Education Courses Summer 2004

Exp. Ed., Integrated Learning & Science
Entering Year Round Waldorf Program
Finishing Year Round Waldorf Program
Entering Summer Sequence
Finishing Summer Sequence

Exp. Educators, Integrated Learning & Science

EDC 657
Action Research
Content Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Required of and Restricted to Experienced Educator School Choice Cluster.

This course will introduce students to the theory and strategies behind action research. Students will work on selecting an appropriate topic related to their Master's Projects and will develop a research proposal. We will discuss strategies for framing a question and for designing a research plan - examining the relationships between method and purpose. Emphasis will be on the dynamic nature of qualitative research and the role it can play in the educational change process.

Section A: School Choice Cluster
Time: June 28 - July 2, 8:00 am - 1:00 pm
Maximum: 15
Credits: 2

EDP 590
Children with Special Needs: Focus on Childhood
Competency Area: Education & Social Policy
Required of and Priority to Integrated Learning, Science Education & Waldorf teacher certification students.

This course will examine the perceptions and attitudes of the individual, family, teacher and community toward children with special needs and provide a mechanism by which the evolving teacher can better meet the human needs of the child who is labeled exceptional. We will discuss laws and public policy as they are filtered through community, educational and family systems. The inclusionary classroom will provide the foundation for examination of the ways in which specific curricular and other adaptations can enhance the lives and the learning of children with disabilities.

Section A: Laureen Harlow
Time: Monday - Friday, June 21 - 25,
1:00 - 4:30 pm, and
Monday - Friday, June 28 - July 2,
8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Maximum: 18
Credits: 2

EDC 546
Community-Based Environmental Education
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction

Environmental education is most effective when it is placed-based and rooted in the issues and problems of the children's community. The issues and strategies of community-based education will be practiced through a weeklong workshop at AMC's the Highland Center in New Hampshire's White Mountains. The course will examine thriving examples of vibrant community-based environmental education around the country, and show how to align local curricula with the state frameworks through environmentally integrated curricula.

Section A: David Sobel, Delia Clark, and Bo Hoppin
Time: Monday - Friday,
June 28, 12:00 noon - July 2, 12:00 noon
Location: AMC's the Highland Center,
White Mountains, New Hampshire
Maximum: 20
(2 seats reserved for ED students,
2 seats reserved for ES students)
Credits: 2

EDC 566
Connecting Science Curriculum and Your Local Resources
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction

How can you take advantage of the natural and built resources in your backyard to teach science? This course will focus on using local community resources as a curricular lens. Process strategies, content knowledge, and interdisciplinary connections will be investigated. Students will have opportunities to experiment in the field, research content information, and modify science units to integrate state and local science standards, service learning, and place-based inquiry learning practices.

Section A: TBA
Time: Monday - Friday, July 5 - 9, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: Antioch and Keene environs
Maximum: 18
(4 seats reserved for ED students,
2 seats reserved for ES students)
Credits: 2

EDC 620
Content Mentoring
Content Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Required of and Restricted to Experienced Educator School Choice Cluster.

This course offers students in the Experienced Educator School Choice cluster a chance to deepen content knowledge specifically related to your school context or your Master's Project. Students must submit a proposal for Content Mentoring to their advisor for approval prior to registering for this class. If you are not planning to complete your Content Mentoring requirement in the summer of 2004, you will need to speak to your advisor about requesting an extension for this course. Please consult your Program Handbook for more details.

Section A: School Choice Cluster
Time: TBA
Maximum: 15
Credits: 2

EDC 520A
Curriculum Theory and Applications
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Required of and restricted to continuing Experienced Educator Professional Development concentration students.

This course will include an overview of classroom curriculum theory and practice. Given all we know about the world inside and outside the school, we will, both individually and as a group: 1) articulate what is quality curriculum, 2) determine how to design quality curriculum to achieve desired learning results, and 3) produce exemplars of curricula that make these ideas concrete and practical. During class sessions we will engage in large group discussion, small group work, individual reflection, and curriculum project design.

PD Concentration
All Continuing clusters: Keene
Section A: Tom Julius and Judy Coven
Time: Wednesday - Friday, June 30 - July 2,
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Maximum: 35
Credits: 2

EDC 651
The Dancing Classroom:
Dance Education for Grades Pre-K Through 8
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction

Learn to lead singing games, social and display dances, and creative movement explorations with children. This course provides theory and practice for integrating dance/movement into the education of children, and curriculum frameworks for a comprehensive program of dance education. No dance experience necessary.

Section A: Kari Smith
Time: Monday - Friday, June 14 - June 18,
8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

EDT 550A
Education By Design (EBD) Institute - Level 1
Competency Area: Theoretical & Philosophical Foundations of Education

EBD institutes are truly “an experience.” In our EBD level 1, 2, and 3 programs, educators participate in an Education by Designª classroom. Participants explore problem-based, experiential, collaborative, and standards-driven learning. They examine how these components can be successfully integrated, focusing on the role of the teacher in the areas of designing curriculum, guiding students, and assessing performance. They develop the knowledge skills, and dispositions needed to build and maintain a dynamic and responsive classroom.

EDB Level 1 examines strategies for:
¥ developing the classroom as a collaborative problem-solving community,
¥ using the experiential learning cycle,
¥ setting and maintaining standards for quality work,
¥ targeting Critical Skills within curriculum frameworks,
¥ designing challenges that are connected to the
subject matter and that provide a meaningful context for learning,
¥ using simple performance-based assessment tools,
¥ planning and structuring student exhibitions of learning,
and
¥ guiding reflection & debriefing processes.

