Education, Summer 2005 - Courses - Antioch University New England

Education Courses
Summer 2005

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

Experienced Ed., Integrated Learning & Science

EDP 632
Action Research
Competency Area: Education & Social Policy
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 G: School Choice 2005 Cluster 2:
Susan Dreyer Leon
Time: Monday - Friday, June 27 - July 1,
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 13 - 17,
4:45 - 8:00 pm, and
Monday - Friday, June 27 - July 1,
8:30 am - 12:00
Added 04/14/05:
Section B: Anne Kebler
Time: Monday - Friday, June 20 Ð 24, 4:45 Ð 8:00 pm and Monday - Friday, June 27 - July 1, 8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Maximum: 18
Changed (15/12/05) to:
Maximum 16
Credits: 2

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

Environmental education is most effective when it is place-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 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. Course fee: $925 for program, food, and lodging.

Section A: David Sobel, Delia Clark, and Bo Hoppin
Time: Monday - Friday, June 27 - 12:00 pm -
Friday, July 1, 12:00 pm
Location: AMC’s Highland Center,
White Mountains, NH
Maximum: 20
(2 seats reserved for ED students,
2 seats reserved for ES students)
Credits: 2

EDC 620
Content Mentoring
Competency 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 classroom or school change project. Work is to be completed independently over the course of the summer. 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 2005, you will need to speak to your advisor about requesting an extension for this course. Please consult your Program Handbook for more details.

Section G: School Choice 2005 Cluster 2: Staff
Time: TBA
Maximum: 15
Credits: 2

EDT 550A
Critical Skills Institute - Level 1
Competency Area: Theoretical & Philosophical Foundations of Education

Critical Skills Institutes are truly “an experience.” In our Level 1 Institutes, educators are immersed in a Critical Skills Classroom. Participants explore problem-based, experiential, collaborative, and standards-driven learning. They examine how these components can be successfully utilized to target Critical Skills development within curriculum frameworks 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 community.

Section A: Tom Julius
Time: Monday - Friday, July 11 - 15,
8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: Keene
Maximum: 18
Credits: 2

EDT 552
Critical Skills Institute - Level 2
Competency Area: Theoretical & Philosophical Foundations of Education

The Level II Critical Skills Institutes (CSI) builds upon the foundations of the Level 1 institute and the experiences of the Critical Skills 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 learning outcomes through at least two “linked experiences”. Focus is on the planning and implementation of more academically rigorous challenges and on increasingly comprehensive tools for assessing student work.

Section A: TBA
Time: Monday - Friday, July 11 - July 15,
8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: Keene
Maximum: 18
Credits: 2

EDC 520A
Curriculum Theory and Application
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Required of and restricted to continuing Experienced Educator 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.

Section F: Keene 2004 Cluster: Judy Coven
Time: Wednesday - Friday, June 29 - July 1,
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Maximum: 20
Credits: 2

EDC 651
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 exploration 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 6 - 10,
4:45 - 8:00 pm
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

EDC 667
Digital Imaging for the Classroom
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction

How can you put your digital camera to its best use in the classroom? What can you do to go beyond point, click, and print? Digital technology offers new and wonderful opportunities for creativity, expressions of learning, self-evaluation, reflection, and documentation of classroom work, but for most of us just taking a picture can be a challenge. Using a hands-on approach, we will learn to use digital cameras, digital video cameras, scanners, and image editing software to explore the fundamentals of digital imaging and digital image manipulation. The emphasis of this class will be both learning about digital equipment and integrating digital media into the curriculum in ways that merge the creative and technical processes. Digital formats for the final project may include digital scrapbooks or journals, students’ websites, electronic portfolios, student autobiographies, and printed collages. Basic computer knowledge is a prerequisite, but no prior experience with digital technology is necessary.

