The global growth of the Waldorf movement has led to more variety and complexity in teacher training. Therefore today and in the future we need people who adapt Rudolf Steiner's educational impulse to their own culture and implement it in a contemporary way. The «International Teacher Education Project» by the Pedagogical Section and the «Hague Circle – International Council for Steiner Waldorf Education» addresses this issue.

The project group organized colloquia on each continent as platforms for teacher educators from early childhood to high school to meet and find their common ground.

The results of the continental colloquia will be collected by a project group composed of colleagues from different continents. It has the task of designing a target image of «teacher education» and describing its implementation. The project group meets three times a year to work with feedback and suggestions for refining and expanding aspects of education.

Questions we have asked ourselves:

• Are the teachers in touch with contemporary issues?
• Do they offer high quality training and are they able to spark the trainees' enthusiasm for Steiner's educational impulse?
• Why are there not enough trained teachers in our institutions?
• What are the aims and objectives of teacher training?
• Do we need Waldorf specific teacher training and why?
• How are teachers today educated for their work at Waldorf schools?
• What do children and trainee teachers need today?
• How is the training financed?
• Who teaches the teacher trainers?