Waldorf Teacher Institute is proud to facilitate a brand new offering from our friends in education at THE PEDAGOGICAL SECTION COUNCIL OF NORTH AMERICA. Members of the council are presenting a series of 75 minute online presentations over the next year and a half. Four are being offered this school year with the help of WTI. We invite you to join them in unpacking these timely themes together.
All sessions are FREE and open to all.
Dates, topics, times, and registration listed below.
BIOGRAPHY AND THE CHALLENGE OF MEETING THE ADOLESCENT
Presenter: Betty Staley
High school teaching is a two-way communication between teacher and student. Although adolescents are not always consciously aware of their style and tone, they may look back on it decades later. Why did I say that? How did I express myself clearly and respectfully? A teacher receives these messages, and depending on their biography, may respond in different ways. Teachers also reflect on how they responded. Does the teacher become defensive, curious, aggressive, empathetic? So much depends on the teacher’s temperament and stage of life. During this presentation, I will share ways in which our biography plays into ways we meet adolescents, and participants will contribute their thoughts.
Online Zoom Event: 12pm-1:15pm EST
THE SOCIAL IMPERATIVE OF AUTHENTIC CONVERSATION
Presenter: Holly Koteen-Soule
In what way is face-to-face conversation an antidote to the challenging consequences of our culture and times?
Online Zoom Event: 12pm-1:15pm EST
POSITIVE DISCIPLINE
Presenter: Vernon Dewey
All discipline and so-called classroom management begins with the inner life of the teacher. Remembering that "discipline" stems from "disciple", how do we create a worthy path for the students to follow? When are we unconsciously keeping them in a behavioral rut, and how can we lead them out onto a path of becoming? During this presentation I will share how Steiner's 4th Basic Exercise can help us develop a kind of positivity in discipline and classroom behavior.
Online Zoom Event: 12pm-1:15pm EST
COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP
Presenter: Michael Holdrege
In his opening address the evening before the first teacher’s course, Rudolf Steiner spoke of the Waldorf School as a cultural deed that must be : collegially without external supervision through a school board (or executive) from above. In a time when polarization rather than collaboration appears to be a growing tendency, and where top-down decision making still prevails in most organizations, reaching the goal outlined by Rudolf Steiner for Waldorf Education is not easy. In this seminar I will offer various perspectives—based on my own experience and those of others I know—that support the realization of such a living social form, and hope that these will be enriched by contributions from other participants based on their own successes and failures in this direction.
Online Zoom Event: 12pm-1:15pm EST
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