Education Courses Summer 2006

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

Exp. Ed. & Integrated Learning & Science

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
Section B: Anne Kebler
Time: Monday - Friday, June 19 - 23,
4:45 - 8:00 pm, and
Monday - Friday, June 26 - 30,
8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Maximum: 18 per section
Credits: 2

EDP 600
Contemporary Social & Political Issues in Education
Competency Area: Education and Social Policy
Required of and Restricted to Experienced Educators School Choice Cluster 2006.

The socio-cultural contexts of K-12 teaching and learning are ever shifting. Society's expectations for schools and for the roles that teachers are expected to assume may be understood, in large part, in relation to the social, cultural, political, and historical contexts from which they arise and the ideals and expectations that Americans have always had about our schools. We will explore ways in which these multiple and overlapping contexts influence teachers' work in educational settings - in good ways and in ways that confine a teacher's vision. We will examine the current relationship between society and public education, with a particular focus on standards and accountability, on issues of school choice, and on forces within and outside the school that direct and constrain the processes of education. Educators should emerge from this course better able to sustain their values and ideals, and to create space for passionate teaching and authentic learning, in the face of these challenges to public education.

Section C: School Choice Cluster 2006: Rob Fried
Time: Monday - Friday, June 26 - 30,
8:00 am - 1:00 pm
Maximum: 18
Credits: 2

EDC 620
Content Mentoring
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Required of and Restricted to Experienced Educators School Choice Cluster 2006.

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 2006, you will need to speak to your advisor about requesting an extension for this course. Please consult your Program Handbook for more details.

Section C: School Choice Cluster 2006: 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: Peter Eppig
Time: Monday - Friday, July 10 - 14,
8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Maximum: 18
Credits: 2

EDT 552
Critical Skills Institute - Level 2
COURSE CANCELLED 05/05/06
Competency Area: Theoretical & Philosophical Foundations of Education

The Level II Critical Skills Institute (CSI) builds upon the foundations of the Level 1 institute and the experiences of the Critical Skills teacher. Over five 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: Maura Hart
Time: Monday - Friday, July 10 - 14,
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 A: Pembroke NH Cluster 2005 and Springfield VT Cluster 2005: Tom Julius
Time: Monday - Friday, June 26 - 30,
8:00 am - 1:00 pm
Maximum: 30
Credits: 2

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: Wednesday - Saturday, July 5 - 8,
8:00 am - 12:00 pm
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

EDC 638
Drama in the Classroom
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction

Curriculum comes alive when students have the opportunity to experience it in their bodies. In this course we will explore the use of drama to enrich social studies, science and language arts curriculum. Participants will learn an array of drama games and exercises and will experience using the traditional mummer's play format as a way into writing and performing short plays. Absolutely no drama experience is necessary.

Section A: Jane Miller
Time: Monday - Friday, June 12 - 16,
1:00 - 4:15 pm
Maximum: 18
(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: Wednesday - Saturday, July 5 - 8,
8:00 am - 12:00 pm
Added 05/10/06: Section B: Ellen Nam
Time: Tuesday - Friday, June 27 - 30, 1:00 - 5:00 pm
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

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 ÒCircusÓ 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 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 5 - 9,
1:00 - 4:15 pm
Maximum: 18
(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

ED 699E
Master's Project II
Required of all finishing students in the Keene Cluster 2004 cluster.

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 F: Keene Cluster 2004: Staff
Credits: 3

ED 699G
Master's Project
Required of and restricted to all finishing students in the School Choice 2005 cluster.

Section G: School Choice Cluster 2005: 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 23.

Section A: Education Faculty
Credits: uncredited

ED 699S
Master's Project Seminar
Required of and restricted to all finishing students in the School Choice 2005 cluster.

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 G: School Choice 2005 Cluster: Laura Thomas
Time: Monday - Friday, June 26 - 30,
8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Maximum: 18
Credits: 2

EDP 593
Models of School Reform
Competency Area: Education & Social Policy
Required of and Restricted to Experienced Educator School Choice Cluster 2006.

This course will introduce students to a framework for understanding and evaluating models of school reform. Students will also examine some current models of interest to them and have a chance to discuss and debate the merits of various models in the context of their own experiences and philosophies.

Section C: School Choice Cluster 2006: Laura Thomas
Time: Monday - Wednesday, June 26 - 28,
2:00 - 6:30 pm
Maximum: 18
Credits: 1

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 19 - 23,
1:00 - 4:15 pm
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
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: Wednesday - Saturday, July 5 - 8,
1:00 - 5:00 pm
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

EDC 673
Service Learning - Blending Community Exploration, Academics, and Reflection
COURSE CANCELLED 05/05/06
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction

Service learning is a type of experiential education that intentionally weaves citizenship and service into the learning. On the first day, students will participate in a service-learning project that responds to a local community need. On the second day, students will take a walking tour of Keene to meet with community agencies and learn how to identify community assets and needs. For the remainder of the week, students will focus on building a service-learning project that blends community needs with curricular requirements while integrating student ownership and citizenship skills. Students will practice interdisciplinary reflection activities and service-learning evaluation strategies throughout the week. This course will be held at Antioch and at various community agencies in Keene. On the final day of the course, students will present their service learning projects to local agencies. This course is an opportunity for curriculum development, building partnerships, presentation skills, and community exploration.