Section A: Aviva Cohen
Time: Tuesday - Friday, July 5 - 8,
8:00 am - 12:00
Maximum: 18
Changed (15/12/05) to:
Maximum 20
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

EDC 624
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 schools 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: Ellen Nam
Time: Tuesday - Friday, July 5 - 8,
1:00 - 5:00 pm
Maximum: 18
Changed (15/12/05) to:
Maximum 20
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits:

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: $727 for program, food, and lodging.

Section A: Jane Miller (and folklorists)
Time: Saturday - Saturday, July 9 - 16
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 we can encourage children’s self-expression and self-confidence. We’ll push back the desks and delve into circus skills, 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. A flea circus too? No fleas please well maybe!!!

Section A: Ron LaBrusciano
Time: Monday - Friday, June 6 -10,
1:00 - 4:15 pm
Maximum: 16
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

ED 694
Internship,
Science/Environmental Education

Internships are available in a variety of public and independent elementary schools and early childhood learning centers. Students are required to do supervised teaching in an approved elementary and/or early childhood setting.

Note: Please be sure to write the correct course number, the number of credits, and the site of your internship in the space provided on your registration form.

Section A: Education Faculty
Credits: variable

EDC 653
Life Down Under!:
Soil Invertebrates in the Classroom
Class Cancelled (05/12/05)
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 inverebrates to literacy and math curricula. Find out how you - and the kids you teach - can become experts of arthropods both inside and out the classroom doors.

Section A: Christine Payack
Time: Monday - Friday, June 20 - 24, 4:45 - 8:00 pm
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

ED 699B
Master’s Project
Required of all finishing students in the School Choice 2004 cluster.
Restricted to students who have completed EDP 599, Action Research.

The Master’s Project is a yearlong project of the student’s own choosing. Projects are expected to contribute to the improvement of educational practice, and may have either a research or a developmental focus. Each student must make a public presentation of the project in a symposium before the end of the program. In the past, symposia have consisted of workshops for other teachers, presentations to school boards or parents, discussions in staff meetings or with seminar participants. Projects may incorporate any variety of media, such as videotapes, slides, pictures, but must also have a written manuscript to accompany them.

Section E: School Choice 2004: Staff
Credits: 4

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 24.

Section A: Education Faculty
Credits: uncredited

ED 699S
Master’s Project Seminar
Restricted to Experienced Educator Students.

The Master’s Project Seminar is designed to assist teachers with the development of a publishable piece of writing about school change and school choice. Using a writers’ workshop format, students will assist one another with the development of ideas and the actual writing up of their research and practical experiences related to school change and choice, teacher leadership, and action research. We will investigate appropriate venues for publication and examine samples of different styles of published teacher writing. It is expected that all students will submit a piece of writing for publication as a result of the course.

Section E: School Choice 2004 Cluster:
Susan Dreyer Leon
Time: Monday - Friday, June 27 - July 1,
2:00 - 7:00 pm
Maximum: 18
Credits: 2

EDC 669
Picture Books in the Classroom
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction.

In this course we will explore the delights and great potential of picture books in an educational setting through the lenses of narrative, pictorial and design elements. Participants will learn how to craft standards-based lessons using picture books, including strategies for engaging students in substantial conversation and activities that foster the development of vocabulary, content knowledge, critical thinking, visual literacy and communication skills.

Section A: Susan Hessey
Time: Monday - Friday, June 20 - 24,
8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

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 F: Keene 2004 Cluster: Jane Miller
Time: Monday, June 27, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, and
Tuesday, June 28, 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 introduce 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 simultaneously target school/district goals and state-mandated curriculum frameworks will also be examined.

Section A: Peter Eppig
Time: Tuesday - Friday, July 5 - 8,
8:00 am - 12:00 pm
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

EDC 672
Responsive Classroom Institute
Course Added 04/14/05
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Restricted to Education Department students.