Section A: TBA
Time: Monday - Friday, July 12 - July 16,
8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: Keene
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 2

EDT 552
Education By Design (EBD) Institute - Level 2
Course Cancelled (05/24/04)
Competency Area: Theoretical & Philosophical Foundations of Education

The Level II Critical Skills Institutes (CSI) builds upon the foundations of the Level I Institute and the experiences of the EBD teacher. Over three days participants will deepen their understanding of and practical experience with the design and assessment of problem-based challenges as structured by the Experiential Learning Cycle. These challenges will target and track student growth toward specific desired outcomes through at least two ÒlinkedÓ experiences. Focus is on the planning and implementation of more academically rigorous challenges and on increasingly comprehensive tools for assessing student work.

Students will learn how to:
¥ create lessons which link subjects and curriculum to
real-world experiences.
¥ build formative and summative assessments to effectively measure student learning.
¥ expand their repertoire of tools and techniques for
building and maintaining a classroom community which encourages collaboration.
¥ use reflection as a key component in teaching and learning.
¥ improve classroom coaching skills to guide their students through the Experiential Learning Cycle and the
reflection process.
Students will create:
¥ two fully designed, standards-based, linked challenges.
¥ assessment tools for both products and skills/dispositions.
¥ new tools and strategies for building and maintaining the
collaborative learning community, including methods for
addressing Òsticky situationsÓ as they arise.
¥ activities to help students connect new learning to
previous experience through reflection.

Section A: TBA
Time: Monday - Wednesday, July 12 - July 14,
8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: Keene
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 2

EDC 643
Exploring Book Arts and Curriculum
Course Cancelled (05/17/04)
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction

In this hands-on course we will create a journal to hold course notes, investigate paper decorating techniques, and develop book models that can be used to encourage and develop literacy and language skills; study the natural world or specific environments; investigate local history; explore geometry; and encourage reflection in the classroom. Individually or in teams, students will explore, develop and present to the class a curricular unit using book arts techniques to achieve a standard or learning goal related to their interests.

Section A: Susan Bonthron
Time: Tuesday - Friday, July 6 - July 9,
8:00 am - 12:00 pm
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

EDC 624
The First Six Weeks of School:
Building the Foundation for a Successful Year
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction

Using the book, The First Six Weeks of School (Denton and Kriete) as a starting point, participants will have opportunities to plan for the all-important opening weeks of school in their own classrooms. Topics to be considered will include establishing routines, rules and consequences, creating a sense of belonging and significance for all students, and introducing academic curriculum while simultaneously building the social skills necessary for successful learning in an active and interactive environment. Approaches to classroom management in this course are based upon the work of Rudolph Driekurs and Jane Nelson and approaches such as democratic classrooms and The Responsive Classroom.

Section A: Sara Fiarman
Time: Tuesday - Friday, July 6 - July 9,
1:00 - 5:00 pm
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

EDC 645
Folk Arts of Early America and the British Isles,
for the Classroom - A Field Study
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Restricted to Education Department students.

Attend a weeklong folk camp for people of all ages. Observe and participate while Master Folklorists teach groups of children traditional dances, songs, crafts, stories and rituals. Participate in these folk traditions at an adult level, yourself. “Collect” by audio recording, interviewing, note-taking and experiencing traditional activities. Meet daily in a teacher seminar to reflect on your observations and experiences, to share newly collected activities, and to explore classroom implementation. Course fee: $610 for program, food, and lodging.

Section A: Jane Miller (and folklorists)
Time: Saturday - Saturday, July 31 - August 7
Location: Ogontz Center, Lyman, New Hampshire
Maximum: 8
Credits: 2

EDC 550A
Integrated Arts II: Circus Dreams
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction

Ever wanted to run away and join the circus? Probably...and most kids would love to do that too. Here's your chance. In this course, we'll explore the theme of “Circus” as a fun vehicle that can bring together diverse areas of study and one that can encourage children's self-expression and self-confidence. We'll push back the desks and delve into puppetry (from giant to tiny), clowning, movement, storytelling, painting, prop construction, etc. as we create a circus performance and consider ways of integrating a variety of arts and crafts with a variety of curriculum disciplines. No fleas please...well maybe!!!

Section A: Ron LaBrusciano
Time: Monday - Friday, June 7 - 11, 1:00 - 4:15 pm
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student) Credits: 1

ED 694
Internship, Science/Environmental Education
Course Added (05/17/04)

Sec A

EDC 653
Life Down Under!: Soil Invertebrates in the Classroom
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction

Centipedes, earthworms, earwigs, millipedes, mites, slugs, sow bugs and more! Investigate the amazing communities of life that stir beneath your feet. Learn about the invertebrates that live under logs, leaves, bark, bricks, boards and other damp and dark microhabitats. Connect the study of local soil invertebrates to literacy and math curricula. Find out how you - and the kids you teach - can become experts on arthropods both inside and out the classroom doors.

Section A: Christine Payack
Time: Monday - Friday, June 7 - 11, 4:45 - 8:00 pm
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

ED 699C Master's Project Continuation
Required for all students continuing a Master's Project for which they have previously registered.