Section A: Pauline Chandler
Time: Monday - Friday, June 26 - 30,
1:30 - 5:00 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, 2006 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

EDC 598
Teacher Leadership
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Required of students in the Experienced Educators General Program.

This course will focus on understanding the multitude of roles teachers play in school change, and on developing personal/professional leadership skills. Through active learning and problem solving, students will frequently work collaboratively to advance their self-knowledge and communication skills. Work required will be an examination of students' leadership capacities and an Advocacy Plan for moving their Master's Project forward.

Section A: Pembroke NH cluster 2005 and
Springfield VT Cluster 2005: Maura Hart
Time: Monday - Wednesday, June 26 - 28,
2:00 - 6:30 pm
Maximum: 30
Credits: 1

Social Studies: Inquiry Approaches and the Core Curriculum

Social Studies methodology is presented as six separate courses. The six 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: Monday - Friday, June 5 - 9,
4:45 - 8:00 pm
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

2. EDC 528
Ecology of Imagination in Childhood
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Competency clarification 04/20/06: Curriculum & Instruction; required of and priority to Science & Environmental Education students.
Note: This course is no longer considered as one of the recommended Social Studies credit; the Education department strongly encourages students to complete 2 Social Studies credits as part of their Integrated Learning degree program.
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 12 - 16,
8:30 am - 12:00 pm
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 $30.00 payable to the Education Department prior to the first day of class.

Section A: Judy Coven
Time: Monday - Friday, June 5 - 9,
8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Maximum: 16
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

4. 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: Wednesday - Saturday, July 5 - 8,
1:00 - 5:00 pm
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

5. EDC 531
Social Studies: Learning History through Real Problems
COURSE CANCELLED 05/05/06
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 26 - 30,
1:00 - 4:30 pm
Maximum: 18
(1 seat reserved for ES student)
Credits: 1

6. EDC 532A
Storytelling: Stories in the Classroom
COURSE CANCELLED 05/05/06
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: TBA
Changed 04/27/06 to: Section A: John Porcino
Time: Monday - Friday, June 12 - 16,
4:45 - 8:00 pm
Changed 04/20/06 to: Time: June 19 - 23, 8:30 am - 12:00 pm
Credits: 1

Entering Year Round Waldorf Program

EDT 582
Anthroposophy: Projective Geometry
Competency Area: Theoretical & Philosophical Foundations of Education
Required of and restricted to entering Year Round 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: Jamie York
Time: Mondays & Tuesdays, 2:00 - 3:55 pm, and Monday, July 17, 7:15 - 9:15 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

Bothmer Gymnastics
Required of and 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: Brian Macdonald
Time: Tuesdays, 8:45 -10:00 am, and Thursdays, 7:25 - 8:40 am
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: uncredited

EDC 540
Clay Modeling I
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Required of and restricted to entering Year Round 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 - 3:55 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

EDC 543
Eurythmy I
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
Required of and restricted to entering Year Round 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 & Fridays, 7:25 - 8:40 am, and Tuesdays, 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

EDT 583
Evolving Consciousness I
Competency Area: Theoretical & Philosophical Foundations of Education
Required of and restricted to entering Year Round 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, Outline of 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.

Section A: Signe Motter
Time: Thursdays, 10:30 am - 12:15 pm and 2:00 - 3:55 pm, and Fridays, 2:00 - 3:55 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.
Required of and restricted to entering Year Round 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, 8:45 - 10:00 am and Wednesdays - Fridays, 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

Singing I
Required of and restricted to entering 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 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
Required of and restricted to entering Year Round 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: Ronald Richardson
Time: Mondays, Wednesdays & 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: Thursdays & Fridays, 4:00 - 6:00 pm, and Mondays, 7:15 - 9:30 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 38
Credits: 1

Arts to Accompany Foundations of Human Experience
Required of and 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: Fridays, 10:30 am - 12:15 pm, and Mondays 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: uncredited

Bothmer Gymnastics
Required of and 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: Brian Macdonald
Time: Thursdays, 2:00 - 3:55 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: uncredited

Eurythmy
Required of and 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 & Tuesdays, 7:25 - 8:40 am
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credit

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 - Thursdays, 10:30 am - 12:15 pm, and Wednesdays, 2:00 - 3:55 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 2

Games
Required of and 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: Brian Macdonald
Time: Tuesdays, 2:00 - 3:55 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
Required of and restricted to finishing 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 & Thursdays, 7:25 - 8:40 am, and
Fridays 2:00 - 3:55 pm, and Friday, July 28, 7:25 - 8:40 am
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 38
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.

This course introduces 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 pm, and Wednesdays, 8:45 - 10:00 am
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: Ronald Richardson
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 two institutes: Nourishing our Inner Life: Meditative Exercises and Immersion in the Archetypes of Fairy Tales: The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily; or Personal and Organizational Renewal, in addition to their regular courses.

