Remedial Education Program, Rudolf Steiner College

Next Class Begins November, 2008

Today's children are exhibiting more and more special learning needs that require teachers to work with them in new ways. Teachers are searching for appropriate pedagogical approaches to support these students.

This three year, part-time certificate program offers practicing Waldorf teachers and those in related fields the opportunity to deepen their pedagogical insights and gain new skills in order to further their working with learning and behavior challenged students.

This program includes a two-week summer session and a four-day seminar in the fall and spring of each year. Each session includes theory and practical activities. Between sessions, students have extensive reading, research, movement, painting form drawing and observation assignments. The second and third year include work with a mentor.

The program is designed to give participants the opportunity to:

Deepen their understanding of human development with emphasis on the foundations for cognitive learning skills
Develop a capacity to "read" the children in our care
Learn to perform remedial assessments
Develop and implement an educational support program
Enhance classroom work

The Extra Lesson approach to learning difficulties is the focus of this program. A variety of other related approaches are also explored. Speech, eurythmy, spatial dynamics and other arts are included to help deepen faculties of perception.

Program Topics

Practical and Artistic Activities

Admissions

For information about becoming a student and our admissions process, contact: 916-961-8727 or visit our Admissions page.

This program is designed for teachers who have completed a Waldorf teacher training or the equivalent. Professionals with a training in Therapeutic Eurythmy, Spatial Dynamics, Speech Formation or anthroposophically oriented Art or Music Therapy will also be considered.

Faculty

Ingun Schneuder Ingun Schneider, P.T., Director, is an educational support teacher specializing in the Extra Lesson approach. Her international work as a remedial education mentor and consultant has taken her to Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Israel, Hungary, Spain, and the Scandinavian countries. Previously she has worked as a Waldorf class teacher, grades 1–8, a physical therapist, and a Lamaze childbirth educator. She is on the Board of the International Extra Lesson Association (IELA) and is a Masters candidate in Education.

Adjunct Faculty: includes physicians specializing in anthroposophically extended medicine, speech therapists, therapeutic eurythmists, artists, musicians, remedial specialists and Waldorf educators. Among these are: Sunny Baldwin; Bruno Callegaro, MD; Tom Cowan, MD; Frank Chester; Erica Eikenboom; Joep Eikenboom; Brian Gray; Margaret Kerndt; Nancy McMahon; Myra McPherson; Mary Jo Oresti; Nancy Poer; Astrid Schmitt-Stegmann; Patrick Wakeford-Evans; Robin White.