The Responsive Classroom¨ is an approach to teaching and learning that fosters safe, challenging, and joyful classrooms and schools, kindergarten through eighth grade. Developed by classroom teachers, it consists of practical strategies for bringing together social and academic learning throughout the school day. The social curriculum is as important as the academic curriculum. In a Responsive Classroom, how children learn is as important as what they learn-- process and content go hand in hand. In addition, knowing the children we teach - individually, culturally, and developmentally - is as important as knowing the content we teach. Teaching practices that will be modelled and instructed include Morning Meeting, Rules and Logical Consequences, Guided Discovery, Academic Choice, Classroom Organization and Family Communication Strategies Enrollment for this class will be limited. Four seats are available for students willing to assist with set up on the prior Sunday, clean up on Friday, and institute logistics during the week. If the Institute is not fully enrolled, other seats may become available. The Education Department will make final decisions about student enrollment.

Section A: Northeast Foundation for Children faculty
Time: Monday - Thursday, August 15 - 18, 8:00 am - 3:30 pm and
Friday, August 19, 8:00 am - 12:30 pm
Maximum: 4 seats available for Education Department students
Changed (15/12/05) to:
Maximum 7
Credits: 2

EDC 671
Sex, Drugs and MTV
Class Cancelled (05/12/05)
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction

Are you ready to talk about sex and drugs with your students? Can you teach and have conversations with upper elementary and middle school students about nutrition, eating disorders, substance abuse, and sexuality education? Learn how to integrate the exploration of these topics with human anatomy, media education, and advisory groups. Learn strategies for creating a safe environment for your students while also finding your own comfort zone with student centered conversations. Leading discussions, role-plays, simulations, integrating community speakers, and small group projects will be some of the methods used in this course.

Section A: Pauline Chandler
Time: Monday - Friday, June 20 - 24,
1:00 - 4:15 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, 2005 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 10th 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 seven separate courses. The seven courses will be integrated in style and content, but the individual courses may be taken separately. Candidates for teacher certification are encouraged to take as least two credits in the Social Studies methodology, with at least one of them having a history focus.

1. EDC 658
Cemetery Quest:
Utilizing Burial Grounds as Education 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, June 28 - July 1,
1:00 - 5:00 pm
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

2. 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 13 - 17,
8:30 am - 12:00
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

3. 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 6 - 10,
8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Maximum: 16
Changed (15/12/05) to:
Maximum 17
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

4. EDC 666
Place-Based Education and Community Building
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction

Do you like to hike, canoe on the Connecticut River, participate in an archeological dig, and experience challenges on Low and High Ropes Courses? Students in this course will have the opportunity to bridge field experiences with place-based education curriculum development. Hinsdale, NH CO-SEED site and High 5 Adventure Learning Center in Brattleboro, VT will host this course. Learning at these sites will allow for immersion in authentic community exploration and curriculum integration. Students will be introduced to facilitation skills, reflective practice strategies, and place-based education planning tools. Upon completion of this course, students will be prepared to conduct field trips, community-based projects, and problem solving initiatives. This is a unique opportunity to work with Hinsdale teachers and community partners and be a part of a place-based education initiative. Transportation through carpooling encouraged.

Section A: Pauline Chandler
Time: Monday - Friday, June 27 - July 1,
9:00 - 4:00 pm
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 2

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. This course will involve a few field trips to Guilford, Vermont.

Section A: Jennifer Kramer
Time: Tuesday - Friday, July 5 - 8,
1:00 - 5:00 pm
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

6. EDC 531
Social Studies: Learning History through Real Problems
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Priority to Integrated Learning students.

Through the use of simulations and other real-life engagements, the issues of history and social dilemmas can be brought to life for students in the upper elementary and middle school grades. Participants in this course will engage in an historical simulation, examine issues associated with planning and managing such activities in the classroom, gain an understanding of the pedagogical underpinnings of interactive classroom experiences, and produce a final project which may be an activity designed for use in the participant’s classrooms.

