Peter's lectures - 11.30 AM - 12.30 AM IST- 2nd-5th Jan 2024
In these lecture discussions on day 1 participants will need to watch a pre-recorded video that will be sent a week before the program. Day 2 will be on the text from the 'The disembodied lady' by Oliver Saks, day 3 & 4 will be on Steiner's lectures on the 4 higher senses - hearing, language, thought and self. Please ensure that all videos and texts are read before you join the zoom lecture discussions. Participants will be working in groups of 4 or 5, during the lecture. Day 5 will be a plenum session with the 3 presenters moderating and facilitating the interactions.
This will be 'in-person' for participants, with only Peter Lutzker on zoom.
Sophia's workshops 1,2 &3 - See program schedule - 2nd-6th Jan 2024
Colour in the Classroom - Blackboard Drawing for Waldorf High School Teachers
Day#1 – Introduction - Rudolf Steiner’s philosophy of beauty and the arts to support healthy learning.
Exploring a range of techniques and using soul colour for borders, and titles.
Day#2 – Colour to enhance communication.
Using soul colour to enhance communication for blackboard diagrams and presentations for classes and parents.
Day#3 – Drawing Nature
Ways to create nature illustrations for Geography and Science lessons.
Day#4 – Drawing Human Faces.
Exploring simple ways to create facial proportions and different angles
Day#5 – Drawing Simple Human Figures
Sharing Ideas for illustrating for historical figures.
Living pictures - Blackboard Drawing for Waldorf Primary School Teachers
Day#1 – Introduction - Rudolf Steiner’s philosophy of beauty and the arts to support healthy learning.
Exploring a range of techniques and using soul colour for borders, and titles.
Day#2 – Colour to Enhance Communication.
Using soul colour to enhance communication for blackboard diagrams and presentations for classes and parents.
Day#3 – Illustrating Stories
Creating environments for class stories.
Day#4 – Drawing Human Faces.
Exploring simple ways to create facial proportions.
Day#5 – Drawing Simple Human Figures in Action.
The Rhythms of Weaving
Day#1 – The benefits of weaving for child development.
Activity - Woven Paper or Felt baskets.
Day#2 – Weaving materials and techniques.
Activity - Making a bag or recorder case over a cardboard frame.
Day#3 – Shapes and explorations.
Activity - Round weavings
Day#4 – More advanced weaving.
Activity - Basket Weaving
Day#5 – Activity - Finishing projects.
These will be 'in-person' workshops.
Lutz's workshop - See program schedule - 2nd-6th 2024
Humanizing education through history : History allows us to detect parallels to the development of the children. During the seminar Lutz will outline different examples coming from the original curriculum as given by Steiner from class 6 to class 12 and explain, why these examples match the needs of the pupils in Europe. As a next step the participants will start searching equivalent examples coming from their history. While doing this, we will soon realize that the horizon of the pupils, and hence the content of the lessons, widens as the pupils become older and more mature. It will be an interesting challenge to discuss the possible topics of the history lessons, especially if we keep in mind the expectations given from different examination board.
Teachers who already have some teaching experiences are welcome to contribute to the design of the seminar. The same applies to teachers of literature or any other subject which allows us to draw parallels to the development of the pupils. Lutz will see his role as an interpreter of the suggestions given by R. Steiner more than 100 years ago, the participants will “translate” the given ideas into their individual cultural context. The freedom to design each main lesson block individually can be a challenge. It is the aim of this workshop to become more confident in the selection of the topics and the methodology of teaching as we go through the years of the different classes.
An 'in-person' workshop.
Gerlinde's workshop - See program schedule - 2nd -6th Jan 2024
Humanizing education through movement : Gerlinde will offer an insight into various aspects of Bothmer Gymnastics. This special education could serve as a guideline for any teacher, in- and outside the movement classroom. Especially for teachers of movement the seminars will allow a deeper insight into different qualities of movement. Gerlinde will share with the participants her wide experience as a teacher from class 1 into the upper school, discussing the different needs of different ages, also taking into consideration the specific circumstances of our times and socialisation. Please bring comfortable clothes and soft shoes.
An 'in-person' workshop.