Students must register for Master's Project continuation every semester until the project has been completed and signed off by your Master's Project reader. Enrollment in Master's Project Continuation confers half-time status for Financial Aid and loan deferment purposes through July 25.

Section A: Education Faculty
Credits: uncredited

EDC 527
Place-Based Service Learning -
Connecting Classrooms to the Community
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction

This course will examine service learning as an integrative context for learning and building community relationships. We will identify the essential elements of service learning and gain insight of possible service learning projects that incorporate multiple subject areas while exploring Keene Public Lands. During the course we will participate in service learning, identify community needs, and plan and develop an interdisciplinary service-learning project that will help meet New Hampshire State Frameworks.

Section A: TBA
Time: Tuesday - Friday, July 6 - 9, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Maximum 18
(4 seats reserved for ED students,
2 seats reserved for ES students)
Credits: 2

EDC 641
Professional Standards Portfolio
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Required of and restricted to Experienced Educator students.

This course will provide students with the opportunity to reflect on their professional strengths and weaknesses. We will examine, annotate, and organize both professional and academic artifacts as evidence of professional proficiency. Proficiencies may be defined from national, state, or district-created standards. Final compilation of this portfolio will be expected in the Spring semester Professional Standards Portfolio II course.

Section A: Tom Julius and Jane Miller
Time: Monday, June 28, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm,
and Tuesday, June 29, 8:00 am - 1:30 pm
Maximum: 18
Credits: 1

EDC 611
Recrafting Curriculum Using Problem-Based Learning
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Priority to Experienced Educator students.

The fundamental premise that underlies this course is that if we aspire for students to become confident and effective thinkers and problem solvers, we need to present curriculum in ways that specifically target and develop these skills. This course will introduct the design and use of three distinct models of problem-based challenges - academic challenges, challenge scenarios, and real-life problems - strategies by which a variety of problems are solved by students working as individuals or groups within the classroom. Ways in which these challenges can be used to simultaneiously target school/district goals and state-mandated curriculum frameworks will also be examined.

Section A: Peter Eppig
Time: Tuesday - Friday, July 6 - 9,
8:00 am - 12:00 pm
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

ED 690
SIS: Supervised Independent Study

If you are planning an independent study, please register for an SIS on your registration form. However, an SIS contract must be submitted to the Registrar's Office by July 10, 2004 in order for it to appear on your schedule or transcript. Please be sure to specify on the contract if the SIS will be used to fulfill a competency area or serve as a required course substitute, or as an elective. Contracts received after the July 10 deadline will be returned to you for registration in a subsequent semester (additional costs may apply). Credits will not appear on your schedule until the SIS contract(s) has been submitted to the Registrar's Office, thus affecting your enrollment status and perhaps your financial aid eligibility.

Credits: variable

Social Studies: Inquiry
Approaches and the Core Curriculum

Social Studies methodology is presented as five separate courses. The five courses will be integrated in style and content, but the individual courses may be taken separately. Candidates for teacher certification are encouraged to take at least two credits in the Social Studies methodology, with at least one of them having a history focus.

1. EDC 658
The Cemetery Quest: Utilizing Burial Grounds as Educational Resources
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction

The Cemetery Quest is an interdisciplinary, standards-based unit that teaches 4th through 8th grade students to see cemeteries as doorways into community history. Students photograph headstones, collect headstone data, interpret data, “adopt” families, and study them using primary and secondary sources. As their culminating activity, students create a treasure hunt that teaches and shares the things they have learned. In this class we will work together, as students, to create a Keene Cemetery Quest.

Section A: Steven Glazer
Time: Tuesday - Friday, July 6 - July 9,
1:00 - 5:00 pm
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

2. EDC 655
Children's Literature and the Social Studies Curriculum
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction

This course will connect children's literature to elementary school social studies content and concepts. By reading and analyzing fiction and nonfiction books we will explore themes ranging from community to immigration, United States reports to world cultures. Standards based planning and child centered learning will be emphasized. Participants will design thematic social studies lessons based on children's books.

Section A: Nancy Ancharski
Time: Monday - Friday, June 14 - 18,
4:45 - 8:00 pm
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

3. EDC 528
Ecology of Imagination in Childhood
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Required of and Priority to Education - Science & Environmental Education students.

This course investigates the developmental basis of environmental education and social studies by examining recurrent themes from children's play around the world. Making forts, hunting and gathering, constructing small worlds, going on adventures, and fantasy play are children's instinctive ways of being in the natural world and these activities can be used as the basis for curriculum. Using some of these techniques as planning tools, we will explore curriculum activities that start in Keene neighborhoods and spread out into the surrounding hills and streams.

Section A: David Sobel
Time: Monday - Friday, June 21 - 25,
8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

4. EDC 618
From Sheep to Shawl
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction

The process of turning wool into cloth is an important aspect of life in many cultures around the world in the present day as well as throughout history. This process can become the focus of rich studies for elementary children. While participants explore the possibilities for integrated curriculum, they will experience for themselves all of the steps from sheep to shawl, including carding, spinning, making and using natural dyes, and weaving. Required materials fee of $25.00 payable to the Education Department prior to the first day of class.

