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Week 1

Joy in Teaching: Managing Time, Managing the Classroom

With Christof Wiechert

As teachers, our daily tasks challenge us to the core, moving us beyond our

emotional and intellectual comfort zones. Each day we need to find new

sources of confidence in ourselves in order to open up doors to the moral-

spiritual realm. In turn, the spiritual practices of moral technique––based on

imagination, inspiration, and intuition––can find their way into the classroom
and help us meet the many and diverse challenges asked of teachers today.

Classroom management is achieved by working with the daily rhythms and
breathing of the class, a dynamic use of artistic work, and a practical approach

to both the subjects and the children we teach. We will carefully study and

observe how we express our own attitudes to the lessons we teach. How do we

connect to the children in a way that enlivens and brings health and balance?

How do we work with the various needs and challenges which the children

present to us? How can we successfully teach all the children in our classroom?

We will learn how to strengthen classroom participation with health-bestowing

forces for all our children through awakened use of teacherly skills and a living

connection to our own path of self-transformation.

Eurythmy with Cezary Ciaglo

Materials fee: $15

Christof Wiechert, a popular lecturer and seminar leader the

world over, spent 30 years teaching at the Waldorf School in
The Hague, where he was himself a pupil. During this time he

was the co-founder of the Dutch Waldorf Teacher Training

Seminar. For many years, Christof was a council member in

the Anthroposophical Society in the Netherlands. Together

with Ate Koopmans, he developed the “Art of Child Study”
course. In 1999 he began to work for the Pedagogical Section

of the Society and from 2001 until 2011 served as Leader of

the Pedagogical Section of the School for Spiritual Science at

the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland. He is married with

five children.

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