Professional development for Waldorf teachers and homeschooling parents

In this workshop, grades 1-8 class and subject teachers will receive instruction in the basics of how to create beautiful chalkboard drawings and how to approach Main Lesson book drawings across the Waldorf lower and middle school curricula. Regardless of your artistic background, you’ll leave with valuable skills, new-found confidence, and ideas for projects to bring to your class.

Using curricular themes, we will cover:

• Useful techniques for drawing with chalk
• Applying perspective drawing techniques to illustrations
• Employing geometry and proportion
• Drawing the human figure
• Methods for teaching children how to lay out a page

NOTE: This workshop is taught with the expectation that you have a background in Waldorf Education. 

NOTE: This workshop is filled. You may join our wait list for possible cancellations.

Instructor

Steve Simonak is currently fifth grade class teacher at Brooklyn Waldorf School. Prior to coming to Brooklyn in 2016, Steve was a longtime faculty member at Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School; during his 26 years there, he served as a class and high school teacher, middle school math and arts teacher, and Council of Teachers chairperson. Before becoming a Waldorf educator, he was a teacher in New York City. Steve who holds a BFA in Painting from Pratt Institute, received his Waldorf Teaching Certificate from the Alkion Center (for which he is a contributing faculty member), and has training in Foundation Studies from Antioch. Steve’s hobbies include medieval Christian painting, New York State history, gardening, birdwatching, and bird photography.

Your workshop also includes singing with Patti Regan of the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School.

Fee
$345 (includes all materials and non-refundable $30 registration fee).

Discount Options

10% discounts on subsequent registrations (of equal or lesser value) automatically appear on your registration form when selecting more than one title. (Exception: Waldorf Weekend, which offers an $80 discount when selected as a subsequent registration.)

Currently enrolled Sunbridge program students receive a 30% discount and Sunbridge program graduates receive a 15% discount (not to be combined with any other offering). Discount instructions will appear on the registration form after you answer questions about your Sunbridge background in the Participant Profile section. (Account must be in good standing.) 

Schools making 11 registrations for any combination of 2,3 and/or 5-day offerings will be rebated one tuition of the least expensive offering. (Rebate to be issued in August.)

NOTE: This workshop is filled. You may join our wait list for possible cancellations.

Questions?
Please contact Penelope-Myles Voss, Admissions, Alumni and Summer Series Coordinator, at [email protected] or 845-425-0055 x20

Sunbridge reserves the right to make faculty substitutions when necessary. See registration form for refund policy.