Section A: Peter Monether
Time: Monday - Friday, June 27 - July 1,
1:00 - 4:30 pm
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

7. 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 13 - 17,
1:00 - 4:15 pm
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

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,
10:30 am - 12:15 pm,
and Mondays, 7:15 - 9:15 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: Fridays, 7:25 - 8:40 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 & Wednesdays,
2:00 - 3:55 pm, and
Thursdays, 4:00 - 5:55 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: Wednesdays, 7:25 - 8:40 am, and
Tuesdays & Fridays, 2:00 - 3:55 pm
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 research as a path of inquiry, 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: An Outline of Esoteric Science, Background Reading: Theosophy, and How to Know Higher Worlds, all by Rudolf Steiner

Section A: Torin Finser
Time: Mondays - Wednesdays, 8:45 - 10:00 am, and
Thursdays, 10:30 am - 12:15 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. Text: The Education of the Child in the Light of Anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner; and Phases of Childhood, Bernard Lievegoed.

Section A: Georg Locher
Time: Mondays - Wednesdays, 4:00 - 5:55 pm, and
Fridays, 8:45 - 10:00 am
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, 10:30 am - 12:15 pm, and
Fridays, 4:00 - 5:55 pm
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, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 7:25 - 8:40 am, and
Fridays, 10:30 am - 12:15 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

Finishing Year Round Waldorf Program

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 & Tuesdays, 2:00 - 3:55 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: uncredited

Bothmer Gymnastics
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 department.

Section B: Kim John Payne
Time: Thursdays, 7:25 - 8:40 am
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: uncredited

Eurythmy
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 department.

Section A: Cezary Ciaglo
Time: Mondays & Fridays, 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 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: Monday - Friday, 10:30 am - 12:15 pm, and
Thursdays, 4:00 - 5:55 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: Fridays, 4:00 - 5:55 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, 2:00 - 3:55 pm,
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

EDC 536
Science Curriculum
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Required of and restricted to finishing elementary 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: Mondays - Wednesdays, 4:00 - 5:55 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

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, & 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: The Poetry of Puppetry, The Contemporary Child and Adolescent, or Personal and Organizational Renewal, in addition to their regular courses.)

The Contemporary Child & Adolescent

The overall theme for this workshop is the social life of the child and teenager. 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 explore such issues as social exclusion, addiction, trauma & stress, ADHD, non-verbal learning disorder, and oppositional behavior. Each theme will be approached from 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 4 - July 7,
8:30 am - 5:00 pm, and
Friday, July 8, 8:30 am - 12:45 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: uncredited

EDP 624
Personal and Organizational Renewal
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 Rudolf Steiner’s concept of the threefold social order, aspects of 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 and Siegfried E. Finser.

Section A: Torin Finser and Leonore Russell
Time: Monday - Thursday, July 4 - July 7,
8:30 am - 5:00 pm, and
Friday, July 8, 8:30 am - 12:45 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 3

The Poetry of Puppetry

How do we learn to master life movements in playing out the story of our destiny? We will give time to these questions, working through eurythmy in poetic fairy tale verse. After ensouling our own gesture we will transform it into the “incarnation” of the puppet. Themes of inner and outer movement will be taken up. Participants will also plant dye silks for their troupe work and make a “free-form” puppet to aid their own creative explorations in movement. Therapeutic eurythmist Stella Elliston joins Janene Ping in this course designed for puppeteers who wish to deepen artistic therapeutic, and educational aspects of the art of the puppet. Materials fee $40. Please bring to the course sketch pad and pencils or chalks, eurhythmy shoes, and a sewing kit.

Section A: Janene Ping and Stella Elliston
Time: Monday - Thursday, July 4 - July 7,
8:30 am - 5:00 pm, and
Friday, July 8, 8:30 am - 12:45 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: uncredited

Waldorf Continuing Summer Sequence

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

This course is built on the work from the previous summer in elaborating the work in eurythmy as an art form and in relation to the curriculum.

