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Intensive Dates:
December 26, 2011 - January 31, 2012
You choose any 10-day period convenient for you.
Intensive Fee: USD $100
Intensive Setting: Your Computer, Your Home or School
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Why an 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 Class Seven Intensive – online! Following the successful introduction of online Waldorf workshops through our Halftime Webinars and Online Teachers’ Conferences, we are ready to expand and present the first-ever Waldorf online teachers’ Intensive.
What Will I Get? And What Won’t I Get?
Once you have chosen the 10-day period convenient to you, you will receive links to lectures by Eugene Schwartz (click here to see the lecture topics). Most of these will be links to audio files of 60 – 75 minute lectures. Eugene has taught Classe Seven four times, and is regarded as one of the preeminent lecturers on adolescence and the Upper Classes in the Waldorf movement. For several years he has led the Essential Grade Seven conferences in Mancos, CO. Most of the lectures we are offering are recordings from the Mancos conferences, and several have been specially recorded for this Intensive.
You will receive a thorough background in the developmental changes of the Class Seven student and insights into the significance of the Class Seven curriculum that you will receive nowhere else. You will also be given a strong foundation in teaching History, Physiology, Perspective Drawing, Mathematics, Geography, and Language Arts.
And what won’t you get? There will also be two lengthy slideshows on Class Seven Physics and Chemistry, but, since there will not be a video component to this Intensive, there will not be any Physics or Chemistry demonstrations. There will not be any demonstrations of drawing or painting, although the download that you will receive on The Elements of Grade Seven will be a rich storehouse of examples of student work. Music and recitation will not be covered, nor will you have a chance to do any eurythmy.
Clearly, there are pluses and minuses! You will have to decide what works best for you.
Here is how it will work:
All of the lectures will be available online during your ten-day participation period from December 26 to January 31. This means that participants can listen to the content whenever they wish, and as often as they wish, for ten days. (How often have you taken notes as rapidly as possible at a lecture and wished in vain that you could hear it again?)
“But I’m not good with computers!”
Don’t worry! The conference “interface” is completely user-friendly! The hundreds of participants in our online Halftime Webinars, our Northern Hemisphere Grades Four and Five Online Conferences, and the Rudolf Steiner Course all experienced very few difficulties, and most of these were resolved in a few minutes. All you need is broadband access to the Internet. We recommend Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer as the most reliable Web browsers for this conference (Google’s Chrome browser has not yet been tested).
Your Fee - and Your Savings
The fee for the conference week is USD $100.00. 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 spend eight to ten times this amount to attend a Class Seven conference in your own country. In these difficult economic times, such savings can make a significant difference. The fee is so low that you may wish to take part in this Intensive even if you are joining a bigger conference, just to deepen and intensify what you learned at one of the training centers.
We hope that you will join us!
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