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Join the San Francisco Weekend Teacher Education Program

• Deepen your understanding of the philosophical foundations of Waldorf education
• Work with master teachers who share their expertise and insights while developing classroom capacities and skills
• Learn to fully integrate practical experience, academics and the arts while exploring social and group dynamics with your classmates
• Prepare yourself to teach at the early childhood, grades or high school level

About the Program

The Weekend-Summer Waldorf Teacher Education Program is a three year and three summer part-time training specifically designed for those living and working in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Emphasis is put on awakening the faculties of the teacher and developing his/her creativity in preparation for becoming a certificated Waldorf teacher. Classes meet Friday evenings and Saturday mornings during the academic year for three years and during three weeks each summer for three summers.

Academic Year: San Francisco Waldorf School
Summers: Fair Oaks Campus

This program includes observation and practice teaching in Waldorf schools, mentoring, and professional support. Qualified graduates have the possibility of applying to Waldorf schools world-wide.

CURRICULUM

• Year I
• Rudolf Steiner's Life
• Introduction to Anthroposophy and Waldorf Education
• Nature of the Human Being and His Destiny
• Philosophy of Freedom
• Schooling of Consciousness
• The Festivals and Their Meaning
• Parzival/Faust
• Curriculum Studies
• Singing and Recorder
• Speech and Drama
• Eurythmy
• Spacial Dynamics
• Clay Modeling
• Painting and Drawing

• Year II
• Cosmology
• Embryology
• The Temperaments,
• Their Metamorphosis
• The 12 Senses and
• Their Development
• Mythology and History
• The Evolution of Consciousness
• Through Art History
• Schooling of Consciousness
• and Inner Work
• The Social Organism
• Study of Man I&II
• Curriculum Studies
• Art (as in Year I)

• Year III
• Study of Man III
• Practical Advice to Teachers
• Discussions with Teachers
• Curriculum Studies and Didactics
• Balance in Teaching
• The Waldorf School
• as a Social Organism
• Art (as in year I & II)

Overnight Accommodations

Students in the weekend program who need overnight accomodations due to their long residential distance from the San Francisco Waldorf School are eligible to stay Friday nights in the school at no additional cost. Must provide own bedding.

Faculty

Irene Francois, MA, Director, has been a Waldorf teacher for over twenty-eight years at the elementary, high school, and teacher training levels in different countries including France, Switzerland, Canada and the United States. She was the director of the Rudolf Steiner Institute in Quebec, Canada, for fourteen years before coming to Rudolf Steiner College.

Adjunct Faculty: Karen Apana, Drina Brook, Patricia Dickson, Brian Gray, Ted Mahle, Astrid Tiersch-Weber, Patrick Wakeford-Evans, David Weber, and others.

For information concerning Admissions, Tuition and Fees, and financial Aid, please contact our Admissions Office at: 916-961-8727, e-mail: admissions@steinercollege.edu or visit our website at www.steinercollege.edu.