Teaching World Languages in Waldorf Education
Each afternoon from 12:30 to 2:30 Pacific time world language teachers will gather together for presentations, projects, and discussions specifically relevant to teaching world languages in Waldorf education.
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Topics will include:
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Steiner's indications and the "WHY" behind teaching world languages grades 1-8
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Developmentally appropriate content throughout the grades
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Meeting and engaging today's children (classroom management, time management, curriculum development/lesson planning)
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Creating space for sharing challenges, successes, and resources
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More details coming soon!
Meet the World Languages Team!
We are honored to be working with an amazing team of world language teachers who are coordinating this portion of the conference!
Ulrike Sievers​
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Ulrike Sievers has been teaching English and biology at Waldorf schools in Germany for over 20 years. She has explored the field of language teaching and learning in theory and practice, focusing on performative and artistic activities and the integration of analogue as well as digital media in her teaching. Based on her teaching and her international experience in teacher education, she wrote the book Creative teaching, sustainable learning: a holistic approach to foreign language teaching and learning, in which she has explored the wide range of possibilities teachers have to create open spaces in which their pupils can encounter the world, the other and the self, explore various ways of expression and develop their own voices. In 2016, she started the online platform www.e-learningwaldorf.de which offers Waldorf teachers and educators from around the world spaces and opportunities for collegial learning and exchange. In this context she has also developed her understanding of online training as well as a range of methods for adult learning.
Dana Fleming-Robertson
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Dana began teaching German at Yale University and Phillips Academy on the east coast. After 13 years as a Sunbridge-trained Waldorf class teacher at two start-up schools, teaching German to all the grades in her spare time, she is now officially the German teacher at the Great Oak Waldorf School, a part-time position without a classroom, but with all kinds of side roles, such as doing assessments, coming up with a school schedule that will work, editing end-of-year reports, etc. Dana serves on the Board of the Association for a Healing Education.
