{"id":502,"date":"2010-11-09T13:35:29","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T21:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrenleecohen.com\/?p=502"},"modified":"2010-11-09T13:35:29","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T21:35:29","slug":"being-a-waldorf-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/being-a-waldorf-teacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Being a Waldorf Teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3-9gOl62xDw\">Waldorf: Being a Teacher<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3-9gOl62xDw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3-9gOl62xDw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I have been fortunate to be involved with Waldorf Education for the past 20 years. Not only is it a continuous source of inspiration for me, I have witnessed what a unique and wonderful approach to education it is. Children excell there in many faceted ways. Now that I have my own children, I could not imagine a more perfect school setting for them. Waldorf schools value childhood, protect their\u00c2\u00a0innocence, allow for creative play and foster the healthy development of imagination. They offer offer children opportunities to develop a broad range of\u00c2\u00a0skills, social\/emotional maturity and conceptual depth that they will need for life. This truly is a broad based\u00c2\u00a0education rooted in the arts that\u00c2\u00a0 fosters\u00c2\u00a0balance, empathy, creativity and ultimately human freedom. It has been tested and refined over the past 90 years.<\/p>\n<p>As a teacher, I feel\u00c2\u00a0that to be entrusted with professional task of looking after the well being of a group of students over a period of eight years. It is an awe inspiring responsibility and one for which I am eternally grateful. I could not now imagine a more satisfying or meaningful vocation than that of teaching in a &#8216;Waldorf school. As the director of teacher education at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsct.ca\">Rudolf Steiner Centre Toronto<\/a> I do have a vested interest; nevertheless, these sentiments do come directly from my experience and from my heart. I welcome any inquiries and\/or questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waldorf: Being a Teacher I have been fortunate to be involved with Waldorf Education for the past 20 years. Not only is it a continuous source of inspiration for me, I have witnessed what a unique and wonderful approach to education it is. Children excell there in many faceted ways. Now that I have my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,19,21,15],"tags":[18,168,169,84,35,66,246,110,111,112,25,164,165,24,28,243,31,245,22],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-rudolf-steiner-centre-toronto","category-toronto-waldorf-school","category-waldorf-teacher-education","tag-advice","tag-child","tag-childhood","tag-children","tag-community-building","tag-consciousness","tag-education","tag-freedom","tag-head","tag-heart-and-hands","tag-inner-development","tag-meaning","tag-meaningful","tag-participatory","tag-rudolf-steiner","tag-rudolf-steiner-centre-toronto","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-waldorf-school","tag-waldorf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsfollowheart.com\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}