Christof Wiechert. A Waldorf teacher for three decades at the Waldorf school in the Netherlands he went to, Christof co-founded the Dutch State Waldorf Teacher Training and co-created the Art of Child Study course. For many years he was a Council member in the Anthroposophical Society in the Netherlands and was 15 years in research institutions before becoming head of the Pedagogical Section from 2001-2010. Christof has many publications on paedagogical theme and continues to work for the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum in different countries
Claus-Peter Röh After his studies of Education he worked from 1983 on as teacher at the Waldorf School in Flensburg, Germany. In addition to teaching, he worked at the Pedagogical University in Flensburg and gave courses at various teacher training seminars in Germany. Since 1998 he has been a member of the initiative group of the Pedagogical Section in Germany. In September 2010 he joined the Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum in Dornach/Switzerland. Since January 2011 he has been leading the Educational Department of the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum in Dornach/Switzerland together with Florian Osswald.
Karla Neves Karla is a class teacher at Escola Waldorf Rudolf Steiner, Sao Paulo, Brazil and a professor at the Faculdade Rudolf Steiner and Pedagogical Coordinator of Seminário Waldorf de Brasília. Graduated with BSc in Architecture from UFRJ and Master degree on Education from USP, Universidade de São Paulo, she is a member of Grupo de Ciências no Brasil da FEWB, member of the Mathematics and Geometry Group, Federação das Escolas Waldorf no Brasil, member of the First Class of Spiritual Science and member of the Pedagogical Section in Brazil.
Christoph Jaffke Prof. Dr. Christoph Jaffke attended a German Waldorf School and went on to study educational science, English and history. After completing the state-school teacher-training he worked at one of the Waldorf Schools in Stuttgart from 1967 until 2000. In 2005 and 2006, he was a visiting professor at Hiroshima State University and at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo. In 1994, he graduated from Augsburg University with a PhD. His thesis covered foreign-language teaching to children of primary school age. He has been involved in teacher-training at the Waldorf Teacher-Training College in Stuttgart since 1975. He started the series Materials for Language Teachers at Waldorf School in 1976 and was editor-in-chief of these publications for 30 years. In 2006, he became one of the founding teachers of the fourth Waldorf School in Stuttgart, Waldorfschule Silberwald, where he taught until 2011. Since then he has worked in many European countries, in South America and Asia giving seminars and counselling Waldorf English teachers. In 1989, he was the first Waldorf teacher to be officially invited to China to give a contribution to the International Congress of Applied Linguistics at Jiaotong University in Xi’an. He has contributed to all of the seven Asian Waldorf Teachers’ Conferences (2005 – 2017).
Ellen Fjeld Koettker Ellen Fjeld KoettkerMS. Ed has been a Waldorf teacher for 40 years. First in USA, then in Norway where she has been instrumental in building up a Waldorf school. For the last 14 years Ellen Fjeld Koettker has been working at the Rudolf Steiner University College in Oslo. At the University College Ellen Fjeld Koettker is lecturing students who wish to become Waldorf teachers in subjects like anthroposophy, math, religion, special education and general pedagogical subjects and questions. Ellen Fjeld Koettker is the leader of the Pedagogical Section in Norway. She is a member of The International Forum for Waldorf Schools (IF) and The European Council of Steiner Waldorf Education (ECSWE). Ellen Fjeld Koettker has been mentoring and visiting Sloka Waldorf School in Hyderabad, India since 2003.
Dušan Pleštil Dušan Pleštil studied biology and chemistry, wrote dissertation on the theme Goethes Concept of Living Nature, has been teaching for 21 years at the Waldorf School in Semily (Czechia), nine years as a class teacher and the rest as an upper class teacher for biology and chemistry, active in the teacher training, publishes in the themes waldorf education, gotheanism and anthroposophy, member of the International Forum (Hague Circle).
Trevor Mepham Trevor Mepham has worked in Waldorf education for 32 years. Beginning as a Class Teacher in the south-west of England, he later worked as a teacher adviser and member of the executive group of the UK Steiner Waldorf Schools’ Fellowship. For 12 years Trevor was a lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Plymouth and was co-director of a Steiner BA Programme. For the past ten years he has served as Principal of two publicly-funded Steiner schools in England.
Trevor lives in Somerset with his wife and is father to five children.
Porn Panosot Since graduating from Chulalongkorn Medical School, Bangkok in 1980, Porn spent the first decade of his career working for the health of child prostitutes and abused children. After ten years of hard work, he realized that this could not cure anything without healthy education for the whole society. In 1998, he founded Panyotai Waldorf School in Bangkok and has been working as its school doctor since then. His work is always composed of three prespectives – medical, educational, and social with the aim of a healthy development of the children’s physical, mental, and spiritual health altogether. His strategy consists of both curative and preventive work. This led to the recognition for his work from Ashoka International and the Task Force for Children in Thailand.
Jorinde Stockmar Jorinde is a eurythmist and curative eurythmist who grew up in Germany. Since her father was a Waldorf teacher, he enrolled his daughter in a Rudolf Steiner School. She went on to study eurythmy and curative eurythmy in Dornach, Switzerland. She has been working in this field with kindergarteners and school children for 40 years while also conducting workshops and seminars for eurythmists, curative eurythmists, and teachers in Europe and other countries such as New Zealand, Japan, Thailand and Malaysia for more than 30 years. She is also the author of Eurythmie im Kindergarten
Shiori Ando Shiori studied at Emerson College (1997-2000) and Tonalis Centre of Music (2000-2002). She has been teaching at Kyotanabe Steiner School (Kyoto, Japan) since 2003 as a class teacher and upper school class guardian, and teaches music, history of music and history and literature there. Shiori also leads the school orchestra and the teachers’ choir. A recent project of hers is the creation of an orchestra involving all the teachers of the school.
