The Art of Waldorf Education - Rudolf Steiner College

summer facultySummer 2009 FacultyAonghus Gordon, B.A.Trained as an artist and teacher and traveled extensively before renovating Ruskin Mill inEngland, 1982 into the Ruskin Mill Arts and Crafts Centre; founded the Living Earth TrainingCourse, 1984 which developed into the Ruskin Mill Educational Trust in 1996; co-foundedHiram Trust, 1994; co-founded Waldorf College, 1999; established Glasshouse College,Stourbridge, 2000; established Freeman College, Sheffield, 2005; awarded Entrepreneur of theYear, 2005 and currently is establishing Clervaux College, Darlington for excluded children.Gerda Kramer, Ph.D.International lecturer, biologist and worldwide ecological researcher. Did extensive field workand research in Zaire and Guatemala. In 1982 she founded a crafts center based mainly onweaving, spinning, and plant dyeing in a Spanish village which she directed for twenty years.For about thirty years, Dr. Kramer has been investigating the earth body and human culturesthrough journeys to Central and South America, Africa, Russia, China, and Tibet. Most recentlyshe is introducing healing methods to work with the earth.Dr. Peter LutzkerWaldorf teacher and educator for foreign language teachers in Europe; author of many articlesand three books on language teaching, most recently The Art of Foreign Language Teaching:Improvisation and Drama in Teacher Development and Language Learning.Ingun Schneider, P.T.*Director of our Remedial Education Program. Ingun is an educational support teacherspecializing in the Extra Lesson approach. Her international work as a remedial educationmentor and consultant has taken her to Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Israel, Hungary, Spain,and the Scandinavian countries. Previously she worked as a Waldorf class teacher, a physicaltherapist, and a Lamaze childbirth educator. She is on the Board of the International ExtraLesson Association (IELA) and is a candidate for a master’s degree in Education.Betty Staley, M.A.*Over 30 years experience working with adolescents as a Waldorf high school teacher; one of thefounders of Sacramento Waldorf High School; creator and director of our Waldorf High SchoolTeacher Education Program. Betty has taught history and literature, advised new high schoolinitiatives and lectured internationally on child development and the adolescent years. Authorof six books including Between Form and Freedom: A Practical Guide to the Teenage Years. Hermost recent book is Splinters of the Sun, Teaching Russian Literature to High School Students.Patrick Wakeford-Evans, M.A.*Academic Dean and Director of our full-time Waldorf Teacher Education Program; Mastersin Human Development, St. Mary’s University of Minnesota; B.S. with Distinction in Biology,University of New Mexico; Waldorf Teacher Training Diploma, Rudolf Steiner College; mentorand lecturer in Waldorf Education in Japan, England, Mexico, and North America.36