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Grades 6-8 Teacher Rejuvenation with Warren Lee Cohen

Adolescence is challenging and navigating middle school requires a new level of intentionality from class teachers. Dealing with physical and emotional changes can take young people, along with their parents and teachers, to their breaking points. If we persist in treating adolescents like children, they will respond with the worst of child-like behaviors. It is then vital for class teachers to evolve alongside their students. As the curriculum heads into more factual, scientific, and academic territory, the class teacher is called to meet the world with objective heart forces and an ability to permeate all the subjects with beauty. The arts, deep truthfulness, and humor all come to the aid of striving teachers in their relationships with teens, as they struggle to find their inner harmony again. It is important that teachers keep a light shining on what is beautiful in humanity and in the natural world.

Our very experienced faculty will collaborate together to build a rich, artistic, informative, and rejuvenating week.

Warren Lee Cohen Warren just graduated his second eighth grade class from Toronto Waldorf School. He has served as a class teacher in the U.S., an adult educator in the U.K., and as Director of Waldorf Teacher Education at RSCT in Canada. His publications include The Waldorf Book of Blessings, Raising the Soul: Practical Exercises for Personal Development, Baking Bread with Children, and his latest book, Celebrate Passover.