Section A: Judy Coven
Time: Monday - Friday, June 7 - 11,
8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Maximum: 16
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

5. EDC 529
Placed-Based Social Studies:
Teaching History with Local Resources
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction

Doing local history in and out of the classroom connects students with their communities in a meaningful fashion, bringing to life the abstract concepts and ideas traditionally covered in the history textbook. This course explores models for doing local history projects as part of a standards-based curriculum and gives students the tools to be enablers in their own classrooms. Students will combine hands-on activities involving oral interviews, writing and art with curriculum mapping and the nuts and bolts of classroom management. The course will involve a few field trips to Guilford, Vermont.

Section A: Jennifer Kramer
Time: Monday - Friday, June 28 - July 2,
1:00 - 4:30 pm
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

EDC 532A
Storytelling: Stories in the Classroom
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Priority to Integrated Learning & Waldorf program students

In this course we bring the focus back to the oral and aural arts and their primary role in the classroom. Students will explore memories and family stories to find tellable tales, and discuss the possibilities for this kind of work in a classroom setting. We will learn how to select and find folktales and local tales to enliven and personalize other curriculum areas. And together we will consider children as storytellers and story creators, finding ways to create an atmosphere of play, trust and acceptance in which every child will be able to share the story they want to tell.

Section A: Becky Graber
Time: Monday - Friday, June 14 - 18,
1:00 - 4:15 pm
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

EDC 650
Teacher-Created Web Pages that Support Instruction
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction

The World Wide Web is playing an ever-increasing role in education, but often it is only used in a consumer role. How can educators and their students become producers of Web content, and how can this facilitate the instruction and learning processes? This course will prepare educators to create their own web pages and enable them to instruct students in the creation of their own pages using a web-page editor. We will examine the many roles that web pages can play in helping teachers support student learning, facilitate communication with parents, and collaborate with colleagues in education. Existing school websites will be critiqued and exemplars identified. Participants will learn how to use Netscape Composer to create such web pages, and will produce actual pages or templates for future use. They will also explore free online Web-page creation and hosting services that are specifically targeted at providing resources for education. The process for uploading web pages and maintaining current websites will be discussed. Participants must have access to an online computer with Netscape Communicator V. 4.7 (minimum); Netscape 7 (preferable). Both are downloadable at no cost.

Section A: Peter Monether
Time Monday - Friday, June 28 - July 2,
1:00 am - 4:30 pm
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

EDP 625
Teaching & Learning in Honduras
Course Cancelled (06/04/04)
Priority to Education students
Competency Areas: Education & Social Policy, Curriculum & Instruction
Please Note: Students must register for this course by the summer registration deadline, April 23. Attendance at all pre-trip meetings is mandatory. A portion of the fee will be due at first pre-trip meeting. Two pre-trip meetings will be scheduled. Students who fail to come to the 2nd pre-trip meeting will forfeit their deposit and position in the course. Students on the waitlist are strongly encouraged to come to first meeting.

El Rosario, Honduras is a rural, poor, agricultural community of about 400 families. Americans Caring, Teaching and Sharing (ACTS) has been providing medical services and building relationships with the people of El Rosario for the last 16 years. ACTS is now engaged in developing educational opportunities for the children of El Rosario and the surrounding villages. Students in this field course will spend time in the different village schools, work with Honduran teachers, plan after-school activities for the children, and explore the workings of a third world educational system. Students will also have the opportunity to bring their experience back to their own schools in an effort to create a bridge to the Honduran schools. Knowledge of Spanish, while helpful, is not necessary.

Cost approximately $1325. ACTS is the fiscal agent for this trip; because of pre-trip expenses, a portion of the fee will be due at the first pre-trip meeting. Fee will include airfare, room and board, and transportation in Honduras.

Section A: Lisa Bisceglia
Time: TBA 2 pre-trip meetings and
TBA (study trip)
Location: Pre-trip meetings,
TBA and El Rosario, Honduras (study trip)
Maximum: 4
Credits 2

Entering Year Round Waldorf Program

EDT 582
Anthroposophy: Projective Geometry
Competency Area: Theoretical & Philosophical Foundations of Education
Restricted to first year Waldorf students; others by written permission of Program Director attached to or on registration form.

Through the development of freehand and exact geometrical drawings, students will experience geometry as inner movement and as a process of disciplined imaginative thinking. Students will be introduced to the teaching of geometry from grade 1 to 12.

Section A: Hanneke van Riel
Time: Mondays & Tuesdays, 2:00 - 3:50 pm, and
Monday, July 19, 7:15-9:30 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

Bothmer Gymnastics
Restricted to first year Waldorf students; others by written permission of Program Director. It is not necessary to write this course on your registration form. Students will be assigned by the department.

This course is an introduction to Bothmer Gymnastics, a series of exercises created by Count von Bothmer out of indications given by Rudolf Steiner. Through this new living form of exercise, students will explore their relationship to space and will work to find the balance between two kinds of forces: the centric, earthy forces and the peripheral forces. This course will also cover games and recreation activities essential for the class teacher during recreation and recess periods to build children's social skills and physical coordination.

Section A: Kim John Payne
Time: Tuesdays, 8:45 - 10:00 am
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: uncredited

EDC 540
Clay Modeling I
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Restricted to first year Waldorf students; others by written permission of the Program Director attached to or on registration form.

This course introduces students to the activity of clay modeling/sculpture in its fundamental artistic principles. The importance and relevance of these activities as supportive of development are explored. Curriculum and temperament references and indications are given.

