The Art of Waldorf Education - Rudolf Steiner College

24 WALDORF HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER EDUCATIONWALDORF HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER EDUCATION25TWELFTH-GRADE SEMINARJuly 2–6 and July 9–13, 11:30am-1pmSeminar on Twelfth Grade with Eurythmywith Betty Staley, Jane Lorand, and High School Subject FacultyPoint and Periphery. Twelfth graders are at a special nexus in their high school development.Through eurythmy exercises we will explore the space around us. Through exploring andpracticing basic systemic methods for managing complex issues we will re-imagine the twelfthgradeyear. The principles and practices will include a diverse group of parents, teachers,and students. From our time together, we will release the unique, embedded experience andknowledge of the group, and self-organize emergent ideas and patterns for plotting againsttime/resources. With this as a background we will look at the contribution of each subject to thetwelfth-grade student.Course fee (for two weeks): $690 through June 15; $715 after June 15TWELFTH-GRADE CURRICULUMAFTERNOON COURSESJuly 2–6 and July 9–13, 2:15-3:45pmEnglishwith Mary EmeryWeek One: Senior Topics I. Poetry and other literature possibilities related to the Faustiantopics of tragedy, evil, striving, and freedom.Recommended reading: Job from the Hebrew Bible; Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe;The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (especially “The Grand Inquisitor” chapter);The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X; The New Testament.Week Two: Senior Topics II. Biographies, works, and relevance of the Transcendentalists.Discussions about essay writing (for class as well as the college application essay), additionalliterature choices (Russian, African-American, American, etc.) in electives or subject lessonsrelated to the topic of freedom and other twelfth-grade topics.Recommended reading: A longer list will be sent when students enroll. Philosophy of Freedom,Rudolf Steiner; biographies of Transcendentalists.Course fee (per week): $345 through June 15; $370 after June 15Historywith Betty StaleyWeek One: US History. The Great Migration and the changing face of America. A study of howthe migration of Blacks from the South from WWI through the 1970s had a major impact onAmerican life. We will compare this migration with migrations from across the sea. Using thisbook and other readings, we will examine how assignments shape a student’s thinking.Required reading: The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration,Isabel Wilkerson.Week Two: Symptomatology. The study of symptoms as an understanding of the evolutionof consciousness—from the ancient world to modern life, from group consciousness to theindividual. This course provides a vantage point by which twelfth graders can explore contextand meaning in the great ideas and events that have shaped the past, influence the present, andstimulate imagination of the future. Using this as a background, teachers can address a varietyof contemporary issues.Required reading: Colloquium on World History, AWSNA, May 2004.Course fee (per week): $345 through June 15; $370 after June 15Life Sciencewith Merrily LovellContinuation of morning course. (See page 21.)Course fee (for two weeks): $690 through June 15; $715 after June 15Chemistrywith John PeteringWe study phenomenology, the chemistry topics, and pedagogy for the twelfth-grade chemistryblock with the synthesis which guides the pedagogy of the twelfth-grade curriculum. Asbackground, we study selection, arrangement, and presentation of chemistry topics, usingseveral block outlines published in AWSNA’s Chemistry Colloquium, 2000. We will each developa design for a sample lesson and a lab experiment from a general list of biochemistry topics.Required reading: Chemistry Colloquium, AWSNA, 2000.Reference reading: Fundamentals of a Phenomenological Study of Chemistry, Chapters X-XI,Fritz Julius.Course fee (for two weeks): $690 through June 15; $715 after June 15Mathematicswith Ernst Schuberth, PhDThis course will provide an overview of 3-dimensional geometry from grade 6 through 12. Wewill start with clay modeling, construction of shadows, perspective black and white drawings,and continue with descriptive geometry in grades 9 and 10, projective and descriptive geometry(intersection of surfaces) in grade 11, and an outlook on using software in grade 12.Course fee (for two weeks): $690 through June 15; $715 after June 15