Henning Kullak-Ublick Born 1955 in Argentina, worked as a class-teacher for 26 years in Flensburg, Germany. He is a board-member of the German Association of Waldorf schools, the Friends of Steiner-Waldorf Education, and the International Forum of Steiner/Waldorf Pedagogy. He gives lectures in teacher-training for class-teachers, and publishes the monthly magazine "Erziehungskunst". Books: "Jedes Kind ein Könner“ ("Every child is capable“) and coeditor with Tomáš Zdražil of "The Foundations of Human Experiencein the Cultures of the World“. Henning is the international coordinator of the Waldorf 100 centennial (https://www.waldorf-100.org/en/)
Andrew Hill Andrew Hill has taken three 8 year Class Teacher cycles, and taught high school up to Grade 12. He is Head of School at Glenaeon Rudolf Steiner School, Sydney, Australia and has been involved in teacher training for many years at the Glenaeon Intensives as well as in Waldorf schools in South East Asia.
Jeong hyun, Lee (Rosa) - study Korean traditional music in the University - study waldorf education (teacher training) in Emerson college in UK - worked in the Cheonggye Free waldorf school as a class teacher (class 1-8) - study waldorf elementary school music (class 1-8) at Sunbridge institute in the United States.
Molly McIntyre Molly McIntyre is a long time licensed Speech Pathologist, Waldorf Remedial teacher, Speech Formation artist with a diploma from Dornach and a children's book author. She was co-course carrier for the Anthroposophical Therapeutic Speech Training that was based in England for 7 years and has been teaching speech in the teacher training program at Rudolf Steiner College for several years.
Jutta Rohde-Röh Studies of Pedagogy and Eurythmy in Stuttgart and Hamburg, Germany. Co-Founding of the Steiner School in Flensburg and a number of training centers. Eurythmy teacher since 1983. Lecturer on Education for Lower Secondary Education at University in Leiden, Netherlands. Main interest: Research and Development of Eurythmy in School and Training. Active in the German Organisation of Professional Eurythmists, the Initiative circle of Pedagogical Eurythmy as well as in the Advisory Council for Training within the German Federation of Steiner Schools.
John Chalmers John Chalmers has worked in Waldorf Education since the 1980"s. He has taught drama in the upper school in Sacramento, Hawaii, the Philippines and Thailand. He studied Philosophy and Art at the University of California and did his graduate work under the title; Philosophy and The Imagination, at California State University San Francisco/Sacramento. He trained in Waldorf Education at Rudolf Steiner College in Fair Oaks, California. He has been active in pedagogical curriculum research and development in Thailand and most recently from 2016-2018, as a Pedagogical Director in the U.S.A.
Noela Maletz I grew up and was educated in Queensland. I taught in State High Schools in Queensland and England and encountered Anthroposophy and Waldorf Education which led me to train at Emerson College for two years. In 1975 I returned to live in South Australia and to become a founding parent (and later teacher) in the Mt Barker Waldorf School, and to co-found Ngeringa, a social therapy centre for young adults with intellectual disabilities. The time at Emerson built on and illuminated my experiences in teaching Art, English and History to adolescents and for many years I taught these subjects at Mt Barker. Eventually this led to a passionate interest in the Parzival story and its “right place” in the Year Eleven curriculum. In 2000-2001 I completed a Master of Social Science, and from 2003 divided my time between lecturing at Universities in South Australia and working in an established private counselling practice in Adelaide. I currently work full time in private practice as a counsellor and a supervisor and lead workshops and retreats. Themes in my life are the mysteries of biography, care for the soul and care for nature. I am grateful my life has offered me the opportunities to be active in understanding all three of these themes. I bring to every encounter my wholehearted attention, my abundant interest, my searching curiosity and my willingness to be, alongside others, an existential explorer of an issue, a theme, a block or a way forward ... or just a soulful companion.
Peter Elsner Peter Elsner studied at the Academy of fine Arts in Braunschweig. From the beginning of his artistic biography he was interested in drawing, painting, sculpture and music. This led to the foundation of an interdisciplinary art and research project called HEAD RESONANCE Company, dedicated to realizing ideas and researching laws relating to the manifestation of an idea in time and space. The HRC was working between 1978-1984 in a wide field of artistic activities like documentation, video, photography, graphic, painting, sculpture, design, music, performance, installation, etc. 1975 Peter Elsner began an artistic project to research the universal ideas and the specialized structures in nature and culture. This was leading into the interest of Anthroposophy by Rudolf Steiner and the Metamorphosis idea of J.W. Goethe. This interest was deepened during the studies 1984-1989 at the art teacher education at the Goethean Study Center in Vienna. After finishing his studies Peter Elsner was teaching and lecturing as a full time teacher from 1990-1997 at the Goethean Studies Center in Vienna drawing, painting and sculpture in connection to the metamorphosis idea of plant, animal and human being. Between 1994 and 1997 he was working as a guest tutor at the Snellman college in Helsinki and the Forum in Hamburg. Since 1998 he is living in Helsinki and teaching sculpture and metamorphosis in the Goethean art and art teacher education at the Snellman college.