Section A: Patrick Stolfo
Time: Mondays, 4:00 - 6:00 pm,
Tuesdays, 10:30 am - 12:15 pm, and
Wednesdays, 2:00 - 3:50 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

EDC 543
Eurythmy I
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Restricted to first year Waldorf students; others by written permission of Program Director attached to or on registration form.

This course is designed for the student's own artistic development, which is of the utmost importance when working in Waldorf education. The goals are to acquaint the student with this new art and through doing it, to come to a new relationship to space. It is hoped that the student will come to a realization that the space around us has a living, dynamic quality, and this reality can lead into self-development.

Section A: Cezary Ciaglo
Time: Tuesdays, 4:00 - 6:00 pm, and
Wednesdays & Fridays,
7:25 - 8:40 am
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

EDT 583
Evolving Consciousness I
Competency Area: Theoretical & Philosophical Foundations of Education
Restricted to first year Waldorf students; others by written permission of Program Director attached to or on registration form.

This two-part course is an introduction to Anthroposophy, with emphasis on conscious self-development, esoteric history and evolution. This session will focus on one of Rudolf Steiner's basic books, Esoteric Science, in particular the chapters on the essential nature of humankind and the attainment of supersensible knowledge. Particular emphasis will be placed on the path of creativity, which can stimulate social and individual change. Students are to read Chapters 1, 2, 3 & 5 of Esoteric Science prior to the first class.
Texts: Esoteric Science, Background Reading: Theosophy, Knowledge of Higher Worlds, all by Rudolf Steiner

Section A: Karine Munk Finser
Time: Thursdays, 10:30 am - 12:15 pm, and
Thursdays & Fridays, 2:00 - 3:50 pm,
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

EDT 584
Human Development
Competency Area: Theoretical & Philosophical Foundations of Education
Partially fulfills Human Development requirement.
Restricted to first year Waldorf students; others by written permission of Program Director attached to or on registration form.

This course will cover the basis of child development from birth to adulthood. We will explore growth patterns and nodal points of physiological and psychological changes as described by Rudolf Steiner. We will strive to awaken through this study an appreciation for the why, the what, the when and the how of the Waldorf approach to teaching, coming to the realization that when the teacher is grounded in these principles, his/her own artistic/creative involvement becomes the active therapeutic agent behind this Waldorf methodology.

Section A: Georg Locher
Time: Wednesdays - Fridays, 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

Singing I
Restricted to first year Waldorf students; others by written permission of Program Director. It is not necessary to write this course on your registration form. Students will be assigned by the department.

This course offers an introduction to music in the Waldorf School. We will discover some of the ways music can knit us together as a school community and foster the healthy development of the child. Areas covered include: an overview of the music curriculum K-8, roles of class teacher and music teacher, practice in leading music activities, and methods for enlivening the voice and awakening the ear to tone.

Section A: Helena Niiva-Sawyer
Time: Wednesdays - Fridays, 8:45 - 10:00 am
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: uncredited

EDC 541
Speech I
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Restricted to first year Waldorf students; others by written permission of Program Director attached to or on registration form.

This course is designed to enable students to approach a text as a lyric, epic or dramatic gesture, and then to speak out of this gesture, using the proper breathing, imagination, movement and form. Speech forms to be explored include lyric poetry, epic poetry, stories, ballads, fables and drama.

Section A: Jeremiah Turner
Time: Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays,
10:30 am - 12:15 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

Finishing Year Round Waldorf Program

EDP 592
The Adolescent
Competency Area: Education & Social Policy
Restricted to finishing Waldorf students; others by written permission of Program Director attached to or on registration form.
Note: This course is an elective.

Beginning with reflections upon our own teenage years, we will explore the nature of adolescence - its physiology and psychology - and the social issues that are thrown into stark relief at this age. In the light of these explorations, we can then examine the unique ways in which the Waldorf high school curriculum, building on the elementary school program, is designed to meet the spiritual, psychological, and social needs of teenagers. The course will proceed in seminar format, starting with lectures that will frame the context for discussion. Students will be asked to make individual presentations on various social and psychological aspects of adolescent life and culture. Topics will include adolescent social development, different learning styles and disabilities, peer counseling and the changing role of parents, the teenagers' needs for fashion, anonymity, loneliness and the telephone.

Section A: Douglas Gerwin
Time: Wednesdays, 7:15 - 9:30 pm, and
Thursdays & Fridays, 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 30
Credits: 1

Arts to Accompany Foundations of Human Experience
Restricted to those taking Foundations; others by written permission of Program Director. It is not necessary to write this course on your registration form. Students will be assigned by the department.

This course will explore themes covered in Foundations of Human Experience with particular emphasis on watercolor painting, clay modeling, physiology and anatomy.

Section A: Georg Locher
Time: Mondays, 4:00 - 6:00 pm, and
Thursdays, 10:30 am - 12:15 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: uncredited

EDT 607
Foundations of Human Experience
Competency Area: Theoretical & Philosophical Foundations of Education
Required of and Restricted to finishing Year Round Waldorf students; others by written permission of Program Director attached to or on registration form.

This course will include a detailed seminar study of Steiner's 14 lectures entitled Foundations of Human Experience given to the first Waldorf teachers. The text provides the philosophical foundation for the Waldorf approach, characterizing the major principles from which the Waldorf method of teaching children of all ages has developed. The course will be augmented by a special consideration of rhythms in education and life, and by an artistic component. Students are required to read the text before the course begins.

