*The First Teachers Course 1919 in 2019*
Centenary conference July 6-14, 2019 at the Goetheanum, Dornach/ Schwitzerland
In English/ German/ Spanish
From July 6th to 14th, 2019 The Pedagogical Section is reviving the 'The First Teachers Course' of the first Waldorf school which took place in 1919. With Claus-Peter Röh, Marcel de Leuw, Jost Schieren, Ellen Kottker, Ben Cherry, Urs Dietler, Florian Osswald, Peter Lutzker, Jon McAlice, Christian Boettger, Brigitte Pütz, Albert Schmelzer, and Tomas Zdrazil. Program now online.. [more]

The first Waldorf School opened in September 1919 in Stuttgart, the first Waldorf Kindergarten in 1926. Today there are 1182 Waldorf and Rudolf Steiner schools in 66 countries and 1911 Waldorf Kindergartens in more than 69 countries. Since 2016, the directory of Waldorf Kindergartens and Waldorf Schools is published in a joint list… [more]

Themes in our new Journal: focus on the Middle School, the Four Teacher Generation, attitude and task of the teacher, aspects of teacher education… [more]

The International Forum of the Waldorf movement endorses a developmental approach to the use of digital technology in schools

Digital technology provides human beings with fascinating potential and possibilities. At the same time we know it can also be misused for mobbing or phishing, and its use can run the risk of addiction. The Waldorf educational movement promotes a pedagogical approach to the use of media in which children and adolescents are first prepared step by step in their cognitive, emotional, and practical capacities so that they can embrace the digital world without falling victim to it... [more]

Claus-Peter Röh focusses on the middle school. Claus-Peter is head of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum/ Switzerland... [more]

Florian Osswald talks about a new concept in Steiner Waldorf teacher education. Florian is head of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum/ Switzerland... [more]

In the annual report (in German) of the Education Department you can find a short desription of our work, tasks, projects and of our financial situation… [more]

Welcome to the Goetheanum! We offer visits to the Goetheanum for students from teacher trainings, teaching staff, interested persons from kindergartens and schools, graduating classes, students and others... [more]

Today and in the future we need people who adapt Steiner's educational impulse to their own culture and implement it in a contemporary way. The project 'Teach the Teachers' by the Pedagogical Section and the International Forum for Steiner/Waldorf Education (Hague Circle) addresses this issue. The project group is/was organising colloquia on each continent as platforms for teacher educators from early childhood to high school to meet and find their common ground. These meetings are the starting point for further, ongoing work and the foundation for an international network of teacher educators. A project group will collect the results of the colloquia, define aims and objectives for teacher education and describe their implementation… [more]

"Transitions in the life of the child from birth to age 14 - Understanding their significance and meaning for later life"  was the theme of an international conference of early childhood educator, teachers, and doctors, held at the Goetheanum in April 2015. The keynote lectures in this volume view the pivotal points when the child's consciousness shifts to new awareness and new capacities. The scope of development shared from both pedagogical and medical perspectives is important for all teachers… [more]

The International Forum for Steiner Waldorf Education (IF) at its meetings in Vienna/Austria on 17 May 2015 and in Arles/France on 7 May 2016 revised and re-adopted the document “Key characteristics of Waldorf education” – first adopted in Harduf/Israel on 14 November 2014 – as binding guidance for the worldwide Waldorf school movement. These features have been formulated in such a way as to be generally valid and may be supplemented by specific cultural characteristics for use in a school’s own country. They wish to place the emphasis on and strengthen diversity, individuality and openness to development. They supplement the characteristics adopted by the International Forum for Steiner Waldorf Education (Hague Circle) in 2009... [more]