Foundations Studies: June 20-27
Summer 2008
Waldorf High School Program
Teacher Education Program: June 29 (7 pm) - July 18
Curriculum Courses: June 30- July 11
Adolescent Week: July 14-18
Many young people today
are urgently seeking to make sense of a turbulent world and find meaningful
directions for their future.
High School teachers can make a critical difference in individual lives
and in society as a whole as they help students to discover their gifts
and realize their often enormous potentials.
- gives
students appreciation for past cultural and individual contributions,
encourages them to grapple with issues of the day
- helps
them to develop clear, flexible thinking, compassion for others, a will
to work
- provides an integration of practical experience, academics and the arts
- stimulates wonder and imagination
- helps students to develop and balance physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual capacities
- strengthens
a sense of community, responsibility for the earth and society
Curriculum
This certificate program consists of one four-week summer session for three summers along with continuing independent study, observation and practice teaching during the academic year. Prerequisites include a strong background in one's specific subject area and an enthusiasm for working with the challenges of adolescence. This program includes Foundation Studies as well as subject specialization courses. For those who have already completed the Foundation Year, the High School program consists of one three-week session for three summers. Students may enter the program during any summer.
Each summer session includes subject
specialty areas such as physics, chemistry, life science, mathematics,
history, literature, Spanish language, and arts taught by master teachers.
Arts include courses such as singing, speech, drama, painting,
drawing, eurythmy, sculpture, form drawing, bookbinding, woodcarving,
experiential education, crafts, mathematical models, and spatial dynamics.
Admissions
For information about becoming a student and our admissions process please
contact the RSC office or click here: admissions.
Program
Director
Betty Staley, MA, directs Waldorf High School
Teacher Education as well as programs for public school teachers. A Waldorf
educator for over thirty years at the kindergarten, elementary, high school
and teacher training levels. She is a founder of the Sacramento Waldorf
High School where she taught history and literature for nineteen years.
She is the author of Between
Form and Freedom: A Practical Guide to the Teenage Years; Hear the Voice
of the Griot!: A Guide to the History, Geography and Culture of Africa;
Tapestries: Weaving Life's Journey and Adolescence: The Sacred Passage Inspired by the Legend of Parzival