Nourishing our Inner Life: Meditative Exercises and Immersion in the Archetypes of Fairy Tales:
The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily

Cultivating a spiritual life means uniting ourselves with the spiritual world both in our meditative, inner life and in our outer daily life. Never has it been more needed than in today's hectic and stressful living. Inner life can be cultivated in many ways, including study, inner exercises, and artistic work. In this course we will focus primarily on inner exercises and the use of the arts to enhance inner life. We will explore basic anthroposophic exercises and draw on exercises from How to Know Higher Worlds and other sources, which are especially helpful to teachers. We will enrich ourselves through the powerful archetypes of fairy tales, in particular Goethe's fairy tale of The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily, which we will explore in pastel drawings. Powerful transformations occur because many are able to work together.

Section A: Joan Almon
Time: Monday - Thursday, July 3 - 6, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm, and Friday, July 7, 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 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.

Section A: Torin Finser and Leonore Russell
Time: Monday - Thursday, July 3 - 6, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm, and Friday, July 7, 8:30 am - 12:45 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 3

Waldorf Entering Summer Sequence

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

Section B: Jamie York
Time: Mondays - Tuesdays, 4:00 - 6:00 pm, and Monday, July 24, 7:15 - 9:30 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

Bothmer Gymnastics
Required of and restricted to entering 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 the department.

Section B: Brian Macdonald
Time: Thursdays, 8:45 - 10:00 am, and Fridays, 2:00 - 3:55 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: uncredited

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

Section B: Cezary Ciaglo
Time: Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 8:45 - 10:00 am
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.
Required of and restricted to entering Summer Sequence Waldorf students; others by written permission of Program Director attached to or on registration form.

This course will cover the entire span of human development from prebirth and early childhood through old age and after death. Particular focus will be placed on the archetypal growth patterns of the child in the elementary school years. It will be shown how Waldorf principles and curriculum meet certain critical developmental needs at nodal points of physiological and psychological change as described by Rudolf Steiner. Students will develop an appreciation for how a teacher's own creative working out of these pedagogical insights becomes the awakening therapeutic agent of the method.

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
Required of and restricted to entering Summer Sequence Waldorf 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 - 3:55 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 1

EDP 604A
Research for Personal and Social Change
Competency Area: Education & Social Policy
Required of and restricted to entering Summer Sequence Waldorf 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 12 & 19, 7:15 - 9:30 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 2

Singing I
Required of and restricted to entering 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 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 - 3:55 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
Required of and restricted to entering Summer Sequence Waldorf students; others by written permission of Program Director attached to or on registration form.

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

Waldorf Finishing Summer Sequence

Section A: Douglas Gerwin
Time: Mondays, 7:15 - 9:30 pm, and Thursdays & Fridays, 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 38
Credits: 1

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

Section B: Frances Vig
Time: Mondays, 2:00 - 3:55 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: uncredited

Bothmer Gymnastics
Required of and 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 the department.

Section B: Brian Macdonald
Time: Tuesdays, 7:25 - 8:40 am
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: uncredited

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

This drawing course focuses on curriculum drawing in grades 1-8 and includes blackboard drawing.

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

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: Frances Vig
Time: Mondays - Wednesdays, 10:30 am - 12:15 pm, and Thursdays, 8:45 - 10:00 am and 2:00 - 3:55 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 23.

Section W: Education Faculty
Credits: Uncredited

EDC 570
Math and Language Arts
Competency Area: Curriculum & Instruction
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 cover various ways in which Waldorf principles and methods enliven the teaching and learning of mathematics, reading and other language arts. Topics will follow the development of the child from kindergarten through grade 8. Practical activities for the acquisition of math and language skills will be shared.

Section A: Arthur Auer
Time: Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 2:00 - 3:55 pm, and Fridays, 10:30 am - 12:15 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 & Thursdays, 7:25 - 8:40 am, and Fridays, 2:00 - 3:55 pm, and
Friday, July 28, 7:25 - 8:40 am
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 38
Credits: 1

EDP 605
Social and Organizational Issues
Competency Area: Education & Social Policy
Restricted to finishing 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, 10:30 am - 12:15 pm, and
Fridays, July 14 & 21, 7:25 - 8:40 am, and Sunday, July 9, 1:30 - 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 two institutes: Nourishing our Inner Life: Meditative Exercises and Immersion in the Archetypes of Fairy Tales: The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily; or Personal and Organizational Renewal, in addition to their regular courses)

Nourishing our Inner Life: Meditative Exercises and Immersion in the Archetypes of Fairy Tales:
The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily

Section A: Joan Almon
Time: Monday - Thursday, July 3 - 6,
8:30 am - 5:00 pm, and
Friday, July 7, 8:30 am - 12:45 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: uncredited

Section A: Torin Finser and Leonore Russell
Time: Monday - Thursday, July 3 - 6,
8:30 am - 5:00 pm, and
Friday, July 7, 8:30 am - 12:45 pm
Location: Pine Hill School, Wilton, NH
Maximum: 24
Credits: 3