Course Content
Puppetry Workshop
The Training Course for Steiner early childhood and grade school teaching is an 8-week intensive part-time seminar consisting of three live-in blocks which prepares teachers to begin working with Steiner educational approaches in kindergarten and early grades. The course design intrinsically calls for assignments and self-study between blocks when participants can also already begin applying what they have learned. Trainees for early childhood education and grade school teaching will initially have similar introductory and foundational courses. Towards the latter modules, there will be specialized courses attuned to the differing skills required for early childhood and grade school teaching. All participants must be prepared to undergo an intensive self-transformation process that is a fundamental and unique aspect of Steiner Education. Because ultimately, it is the quality of the teacher’s inner life and behavior that educates the child. Graduates will have an opportunity for continuing education through mentoring and in-service trainings with a flexible curriculum adjusted to student needs.
Block One
Theme: Overview. Topics: Philippine and Global Educational Challenges. Overview of Steiner education within the larger context of helping create a visionary Philippines through the development of full human potential and through a social change approach known as social threefolding. Framework of Steiner education including details of a spiritual scientific perspective of the human being and evolution of human consciousness. Modern education discoveries convergent with Steiner education including multiple intelligences, emotional quotient, moral quotient, spiritual intelligence. Beginning details of educational approaches in Steiner education. Biography and self-transformation of the teacher. Artistic sessions woven throughout to include: Speech, Movement, Singing, Recorder Playing, Painting, and Drawing.
Block Two
Theme: Deepening. Topics: Detailed study of the spiritual image of human being. The four temperaments. Steiner pedagogy as it relates to spiritual image of the human being and the evolving consciousness of the child. Intermediate skills formation connected with drawing out the different forms of intelligence inherent in the twelve physical, soul and spiritual senses of the child. Curriculum overview. Discussion of Main Lesson. Continued skill development in music, arts in the subject areas including mathematics, geography, language , science, ecology, and basic skills, including reading and writing. Other topics to be defined depending on the needs of students as identified in Block 1.
Block Three
Theme: Application. Topics: Developing proficiency in Steiner pedagogical Arts, Detailed Curriculum and skill formation for Grade School and Kindergarten, Planning of Lessons, Main Lesson approach. Classroom and school Management. Teacher Resources. Continuing artistic skill formation including handwork. Other topics to be defined depending on student needs as identified in Block 2.
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Our Fifth Cycle of Teacher Training is currently underway. We will begin a new cycle with block one in December 2010. Contact us for inquiries. training AT gamotcogon.org
