Registration Information
To register for an institute, visit:
www.uwsp.edu/conted/ConfWrkShp/Pages/
Summer-Learning-Institute.aspx
To register for the credit option, visit:
www.uwsp.edu/conted/credit
Attendees must register for the institute
in addition to the credit option.
Credit Option
Earn three credits at the July 25-29 institute in
EDUC 370/570 sec 882 Waldorf Views of Child
Development.
For more information:
UW-Stevens Point Continuing Education
715-346-3838
jhess@uwsp.edu
Summer Learning
Institute Inspired by
Waldorf Education for
K-8 Educators
Credit and Non-Credit Options
Earn three credits at the Aug. 1-5 institute in EDUC
370/570 sec 883, Weaving the Arts into Elementary
Science Teaching.
Estimated tuition for Wisconsin residents:
Undergraduate: $325/credit
Graduate: $480/credit
If you require special assistance, please notify us at least
four weeks in advance of the course date. UW-Stevens
Point provides equal opportunities in employment and
programming.
School of Education
Continuing Education
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Summer Learning Institute Inspired by Waldorf Education for K-8 Educators
The School of Education at the University of
Wisconsin-Stevens Point is offering two institutes
related to Waldorf curriculum. University credit
available for additional fee.*
What is the Waldorf Approach to
Education?
The Waldorf approach to education aspires to:
•Awaken imagination and wonder
•Enliven and expand the breadth of student
learning, bringing joy into the classroom
•Address the developmental needs of all children,
through integrated, art-filled learning
•Use creativity in the classroom while
nurturing emotional intelligences, kindness
and responsibility through character building
activities
•Benefit students of a variety of backgrounds with
an experiential and integrated approach
•Strengthen literacy and numeracy with
innovative and practical pedagogical methods
•Protect childhood by creating a healthy
and nurturing environment and using
developmentally appropriate teaching methods
•Energize a love of learning
•Teach through the arts, including drawing,
painting, poetry, drama, storytelling, singing and
movement
Views of Child Development
Dates: July 25-29, 2016; 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Location: Central Wisconsin Environmental Station
in Amherst Junction, Wis., host of the preK-6
Tomorrow River Community Charter School
Institute: $600
Discount rate if taking the credit course: $300
Includes lunch and supplies
This course will provide an overview of the
traditional theory of child development and
will outline Rudolf Steiner’s (creator of Waldorf
education) views of child development. The course
will also cover the biographies of educational
philosophers whose work informed our current
understandings of the development of the child
and will further students’ understanding of brain
research and child development.
Weaving the Arts into Elementary
Science Teaching: A Developmental
Approach
Dates: Aug. 1-5, 2016; 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Location: Central Wisconsin Environmental Station
in Amherst Junction, Wis., host of the preK-6
Tomorrow River Community Charter School
Institute: $600
Discount rate if taking the credit course: $300
Includes lunch and supplies
Students will experience a hands-on, inquiry-based
course format with direct application to teaching
science. Focus will be placed on a deep connection
to the natural world as well as a reverence and
respect for nature, one another, and the planet.
Students will be introduced to the Waldorf Science
Curriculum. Methodology from Waldorf education
will be applied to the National Science Education
Standards (NSESs) recommended science
curriculum. Students will experience guided
crayon drawing, colored pencil drawing, water
color painting, and handwork and see how these
artistic mediums can integrate into the science
curriculum.
Instructor
Mary Barr Goral, Ph.D., began
her career in education over 30
years ago. After teaching in the
public schools in Bloomington,
Indiana, for 11 years, she received
both her master’s and doctorate
in curriculum studies and
math education from Indiana
University.
Mary taught in higher education for 12 years and
she currently works with Public Waldorf schools,
coaching and training their teachers through
her educational organization, Transformational
Teaching.
Mary pioneered two other Waldorf teacher
trainings, Great Lakes Waldorf Teacher Training in
Milwaukee (started in 2002) and Kentahten Teacher
Training, a regional teacher training in Louisville
(started in 2005).
Her book, Transformational Teaching: Waldorfinspired Methods in the Public School, tells the story
of teachers in Louisville who use Waldorf-inspired
methods with their public school students.
Mary has served on the board of trustees of Rudolf
Steiner College and is currently on the advisory
board of the Alliance for Public Waldorf Education.
*Please see reverse side for details on credit options.