Section A: Georg Locher
Time: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 10:30 am - 12:15 pm, and
Thursdays, 2:00 -3:50 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 2

Games
Restricted to finishing Year Round Waldorf students; others by written permission of Program Director. It is not necessary to write this course on your registration form. Students will be assigned by the department.

This non-credit course covers games and recreational activities essential for the class teacher during recreation and recess periods to build children's social skills and physical coordination.

Section A: Kim John Payne
Time: Tuesdays, 2:00 - 3:50 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: uncredited

ED 699C
Master's Project Continuation
Required for all students continuing a Master's Project for which they have previously registered.

Section W: Education Faculty
Credits: uncredited

EDC 535
Music Curriculum
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Restricted to finishing Year Round Waldorf students; others by written permission of Program Director attached to or on registration form.

This course will offer a continuation of music in the Waldorf school. We will discover some of the ways music can knit us together as a school community and foster the healthy development of the child. Areas covered include: an overview of the music curriculum K-8, roles of class teacher and music teacher, practice in leading musical activities, and methods for enlivening the voice and awakening the ear to tone.

Section A: Helena Niiva-Sawyer
Time: Wednesdays - Fridays, 7:25 - 8:40 am, and
Fridays, 2:00 - 3:50 pm,
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

EDP 624
Personal and Organizational Renewal Institute
Competency Area: Social and Educational Policy
Restricted to Finishing Year Round and Summer Sequence Waldorf students; others by written permission of Program Director. May be taken instead of EDP 605 Social and Organizational Issues.

See course description below in Optional Institutes

EDC 536
Science Curriculum
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Required of and restricted to finishing Year Round Waldorf students; others by written permission of Program Director attached to or on registration form.

Stephen Bloomquist will offer a course to introduce philosophy, methodology and content of the physical science curriculum in the upper elementary grades for Waldorf schools. We will look at the methodology and practical aspects of teaching. Specifically, we will look at sound, light, heat, magnetism, electricity, mechanics and fluid mechanics; doing record sensitive activities, demonstrations and experiments. We will also introduce students to the basis of and content for teaching inorganic chemistry in the 7th grade and organic chemistry in the 8th grade.

Section A: Stephen Bloomquist
Time: Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m., and Wednesdays, 8:45 - 10:00 am
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

Singing II
Restricted to finishing Waldorf students; others by written permission of Program Director. It is not necessary to write this course on your registration form. Students will be assigned by the department.

This course offers a continuation of Singing I's exploration of music in the Waldorf School. We will discover some of the ways music can knit us together as a school community and foster the healthy development of the child. Areas covered include: an overview of the music curriculum K-8, roles of class teacher and music teacher, practice in leading music activities, and methods for enlivening the voice and awakening the ear to tone.

Section A: Helena Niiva-Sawyer
Time: Wednesdays, 2:00 - 3:50 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: uncredited

EDC 545
Speech II
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Required of and restricted to finishing Year Round Waldorf students; others by written permission of Program Director attached to or on registration form.

This course will refine students' speaking skills and focus on speech exercises, poetry and storytelling. Classroom verse, stories and poetry appropriate to the curriculum will be used.

Section A: Jeremiah Turner
Time: Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and
Fridays, 8:45 - 10:00 am
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

Optional Institutes:
(Finishing Year-Round students may choose one of the following three institutes: Puppetry and the Art of the Story Apron, The Contemporary Child and Adolescent, or Personal and Organizational Renewal: From Survival to Success, in addition to their regular courses)

Puppetry and the Art of the Story Apron

The story apron is a versatile puppetry medium frequently used in pedagogical, therapeutic and performance settings. Wearing the “stage” the storyteller can easily bring a puppet presentation into classrooms, clinics or libraries for a delightful interactive experience with the audience. Gifted performer Jennifer Aguirre joins Janene Ping in teaching this class, where participants will create a story apron and its accompanying puppets while learning the arts of fabric dyeing, wet and dry felting, puppet making and performing. The puppets you will create are yours to take home. Materials fee is $45.

Section A: Janene Ping and Jennifer Aquirre
Time: Monday - Thursday, July 5-8,
8:30 am - 5:00 pm, and
Friday, July 9, 8:30 am - 12:45 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: uncredited

The Contemporary Child & Adolescent

The overall theme for this workshop is the social life of the child and teenager in which we will explore their emotional and behavioral responses and how we as teachers and therapists can deepen our understanding of the world our young people face. We will move from the soul-spiritual to the practical helping gesture in exploring such issues as social exclusion, addiction, trauma & stress, ADHD, non-verbal learning disorder and oppositional behavior. Each theme will be approached on a developmental basis, tracing these issues from the early elementary through to the high school years. This will be a facilitated response based workshop guided by the practical needs and questions the participants bring from their work with children and adolescents.

Section A: Kim John Payne
Time: Monday - Thursday, July 5-8,
8:30 am - 5:00 pm, and
Friday, July 9, 8:30 am - 12:45 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: uncredited

EDP 624
Personal and Organizational Renewal Institute
Competency Area: Education and Social Policy
Restricted to finishing Waldorf Students; others by written permission of Program Director attached to or on registration form.

