"You cannot train someone else to become an educator, and this is because each of us is One. There is in every human being an educator, but he sleeps, he must be awakened, and Art is what awakens."
- Rudolf Steiner, The Meeting of Generations
Introduction
RUDOLF STEINER INSTITUTE IN QUEBEC is a training center for renewing the art of education. The program of teacher training focuses on developing the abilities that make the teacher a free and creative being, capable of initiatives that meet real needs of children, meaning, informed by a deep understanding of the human being, its future, and its relations with the world and history, as Rudolf Steiner has developed.
The program includes teacher training:
- The study of basic works, mainly by Rudolf Steiner
- Art workshops: sculpture, drawing, painting, sculpture, music, singing, art of speech, theater, Bothmer gymnastics and dynamic Space, eurythmics
- Seminars
- Field placements in social therapy, biodynamic farming, teaching
- A research project on a topic given
Schedule and Calendar
The curriculum includes:
- 5 intensive weeks (three weeks in July and in October the weekend extended by Thanksgiving and March, the 1st week, corresponding to school holidays in Quebec)
- 16 weekends (average)
This does not include the weeks of internship.
Schedule of intensive weeks:
Monday through Friday, from 8h00 to 21h30
Week-end Schedule :
Friday evening: from 18:15 to 21:30
Saturday: from 8.00 to 13.00
The weekend of Thanksgiving (in October)
For information and registration, contact:
Michele Arsenault, Director, Tel: (450) 621-7220
email: michele.arsenault @ sympatico.ca
Location: (514) 481-56864855, av. Kensington, Montréal
Quebec CANADA