Sunbridge’s High School Teacher Education program has opened its online weekend classes to non-matriculated high school teachers looking for professional development, and others interested in “sampling” our high school program.

Interested individuals are invited to join our High School Teacher Education students for the following March 21-22 classes:

Principles of Education
Polarities in Human Organization–Head and Limbs
Rudolf Steiner, Foundations of Human Experience, Lecture 13
Program students began a study of Steiner’s first course for teachers last summer and are continuing this study in their online weekends during the 2024-2025 school year. Participants may want to review lectures 1-12 prior to joining, although presentations will summarize and extend material in a way that should be accessible to all.
Instructor: Gary Banks

Contemplative Practice
Evolution of Consciousness and Active Thinking
Owen Barfield, History, Guilt & Habit, Chapter 3
Barfield’s History, Guilt & Habit is an introduction to his thinking about history, evolution, and human consciousness, including those ingrained, largely unconscious habits of mind that we may change to healthfully improve our relationships with the world and others.
Instructor: Stephen Sagarin

Practical Work in a High School
Neutrality, Empathy, and What Comes Next for DEI
Lily Zheng, What Comes After DEI?
Instructor: Faculty

Curriculum courses (choose either Humanities or Math & Science):

Humanities
Waldorf High School Literature Curriculum, Part I
How do we balance the Western canon and what’s new? How do we think about changing the curriculum? How can we use foundational literature (from the Western canon) and also be critical of those foundations? Discussion will include literary examples such as Romeo and Juliet paired with old/new Tristan and Isolde, Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Loving vs. Virginia; authors such as Jane Eyre and Charlotte Bronte; and films such as “The Brutalist” and “Megalopolis.” Readings TBA
Instructors: Heather Scott and Hans Staats

Math & Science
The Activity of Thinking
Albert Linderman, Why the World Around You Isn’t as It Appears, Chapter 4
Albert Linderman’s book is an introduction into Owen Barfield’s insightful, philosophical, and rigorous look at what could be called “phenomenological” science (recognizing that the word “phenomenological” means many things to many persons). Conversations, which began with the first three chapters in the October and February weekends, will connect Barfield’s thought and Linderman’s text with the practice of teaching science and math in Waldorf high schools.
Instructor: Noelle Frerichs

See our High School page for faculty bios.

Zoom Class Schedule (ALL TIMES ARE NY / EASTERN)

Friday, March 21
7:00 pm-9:10 pm: Classes

Saturday, March 22
10:30 am-12:15 pm: Classes
12:15 pm-1:00 pm: Lunch
1:00 pm-2:45 pm: Classes
2:45 pm-3:00 pm: Break
3:00 pm-4:45 pm: Classes

Matriculation in Sunbridge’s Waldorf High School Teacher Education (WHSTE) Program

You may choose to simply participate in this weekend or to apply your experience toward future matriculation in our high school program. In order to apply credit for these classes toward a WHSTE diploma in the future, you must:

• Attend the entire weekend and complete all assignments
• Apply to our High School program within three years of the last weekend you attended

Should you eventually enroll, the cost of your weekend attendance will be credited to your WHSTE tuition.

Cost

The cost of the weekend is $250, including a $25 non-refundable registration fee. There is no refund for partial attendance.

Discounts

A 10% discount will be applied to payments made in CAD.

Sign up for two weekends and receive $50 off the total price.

For information on volume discounts if sending more than one teacher from your school, please contact Chris Costa in our finance office: [email protected] / 845-425-0055 x17

NOTE: If you wish to be eligible for credit toward full program tuition in the future, you must register early enough to receive and complete the assigned reading in order to fully participate in the classes.

For further information, please contact Barbara Vitale, admissions and summer coordinator, at [email protected] or 845-425-0055 x20

We reserve the right to make faculty substitutions when necessary. See registration form for refund policy.

Sunbridge is a New York State Education Department Approved Sponsor of Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (NYSED CTLE), enabling teachers of any background to choose Sunbridge for their CLTE/CEU professional development credits. Check to see if your state honors our status.