Schools face many challenges today. If one “peels the onion” one finds that behind the external issues of deficits, low salaries, interpersonal conflict and lack of support for leadership, there is often an underlying need to rekindle the sources of inspiration and find a more collaborative approach. By bringing together the various groups represented in a typical school, this course attempts to model new ways of working together. Our classrooms feature the magic of seeing the “whole child”; can our organizations learn to embrace whole systems thinking? This course is for parents, teachers, administrators and board members interested in school renewal. Participants will explore how personal well being affects organizational health and how the organizational structure of our schools can enhance or diminish individual accomplishment.

Some of the topics to be covered include: group dynamics, leadership styles, working with conflict, communication, mediation, artistic practice and finding the balance between personal and professional demands. These themes will be supported through exercises from “Eurythmy in the Workplace”. Participants will take up some of the current issues facing our schools and design strategies to work toward closer collaboration. We will also do social color exercises in painting. Guest presenters: Karine Munk Finser, Trauger Groh.

Section A: Torin Finser and Leonore Russell
Time: Monday - Thursday, July 5-8,
8:30 am - 5:00 pm, and
Friday, July 9, 8:30 am - 12:45 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 3

Entering Summer Sequence

EDT 582
Anthroposophy: Projective Geometry
Competency Area: Theoretical & Philosophical Foundations of Education
Restricted to entering Waldorf Summer Sequence students; others by written permission of Program Director attached to or on registration form.

Section B: Hanneke van Riel
Time: Mondays & Tuesdays, 4:00 - 6:00 pm, and
Monday, July 26, 7:15 - 9:30 p.m.
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

Bothmer Gymnastics
Restricted to entering Waldorf Summer Sequence students; others by written permission of Program Director. It is not necessary to write this course on your registration form. Students will be assigned by the department.

Section B: Kim John Payne
Time: Thursdays, 8:45 - 10:00 am
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: uncredited

EDC 543
Eurythmy I
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Restricted to entering Waldorf Summer Sequence students; others by written permission of Program Director attached to or on registration form.

Section B: Cezary Ciaglo
Time: Mondays, Tuesdays
Wednesdays & Fridays, 8:45 - 10:00 am
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

Games
Restricted to entering Waldorf students; others by written permission of Program Director. It is not necessary to write this course on your registration form. Students will be assigned by the department.

This non-credit course covers games and recreational activities essential for the class teacher during recreation and recess periods to build children's social skills and physical coordination.

Section B: Kim John Payne
Time: Fridays, 2:00 pm - 3:50 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: uncredited

EDT 584
Human Development
Competency Area: Theoretical & Philosophical Foundations of Education
Partially fulfills Human Development requirement.
Restricted to entering Waldorf Summer Sequence students; others by written permission of Program Director attached to or on registration form.

Section B: Arthur Auer
Time: Wednesdays - Fridays 4:00 - 6:00 pm, and
Fridays, 7:25 - 8:40 am
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

EDC 544
Painting I
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Restricted to Waldorf Summer Sequence students; others by written permission of Program Director attached to or on registration form.

Students in this course will develop experience with colors and their relationships to an inner experience that can be objectively observed. The watercolor process, as used in Waldorf schools, provides a key to the artistic process that is an integral and necessary part of human development.

Section A: Karine Munk Finser
Time: Mondays - Wednesdays, 2:00 - 3:50 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

EDP 604A
Research for Personal and Social Change
Competency Area: Education & Social Policy
Restricted to entering Waldorf Summer Sequence students; others by written permission of Program Director attached to or on registration form.

This course will work with research methods based upon the essential view of the human being and the basic exercises outlined in Esoteric Science by Rudolf Steiner. We will design and discuss research projects to be completed by students during the following school year, and explore suitable research methods. Discussions will include aspects of evolving consciousness and how personal change can influence social change in school communities. Required reading before the first session: chapters 1, 2, 3 & 5 of Esoteric Science. Students are also expected to bring a 2-3 page typed review of the second chapter to the first class.

Section A: Torin Finser
Time: Mondays - Thursdays ,10:30 am - 12:15 pm,
and Wednesdays, July 14 and 21, 7:15 - 9:30 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 2

Singing I
Restricted to entering Waldorf Summer Sequence students; others by written permission of Program Director.
It is not necessary to write this course on your registration form. Students will be assigned by the department.

This course offers an introduction to music in the Waldorf school. We will discover some of the ways music can knit us together as a school community and foster the healthy development of the child. Areas covered include methods for enlivening the voice and awakening the ear to tone.

Section B: Helena Niiva Sawyer
Time: Thursdays, 2:00 - 3:50 pm, and
Fridays, 10:30 am -12:15 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: uncredited

EDC 541
Speech I
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Restricted to entering Waldorf Summer Sequence students; others by written permission of Program Director attached to or on registration form.

Section B: Jeremiah Turner
Time: Mondays - Thursdays, 7:25 - 8:40 am
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

Finishing Summer Sequence

Section A: Douglas Gerwin
Time: Wednesdays, 7:15 - 9:30 pm, and
Thursdays & Fridays, 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 30
Credits: 1

This course will explore themes covered in Foundations of Human Experience with particular emphasis on watercolor painting, physiology and anatomy.

Section B: Patrick Stolfo
Time: Mondays, 2:00 pm - 3:50 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: uncredited

EDC 571
Drawing
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Restricted to Finishing Summer Sequence Elementary Waldorf Students; others by written permission of Program Director attached to or on registration form.

This drawing course covers form drawing, blackboard drawing and crayoning based upon the changing needs of children in grades 1 - 8.

