Advanced Diploma in Rudolf Steiner Education

Course Code: 91119NSW
Austudy Available

In a proper school, no fact would ever be presented
as a soulless one, for the simple reason that there is no such thing.
Every facet of reality discovered where it lives,
startles with its wonder, beauty, meaning Marjorie Spock, Steiner Educator, 1973

In 2008 this course will be offered by the Melbourne Rudolf Steiner Seminar in Melbourne only.
In 2009 Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner School will offer this second-year training course in Rudolf Steiner Education under the auspices of the Melbourne Rudolf Steiner Seminar. Minimum numbers apply.
 All modules of the Diploma in Anthroposophical Studies are a pre or co requisite.

Graduates of the 2 year pathway leading to the Advanced Diploma of Rudolf Steiner Education may use proof of this qualification to apply for recognition to a Higher Education provider. Previous graduates have received up to 2 years advanced standing towards a Bachelor of Education.

This provides a unique pathway for those wishing to establish a professional career in teaching, but one based on the creative wisdom of Steiner Education. Graduates can chose to teach in the mainstream education system or apply to teach within the growing Steiner school movement.

This course seeks to train teachers who can reveal to the child the inherent beauty and wonder of the world and the potential goodness of the human being. It seeks experiences of truth and beauty, which can lead to understanding and wisdom.

As the world is a unity, so ideally will our knowledge of the world be experienced as a unity. With the background of the first year of study in philosophy and the arts students are able to enter the Steiner Curriculum of main lesson themes and learn to artistically develop lessons out of the wellspring of their own creativity.

With lectures and artistic tutorials each term, followed by classroom teaching experience, students build a knowledge of the way the child meets the world at each age and the teaching methods which most healthily support this process.

In the curriculum, children’s physical, spiritual and emotional development, are all interwoven with the subject matter and teaching methods. Children’s clarity of thought, sensitivity of feeling and strength of will are developed harmoniously.

Nestled on a hillside of a secluded bush valley with its creek which flows down to Middle Harbour, Glenaeon school is still only 15 minutes from the city centre and less than ½ hour from the northern beaches of Sydney. Surrounded by tall gum trees, turpentine trees and areas of remnant rainforest, the grounds adjoin the harbour bush reserve with its overhanging rock caves and waterfalls.

Students can partake in the life of the school, with its seasonal festivals, drama performances and community activities.

The 36 week full-time course comprises

• 7 weeks of intensives on the curriculum in classes 1-6 held during school holidays
•  15 weeks of lectures and tutorials on Educational Method held 2 days per week during the school  term
• 1 evening per week during term studying the Anthroposophical background to the curriculum and child development
• 3 weeks of classroom observation of morning Main Lessons in term 1
• 9 weeks of full-time supervised practice teaching (3 weeks in each of terms 2, 3 & 4)
• 2 weeks of self-directed study and research

Holidays for course participants are during the school terms.

A part time study option is also available whereby students may also complete the Advanced Diploma part-time over 2 years or more.

Course Modules

• Professional Studies including  Human Communication, School Management and Curriculum Background of Anthroposophy
• Education Studies including Steiner Pedagogy and Kindergarten and High School studies.
• Teaching Methods including main lesson theory, teaching through the arts, special needs
• Practice teaching (Practicum) occurs three times in three-week blocks in schools throughout Australia enabling students to experience both rural and city schools.
• Curriculum Studies in:
  - English and Storytelling, including study of the rich mythology stream of archetypal wisdom
  - Mathematics, Form Drawing and Geometry as revealing the inherent order, wisdom and beauty of the world.
  - Creative Arts of drama, painting and drawing, singing and recorder, eurythmy, craft and woodwork.
  - Human Society and its Environment as the study of human social and spiritual evolution
  - Science studies through a phenomenological approach which creates wonder in the child
  -Technology and Craft
  - Health and Personal Development
  - Physical Education and Eurythmy

Fees

Fees for 2009 to be advised

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