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Who are the students coming towards us today? How can we transform our math classes to meet them? Upper Grades and High School Teachers are invited to join us for a working colloquium to explore these questions together with Marisha Plotnik, Jon McAlice and Beth Weisburn.
Register now for our summer workshop!
Upper Grades and High School Teachers are invited to join us to explore ways of teaching that are beyond our conventional disciplines.
Join us in Feb 2023 for a deep dive into the art of teaching!
In July, new and experienced teachers will gather with Jon McAlice to delve into aspects of adolescent development, both physiological and psychological. Artistic activities with BACWTT faculty will include music, sculpture and drawing. You will have the opportunity to work collaboratively in forming an age-appropriate course on a topic of your choosing.
Waldorf teachers of students in grades 6-12, and adults in Waldorf teacher education programs, are warmly invited to join us in person for this one day, collaborative event to be held at the San Francisco Waldorf School.
Jon McAlice will bring seed thoughts and activities focusing on practices of attentiveness and imagination that allow us to enter more fully into the learning experiences of our students.
In June, Waldorf students, alumni and faculty are invited to participate in “Conditio-humana”, the 2021 Kassel Youth Symposium, which is being broadcast in English in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the first Waldorf high school.
Hosted by the Center for Contextual Studies in North America, the Symposium will feature an American author and three college professors. Jon McAlice will host a North American discussion on Siri’s lectures each day using Zoom.
Read more and register to attend by selecting this workshop.
What inspires your teaching? How are you crafting educational community? We invite you to join us via Zoom on three consecutive days in February to consider the task of teaching as described by Rudolf Steiner in the first lecture for the teacher’s course in 1919. With this as background we will engage in open dialogue around the challenges teachers are experiencing at the moment, and what education might look like going forward.
We invite you to join us for this day-long exploration to take a closer look at the realities of today’s experienced life-world and work with the question: How can we better meet the developmental needs of today’s children?
Together with Jon McAlice, we will explore ways of developing our imaginative capacities, of moving beyond the limits of pragmatic thinking towards the qualities of warmth and life that emerge when our thinking approaches the imagination.
How can we better integrate students’ full-body experiences into the way we approach teaching? Is it time to focus more consciously on bringing students to experiences rich with meaning to help them school their thinking on what has touched and moved them? …. High school teachers from Bay Area Waldorf schools are collaborating with Jon McAlice and Wilfried Sommer to explore these topics. Upper School teachers are welcome!
After hosting five years of Math teacher working weekends in New York, we are gathering in California for the 2019/20 school year. In this collaborative working day, colleagues will share their experiences from the classroom around the conference theme: engaging with intention.
Getting Out of Their Way? Fostering Creativity, Imagination and Initiative in Today’s Adolescents…. High school teachers from Bay Area Waldorf schools are collaborating with Jon McAlice and Joan Caldarera to explore these topics. Upper School teachers are welcome!
In 2018, we are continuing this action research initiative. We have a new list of theorems, “The Ten Theorems Take Two”, and specific questions to take with you on the journey into the classroom. We invite you to bring a problem or theorem to students in at least two different grades, ranging from grade 6 to grade 12. Explore the activity of learning math in your school and attend our fall research colloquium!
As a new generation of teachers taking up the task of teaching, we are met with ever changing needs from our students. By exploring these questions and looking into student observation practices, we hope to receive the insights needed to craft the learning environments and methods that truly meet the developmental needs of our students today.
Wilfried Sommer, Craig Holdrege and Jon McAlice are returning to work with high school and middle school teachers in participatory explorations of phenomenological science at Summerfield in February 2018.
In collaboration with the faculty of the Summerfield Waldorf School in Santa Rosa CA, the Center for Contextual Studies will be facilitating a four-day workshop focusing on the metamorphosis of conceptual experience from early childhood through high school. Under the guidance of Jon McAlice, we will be working towards a better understanding and richer experience of what Rudolf Steiner termed the path from a formative education through an enlivening education to an awakening of conceptual understanding in adolescence.
Submit your favorite problem - explore the activity of learning in your school - attend our research colloquium
Please join our gathering of colleagues in Waldorf Education for a wide-ranging colloquium on the pressing questions facing Waldorf teachers today.
Wilfried Sommer, Craig Holdrege and Jon McAlice are returning to work with high school and middle school teachers in participatory explorations of phenomenological science at Summerfield in February 2017.
Florian Osswald and Jon McAlice will join us to explore subtleties of engaging the will, as spiritual activity, of individual students in the transformative activity of learning.
It is with anticipatory excitement that we announce the next Mathematics Teachers Colloquium, November 11-13, 2016 at the Rudolf Steiner School, New York City, hosted by Marisha Plotnik and Beth Weisburn. Mark your calendars now!
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