Section A: Elizabeth Auer
Time: Mondays - Wednesdays 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

Eurythmy
Restricted to Finishing Summer Sequence Waldorf students; others by written permission of Program Director. It is not necessary to write this course on your registration form. Students will be assigned by department.

Section A: Cezary Ciaglo
Time: Mondays & Tuesdays, 7:25 - 8:40 am
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: uncredited

EDT 607
Foundations of Human Experience
Competency Area: Theoretical & Philosophical Foundations of Education
Required of and Restricted to Finishing Summer Sequence Waldorf students; others by written permission of Program Director attached to or on registration form.

This course will include a detailed seminar study of Steiner's 14 lectures entitled Foundations of Human Experience given to the first Waldorf teachers. The text provides the philosophical foundation for the Waldorf approach, characterizing the major principles from which the Waldorf method of teaching children of all ages has developed. The course will be augmented by an artistic component. Students are required to read the text before the course begins.

Section B: Signe Motter and Patrick Stolfo
Time: Mondays - Wednesdays, 10:30 am - 12:15 pm,
and Thursdays, 8:45 - 10:00 am and 2:00 - 3:50 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 2

ED 699C
Master's Project Continuation

Required for all students continuing a Master's Project for which they have previously registered. Students must register for Master's Project Continuation every semester until the project has been completed and signed off by your Master's Project reader. Enrollment in Master's Project Continuation confers half-time status for Financial Aid and loan deferment purposes through July 25.

Section W: Education Faculty
Credits: Uncredited

EDC 570
Math and Reading
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Required of and restricted to Finishing Summer Sequence students; others by written permission of Program Director attached to or on registration form.

This course will cover methods of introducing and cultivating skills in mathematics and language arts from the Waldorf perspective in grades 1-8. The development of number concepts from the whole to the parts, and the emergence of reading from the writing process, will be presented. Practical activities and methods for developing skills in math and language arts will be shared.

Section A: Arthur Auer
Time: Mondays, July 12 and 19, 7:15 - 9:30 pm, and
Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 2:00 - 3:50 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

EDC 535
Music Curriculum
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Restricted to finishing Waldorf students; others by written permission of Program Director attached to or on registration form.

This course will cover a continuation of music in the Waldorf school. We will discover some of the ways music can knit us together as a school community and foster the healthy development of the child. Areas covered include: an overview of the music curriculum K-8, roles of class teacher and music teacher, practice in leading musical activities, and methods for enlivening the voice and awakening the ear to tone.

Section A: Helena Niiva-Sawyer
Time: Wednesdays - Fridays, 7:25 - 8:40 am, and
Fridays, 2:00-3:50 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

See course description below in Optional Institutes

EDP 605
Social and Organizational Issues
Competency Area: Education & Social Policy
Restricted to Finishing Year Round and Summer Sequence Waldorf students; others by written permission of Program Director. Not required if EDP 624 Personal and Organizational Renewal Institute is taken instead.

This course will focus on the organizational, social, administrative and fundraising aspects of Waldorf schools. We will address general questions on phases in organization and professional development, the role of the College of Teachers and that of non-faculty constituencies (parents, board, staff, etc.), mandate systems and the role of gift money and volunteers. The course will also include information-sharing and skill-building components around such issues as Collegial and parental relationships, decision-making processes, working with conflict, meeting effectiveness and budgetary processes. We will also do exercises in eurythmy to support social themes.

Section A: Torin Finser
Time: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, & Fridays,
8:45 - 10:00 am, and
Thursdays & Fridays 10:30 am - 12:15 pm, and
Sunday, July 11, 2:30-4:00 pm.
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 2

Optional Institutes:
(Finishing Summer Sequence students may choose one of the following three institutes: Puppetry and the Art of the Story Apron, The Contemporary Child and Adolescent, or Personal and Organizational Renewal: From Survival to Success, in addition to their regular courses)

Puppetry and the Art of the Story Apron

The story apron is a versatile puppetry medium frequently used in pedagogical, therapeutic and performance settings. Wearing the “stage” the storyteller can easily bring a puppet presentation into classrooms, clinics or libraries for a delightful interactive experience with the audience. Gifted performer Jennifer Aguirre joins Janene Ping in teaching this class where participants will create a story apron and its accompanying puppets while learning the arts of fabric dyeing, wet and dry felting, puppet making and performing. The puppets you will create are yours to take home. Materials fee is $45.

The Contemporary Child & Adolescent

Section A: Kim John Payne
Time: Monday - Thursday, July 5-8,
8:30 am - 5:00 pm, and
Friday, July 9, 8:30 am - 12:45 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: uncredited

Schools face many challenges today. If one “peels the onion” one finds that behind the external issues of deficits, low salaries, interpersonal conflict and lack of support for leadership, there is often an underlying need to rekindle the sources of inspiration and find a more collaborative approach. By bringing together the various groups represented in a typical school, this course attempts to model new ways of working together. Our classrooms feature the magic of seeing the “whole child” can our organizations learn to embrace whole systems thinking? This course is for parents, teachers, administrators and board members interested in school renewal. Participants will explore how personal well being affects organizational health and how the organizational structure of our schools can enhance or diminish individual accomplishment.

Section A: Torin Finser and Leonore Russell
Time: Monday - Thursday, July 5-8,
8:30 am - 5:00 pm, and
Friday, July 9, 8:30 am - 12:45 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 3