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

EDT 586B
Evolving Consciousness II
Competency Area: Theoretical & Philosophical Foundations of Education
Restricted to Continuing Summer Sequence Waldorf students; others by written permission of Program Director attached to or on registration form.

This course is the sequel to the introduction of anthroposophical concepts presented previously. During this term, world evolution and occult history will be considered from the standpoint of the evolving consciousness of humanity as characterized by Rudolf Steiner. Student research projects will be presented and discussed.

Section A: Torin Finser
Time: Mondays - Thursdays, 10:30 am - 12:15 pm,
and Sunday, July 10, 12:00 - 4:00 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 2

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

Students in this course will be introduced to the Waldorf painting curriculum with some exercises from K-grade 8. In addition, this course will highlight the evolution of consciousness through color.

Section A: Karine Munk Finser
Time: Wednesdays - Fridays 2:00 - 3:55 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

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

This course will offer an introduction to 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 B: Stephen Bloomquist
Time: Mondays & Tuesdays, 2:00 - 3:55 pm, and
Wednesdays, 7:15 - 9:15 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

Singing II
Restricted to continuing Summer Sequence Waldorf students; others by written permission of Program Director. It is not necessary to write this course on your registration form.

This course will continue the work begun in the first summer in voice development. In addition, students will work with recorders and explore the transformation of the music lessons through the grades.

Section A: Helena Niiva-Sawyer
Time: Thursdays, 7:25 - 8:40 am
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: uncredited

EDC 545
Speech II
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Required of and restricted to continuing Summer Sequence 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 B: Jeremiah Turner
Time: Wednesdays, & Fridays 7:25 - 8:40 am, and
Mondays, 7:15 - 9:15 am
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

EDT 534
Today’s Child
Competency Area: Theoretical & Philosophical Foundations of Education
Required of and restricted to continuing Summer Sequence Waldorf students; others by written permission of Program Director attached to or on registration form.

This course will focus on the social life of the child in which we will explore their emotional and behavioral responses and how we as teachers can deepen our understanding of the world our children face. We will span from the soul-spiritual to the practical helping gesture in exploring such issues as social exclusion, cumulative stress, attention priority issues/ADHD, non-verbal learning disorder, and anger and its relationship to the temperaments. Each theme will be approached on a developmental basis, tracing these issues from the early elementary through the elementary school years.

Section A: Kim John Payne
Time: Wednesdays 4:00 - 5:55 pm,
Thursdays, 8:45 - 10:00 am, and
Fridays, 10:30 am - 12:15 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

EDC 559C
Waldorf Elementary Curriculum Seminar
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Restricted to continuing Summer Sequence Waldorf students; others by written permission of Program Director attached to or on registration form.

This advanced seminar builds on the course Human Development and the Waldorf Curriculum and focuses on essential aspects of Waldorf methods in the main lesson curriculum of grades 1-8. Particular attention is devoted to the key principles involved in the art of class teaching. Students will learn ways to creatively and economically transform knowledge into age appropriate lessons and experiential learning. The seminar will emphasize a question and discussion format and enable participants to share practical experiences and insights. It will assist students in developing curriculum strategies, block plans, research and resources for future implementation. It will be specially tailored to the grade and subject needs and interests of the participants and individualized advice will be given by the instructor. At the same time the course will address and interrelate these specific areas and details always in the context of a subject’s whole development over the eight years. Required Reading: Rudolf Steiner, Practical Advice to Teachers; Discussions with Teachers.

Section A: Arthur Auer
Time: Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, & Fridays,
4:00 - 5:55 pm,
and Tuesdays, 7:25 - 8:40 am
Maximum: 24
Credits: 2

Education CoursesSummer 2005

Experienced Ed., Integrated Learning & Science

Entering Year Round Waldorf Program

Finishing Year Round Waldorf Program

Waldorf Continuing Summer Sequence

Education Courses
Summer 2005