Welcome to the Summer Seminar for Subject Teachers at Steiner-schools!

It will take place at the Rudolf Steiner School in Helsinki on August the 1^st to the 3^nd.

The seminar is an inspiring start for the new school year! It will include interesting lectures, practical and artistic workshops and a lot of possibilities to meet colleges from all over the schools in Finland and some from abroad! The key-note speaker during the seminar is the writer Thomas Meyer, who will open with a lecture on Rudolf Steiner´s «The Philosophy of spiritual Activity». The themes of his lectures are:

• Thursday: «The Philosophy of spiritual Activity» as a gateway to a modern consciousness of the spirit. What is thinking and its meaning? – Beyond subject and object – Thinking -Thought - Words
• Friday: The Pearl of Clairvoyance in thinking (referring to a lecture of RS in Helsinki in 1913, GA §146) and modern Taoism
• Saturday: The social question, Individualism and egotism, good an evil

After every seminar and the lecture there will be a dialogue with participants.

In the workshops we will work artistically on the themes of the lectures and develop our own teaching, for example by studying the portfolio- and notebook work of students at Upper Secondary school level. In the artistic workshops you can study visual thinking in the arts or do eurythmy and music. These groups relate also to the lectures. For the new subject teachers there is the opportunity of getting acquainted with Antroposophy in the group that is led by Thomas Meyer: “Introduction group into Anthroposophy: What is Anthroposophy or spiritual science?

More info: kirsi.aarbakke@gmail.com

Welcome to the Summer Seminar for teachers at Steiner-schools and kindergartens!

It will take place at the Rudolf Steiner School in Helsinki on August the 1^st to the 4^th.

This seminar is part of the WALDORF 100 celebration in Finland. We started over a year ago to study all of the pedagogical lectures Rudolf Steiner gave in autumn 1919, just before the first Waldorf school was established in Stuttgart. In this seminar we will go into the days 9 to 14 and work with the lectures from Study of Man and Practical Advice for Teachers.

The work with Study of Man is lead by two inspiring ladies, Outi Rousu and Helena Sandell. Both are long term Waldorf pedagog's and also active in the School of Spiritual Science. Study of Man will be mainly group work. Some groups can operate in English.

Practical Advice for Teachers will worked through with practical approach. Waldorf teachers Anna Ljungkvist and Andrew Sebzda from Stockholm are giving us a new ideas for our daily work in the class room. Language: English. NOTICE: This is on the working group block! Remember to choose this one, when sing up!

Schedule:

• Thursday: lectures 9 ja 10
• Friday: lectures 11 ja 12
• Saturday: lectures 13 ja 14
• Sunday: wrapping up

More info: pia.pale@steinerkasvatus.fi

WORK GROUPS - DAY, BLOCK 3:

• Pedagogical work:Practical Advice for Teachers : Anna Ljunkvist ja Andrew Sebdzda (English)
• Pedagoginen työskentely, varhaiskasvattajat (KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS)
• A visual journey to the outlines of drawing - Piirtämisen rajoilla - Marika Tervahartiala (English, suomi)
• Spiritual activity in tunes and movement, Frihet i toner och rörelse Jostein Aarbakke ja Ann-Charlotte Aminoff (English, suomi, svenska)
• Spiritual Development in Connection with Community Building – Johannes Lauterbach ja Scott Hicks (English)
• NVC ja eurytmia yhteyttä luomassa, – Att skapa kontakt med eurytmi och NVC – Creating connection by Eurythmy and NVC - Janitta Koskinen ja Kimmo Sarekoski (suomi, English, svenska)

WORK GROUPS - EVENING, BLOCK 5:

• Pedagogical work: Practical Advice for Teachers : Anna Ljunkvist ja Andrew Sebdzda (English)
• Pedagoginen työskentely, varhaiskasvattajat (KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS)
• Lukion vihko- ja portfoliotyöskentely - Kaj Koskimies ja Maria Virkkilä - High School Main Lesson Book and Portfolio Work (English, suomi, svenska)
• Uusien aineopettajien perehdytys - Thomas Meyer - What is spiritual science? (English)
• Spiritual Development in Connection with Community Building – Johannes Lauterbach ja Scott Hicks (English)
• NVC ja eurytmia yhteyttä luomassa, – Att skapa kontakt med eurytmi och NVC – Creating connection by Eurythmy and NVC - Janitta Koskinen ja Kimmo Sarekoski (suomi, English, svenska)

Price before 17.5.2019:

300€ all seminar, includes lunch+dinner (at restaurant "White Lady") & coffee breaks

100€ one day

After that prices: 350€ / all tai 120€ / day tai 30€ / one session

Workshops, (Block 3): 13.00 – 14.30

Practical Advice for Teachers will worked through with practical approach. Waldorf teachers Anna Ljungkvist and Andrew Sebzda from Stockholm are giving us a new ideas for our daily work in the class room. Language: English. NOTICE: This is on the working group block! Remember to choose this one, when sing up!

Spiritual activity in tunes and movement/ på finska, svenska och eller engelska

A workshop with eurythmy, song and making music together with the help of rhythm, harmony, and melody.Breathing out with an artistic approach to the content of the lecture. Working with imaginative forces with an openness to novelty experiences.You will be able to make music together with others using instruments and your own voice, working with the basic impulses in the eurythmy movements and hopefully enjoying creating art with others.

A visual journey to the outlines of drawing – Piirtämisen rajoilla

The aim of this hands-on workshop is to introduce and explore the possibilities and limitations of drawing as a practice and method of thinking, (self-)reflection/exploration and observation - mainly in the educational contexts. Trough introductive presentation and practical examples the outlines of this applied visual and artistic method are drawn. The interdisciplinary theoretical background lies in the artistic research and visual (auto)ethnography and will be introduced shortly. Practical advice and methods as well as wide variety of references for visual journaling will be shared. Although pen and paper is the cleverest interface ever, there is also a possibility to test reMarkable - the only digital device that truly feels like paper and which has no distractions whatsoever (such as social media, e-mail, notifications etc.).

• Nor theoretical neither artistic (drawing) skills needed. All the needed materials provided.
• Languages used by the workshop leader Marika Tervahartiala are Finnish and English, Swedish understood quite fluently.

Workshops, (Block 5): 17.00 – 18.30

Practical Advice for Teachers will worked through with practical approach. Waldorf teachers Anna Ljungkvist and Andrew Sebzda from Stockholm are giving us a new ideas for our daily work in the class room. Language: English. NOTICE: This is on the working group block! Remember to choose this one, when sing up!

What is spiritual science? For the new subject teachers there is the opportunity of getting acquainted with Antroposophy in the group that is led by Thomas Meyer: “Introduction group into Anthroposophy: What is Anthroposophy or spiritual science."

High School Main Lesson Book and Portfolio Work

In the workshop, subject teachers gather together to develop their own teaching, based on the questions below. The aim is to get tools for teaching in upper secondary Waldorf school and Waldorf high school. In the workshop, each teacher will work on one or more of their own courses developing them together with other teachers. This is also an opportunity to plan cross-curricular courses.

- How do I apply the Main Lesson book in a new way in high school?

- How can I use portfolio methods in high school?

- How do I support the student's freedom in my teaching?

- What artistic methods could I use in my teaching?

- How do I include rhythmic elements to my teaching?

- How do I plan my teaching so that it supports the student's learning and development in a balanced way?

- How do I cultivate my own freedom in my work?