WALDORF INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA® (WISC)
Waldorf Education - for the Social Future
What is education and what is it for? Is it an invasive process of inculcating, informing, molding or reforming?Or is it one that entices, encourages, "leads forth" (as the dictionary says)? Does it inspire and support, helping children to develop their own inborn, unique potential and intentions?
Waldorf education creates itself anew with each child, each class, each teacher, school, and location in the world because it relies on the free, undetermined creativity of the individual teacher and community of teachers at the school. It owes its understanding of the developmental stages of childhood and its age-appropriate curriculum guidelines to the insights and founding guidance of Rudolf Steiner (1865-1925), natural and spiritual scientist, philosopher, and educator. Seeing the human being in terms of soul, spirit and physical attributes inspires teachers to support the child's whole being not only in mental activity, but also in activities in art, handcrafts, movement, and in nature; and it inspires teachers to pursue a path of self-development and self-education that awakens creativity and presence of mind.
At the Waldorf Institute of Southern California® (WISC) you will find:
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Certified teacher education course – 3 years, part-time schedule
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Weekend workshops – for all interested adults
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Summer week-long classes – for enrolled students, practicing teachers, all
interested adults
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Classroom observation & practice teaching in Waldorf schools
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Open houses and Saturday class visiting
Our goal is to guide and support our student teachers on a journey of soul-spiritual development and transformation that will continue as life practice and enable them to realize their potential as practicing Waldorf teachers. The fundamental idea is that we human beings are experiencing, and increasingly responsible for, an evolution of our consciousness and morality, and that this is happening through a process of recurring lives on earth. We enter the new life bearing the fruits of accomplishments in the previous life, and also with karmic consequences of the previous life calling for compensatory activity in the present one.
"Accept the children with reverence, educate them with love, send them forth in freedom."
- Rudolf Steiner
You are invited to:
Visit our website -
Visit a local Waldorf school
Visit our classes – telephone (877) 394-1444
