Teaching, the Joy of Profession: An Invitation to Enhance Your (Waldorf) Interest

To be a teacher and to teach children and youngsters remains a wonderful profession. It never becomes dull or boring, but it is also a professional life under pressure. Teaching involves a myriad of demands, daily professionalism, and demands sound results, while also requiring attention to the individual needs and development of the students, as well as helping parents to understand their children. All of this demands a multifaceted personality and the development of new talents.

Teachers constantly serve others, leaving little time for oneself. Working in the teaching profession can easily lead to a loss of balance between inner needs and the needs of one's students, parents, and the school organism as a whole. When this happens, one might become sour despite this profession's delights.

This book is a guide to finding balance, access to more energy, and renewed enthusiasm for the classroom.

Author: Christof Wiechert
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Published: 04/10/2021
Pages: 184
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.10h x 4.60w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9783723514733

About the Author
Wiechert, Christof: - Christof Wiechert was born in The Hague and studied education and geography, and worked for thrity years as a Waldorf teacher in The Hague. He co-founded the Waldorf teacher seminar in the Netherlands and is a board member of the Anthroposophical Society in the Netherlands. From 1999 to 2010, he was head of the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum, and remains active for the Free University at the Goetheanum. Christof dedicates himself to pedagogical and anthroposophic topics at home and abroad. He is married and has five children.Winter, Dorit: -

Dorit Winter, MA, brings a cosmopolitan background to all her undertakings. Born in Jerusalem in 1947, she attended kindergarten in Zürich, primary school in Johannesburg and Cape Town, and junior and senior high schools in New York City, graduating from the Rudolf Steiner High School in 1964. Dorit began her Waldorf career in 1973 as a German and class teacher at the Rudolf Steiner School in New York City. Seven years later she joined the Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School, where she coordinated the founding of a new high school. In 1989 she became founder and director of Rudolf Steiner College's satellite teacher training program in San Francisco. In 2001 she accepted the directorship of Bay Area Center for Waldorf Teacher Training, from which she retired in 2014. She is active as mentor, teacher, tutor, and translator. Her translations include Who Was Ita Wegman, vol. 1, by J.E. Zeylmans van Emmichoven, The Joy of Profession by Christof Wiechert, as well as numerous articles.