The Online Grade Eight Intensive
December 1, 2014 - February 27, 2015
With Eugene Schwartz & Roberto Trostli
Click Here for Eugene Schwartz Bio
Read David Kennedy’s interview with Eugene Schwartz on WaldorfToday.com.
Eugene answers a number of incisive questions about the role of online Waldorf conferences and the future of Waldorf education.
Click here to view their conversation.
Conference Dates:
December 1, 2014 - February 27, 2015
You choose any 14-day period convenient for you.
Conference Fee: USD $250
Conference Setting: Your Computer, Your Home or School
Click here to view Grade 8 Lecture/Video Contents
Click here to Register for Grade 8
Why an Online Intensive?
The intense summer conference schedule means that a great deal of meeting time must be squeezed into a few short weeks and a handful of conference locales. We frequently have to lament that our conference presenters could only be in one place at one time . . .
. . . until now, that is! Today’s Internet makes it possible to overcome at least some of the limitations of space and time, and it makes it possible to offer an Essential Grade Eight Intensive – online! Five years of enthusiastic participation by Waldorf teachers worldwide have proven that the online format is an effective and efficient way to gain the breadth and depth needed for the school year to come.
Although it does not offer the detailed and voluminous content of the Grade 6 and Grade 7 Online Conferences, the Grade 8 Intensive nonetheless will provide you with a solid foundation for your eighth grade work -- as well as some provocative contemplations on life after eighth grade that no other conference would even touch upon. Take a look at the Intensive Contents to view the comprehensive range of this course.
Here is how it will work:
Once you have chosen the 14-day period convenient to you, you will receive links to over 25 lectures and presentations by Eugene Schwartz. Roberto Trostli, master Waldorf teacher and author of Physics is Fun, will be presenting Physics demonstrations and Chemistry experiments in a series of remarkable videos. Most of these will be links to audio files of 60 – 75 minute lectures (divided into digestible segments of 15-20 minutes). Several of the links will lead to videos in which Grade Eight student work will be illuminated by commentary on the Grade Eight curriculum. All of the lecture/presentations will be available online during your 14-day participation period. This means that participants can listen to the content whenever they wish, and as often as they wish, for 14 days. (How often have you taken notes as rapidly as possible at a lecture and wished in vain that you could hear it again?)
And yes, there will be handouts. PDFs of relevant Grade Eight resource material will be available for you to download during the Intensive weeks.
“But I’m not good with computers!”
Don’t worry! The Intensive “interface” is completely user-friendly! Our Intensive support team is as close as an email, text, or phone call. The over 900 participants in our five years of online Halftime Webinars and Grades Three, Four, Five, Six, and Seven Online Conferences experienced very few difficulties, and most were resolved in just minutes. You do need good broadband access to the Internet and we recommend Firefox, Chrome, and Safari as the most reliable Web browsers for this Intensive.
Your Fee - and Your Savings
The fee for the 2 Intensive weeks is USD $250.00. That is all that you pay. Since you are participating from your home or school, there are no travel expenses, no accommodations expenses, no dining expenses. Many of you would have to considerably more than this amount to attend a Grade Eight conference at a training center. Click here for a comparison of conference expenses. In these difficult economic times, such savings can make a significant difference. And no other Waldorf conference will allow you to leave such a small carbon footprint.
We hope that you will join us!
Click here to view Grade 8 Lecture/Video Contents
Click here to Register for Grade 8