Teacher Preparation
Considering Teaching?
Consider becoming a Waldorf teacher.
"It's the hardest work I've ever done - and the most rewarding - I love it."
- Eric Utne, founder, Utne Reader, 7th & 8th grade Waldorf class teacher
Waldorf education offers unhurried education for the whole child-head, hands, and heart. Its innovative curriculum integrates the arts, practical work, and academics. It is uniquely developmentally-oriented, addressing the child's changing consciousness as it unfolds, stage by stage, from preschool through twelfth grade. Waldorf students develop a deep love for life and learning, as well as the confidence, innovation and strength to be of service to the world.
Waldorf is among the fastest growing educational movements in the world. In North America alone there are more than 250 Waldorf schools in some level of development, and numbers worldwide have doubled in the last decade to more than 900 schools. Along with this type of growth is a constant demand for new teachers. However, there's a shortage of trained and qualified Waldorf teachers worldwide. In North America alone 300-400 new teachers are needed each year, yet all the Waldorf teacher education programs combined only train about half that number.
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Today's teacher education centers offer full-time and part-time programs to meet students' needs for
flexibility and support. Most programs lead to a Certificate in Waldorf education; still others offer
the option of earning a Master's degree (M.S. Ed.). All of the programs are innovative, offering an
integrated curriculum that provides a sound philosophical, artistic and practical foundation for
Waldorf teaching.
To learn about these programs, visit our directory of full and part-time teacher education centers across North America and beyond:
- Teacher education centers in the United States
- Teacher education centers in Canada and Mexico
- Teacher education centers in the UK & Europe
- Teacher enrichment institutes
Financial assistance for Waldorf teacher education is available through the AWSNA Teacher Training Fund (http://www.awsna.org/TeacherTrainingFund.pdf) and other programs offered through the institutes.
