosophy, science, geography, history, language, literature, mathematics, music, physical culture and art. Students are brought to these areas of human striving by people whose enthusiasm for these subjects can be shared and exploration and interest awakened.
Young people are the bearers of unique impulses which must be allowed to flourish for the benefit of the world. Part of our task is to provide the means through which they can develop their skill and knowledge with veneration in both the arts and sciences, and hence are able to partake, contribute and truly live within our rich culture in this current epoch of world evolution.
The ongoing transformation of the teacher by undertaking meditative work grounded on careful observation enables the curriculum to itself become transformed and living.
Through lectures, discussions, demonstrations and activities, the richness of a Steiner High School will be investigated and characterised.
The four terms each have a separate focus, though their content have some overlap. Term one focusses on the Nature of the Human Being, term two on Pedagogical Issues, term three looks at Specific Subject Areas, and term four focusses on the personal and ongoing Spiritual Development of the Teacher. Each session is preceded by an artistic activity, which may include singing, eurythmy, speech, painting or sculpture.
Curriculum Outline
Term One:
Introduction to Steiner Education emphasising Rudolf Steiner's description of the psychology and spirituality of the human being.
Text: Rudolf Steiner's Foundations of Human Experience (chapters supplied)
Term Two:
Developing pedagogical insights appropriate to adolescence.
The threefold social order and education; the College of Teachers; Observation and Child Studies; Curricula Overview.
Text: various (supplied)
Term Three:
The necessity of matching our curriculum and teaching practice with the unfolding inner life and developing maturity of the students is looked at with reference to the individual subject matter. The requirements of the particular subjects will be addressed in this term.
Text: Stockmeyer's Rudolf Steiner's Curriculum for Waldorf Schools (highly recommended)
Term Four:
The teacher requires constant nourishment for personal development and a rich life of inspiration. Sources which will nourish our vitality are considered in this term.
Texts (both required):
Rudolf Steiner Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
Rudolf Steiner Philosophy of Freedom
See our enrolment information page to download an application form.
For more details about this course please contact us: office@steinerseminar.com
