Professional Development for Waldorf Teachers | Episode #31

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Professional Development for Waldorf Teachers

Choosing your professional development based on theory or approach that inspires you. Examples:

• Waldorf-specific
• Responsive Classroom
• Orton-Gillingham

Choosing your professional development based on subject matter. Examples:

• Classroom management
• Reading instruction
• Math instruction
• Assessment
• Parent work

No matter what kind of professional development you choose, you'll experience some benefits.

• Connecting with other teachers
• Re-inspire your work
• Find new ways of thinking about the work you do
• Learn strategies and techniques that are directly applicable in the classroom.

How to decide what to do. At the beginning of the year outline goals and choose professional development accordingly. Determine your strengths and challenges as a teacher and face the real facts of the aspects of your teaching that you think really needs the most growth. This can be challenging to face, but our work and our students benefit from this kind of honest look at our own work. This is what it means to be a striving Waldorf teacher.