Dear participants,
here is the right place for introducing yourself by telling us something some about your interests in the topic of the course. Apart from sharing some information about yourself, you could also state your wish to communicate with colleagues in community circle meetings. Therefore you should write down some possible times at which you could meet regularly throughout the next weeks, and you should also mention where you live and teach, so that time zones can be considered.
Be brave! It’s a great experience!
I wish you good luck with finding people and then a fruitful collegial exchange.
Greetings Ulrike
Hi!
It seems like I’m gonna be the first participant of the course to introduce myself.
My name is Natalia Bilai and I’m an English teacher from Ukraine, Dnipro. I work in Waldorf Initiative of Dnipro – rather young organization, we are ony four years old.
Though I graduated University as an English teacher, I didn’t plan to teach at that time – I planned to be a translator. And I worked as a translator/office manager for more than ten years. Later on I left office job (there were many reasons to do this), got one more education (teacher for the kids with special needs/speech therapist), started teaching children – individually and in small groups. And only one year ago I came to Waldorf school. That was not very easy year for me, one of the reasons was lack of materials about methods of learning. This spring I was lucky to attend a seminar for Waldorf Foreign Language teachers with Alec Templeton as a lecturer. It helped me a lot, but I still have plenty of questions and a lot of things to learn.
As for media – I think we cannot avoid it in modern world, we cannot live in a bubble – but we need to control its’ usage and understand very well what are we doing and why, as long as we have to teach children to manage the media and to use it in spite of being used by it.
Dear Natalia,
thanks for using this space and introducing yourself.
I totally agree to your statement that we cannot avoid media – so let’s try to find meaningful ways of integrating them.
I hope you will find this course helpful and I am looking forward to reading more contributions from you.
We will soon open a new form of discussion forum – one for each course – where participants cann communicate. Maybe that will be more inviting for people to contribute. We’ll let you know about the new format in the next few days.
Greetings to the Urkaine! Ulrike
Hi Natalia and Ulrike!
My name is Pablo Marchisio. I am from Argentina. I am an English teacher and started working in Waldorf education six years ago. I find this course every useful because I always hesitate when I have to take a decision in connection with how much digital media it is convenient to use in high school. I have got the impression that this course will give me interesting insights and the possibility to connect with other Waldorf teachers from around the world.
Dear Pablo,
nice to hear from you. The whole question of using media in a Waldorf school has taken quite a new turn since schools have been closed down due to the Corona pandemia. How is the situation at your school? Here all the teachers have to develop some kind of homeschooling material. Quite a challenge.
Dear colleagues, I wish you all the best wherever you are in the world right now!
Greetings, Ulrike
Hi, my name is Oriana and I am bi-lingua Italian/English and I teach English.
Although I don’t work in a Waldorf school, I have been following Steiner and his methods for quite some time.
I work in Italy and here we have a project called CLIL – Content and Language Integrated Learning where sujbects are taught in English. I have been part of this project for quite some time now, and decided to follow the FLL on-line course to see if I could get some hints, tools and other to further help the learning process of my students.
I was very pleasantly surprised to see that many of my methods are in common with the FLL Waldorf Language teachers. Evidently time spent on studying Steiner has placed me in the flow.
All my very best to you all
Ory
Hi there!
My name is Benjamin Block. I’m currently teaching class 9 to 11 at Rudolf-Steiner-School Hamburg Bergstedt. While studying English at university, we could also enroll for an online learning course. I did quite like it back then, even though it still needed some improvement. I’m also learning the art of qigong by means of an online learning platform, so I am very open to this kind of approach.
As for schools I do think it is necessary to be open minded as well, but also critical when it comes to implementing new media. I believe this is one of the greatest challenges we have to face in our current educational system. Let’s see what new insight this course will provide me with. 🙂
Hello,
My name is Lotta Schilling. I´m currently participating in the waldorfseminar Kiel to become a waldorf teacher. I only have theoretical knowledge yet but I am really looking forward to my practical year starting this summer.
I hope to learn some new, interesting and/or inspiring methods and tools in this course.
Greetings,
Lotta Schilling
Hi, I am attending the first year class at the Waldorf Seminar in Kiel and have not been teaching at a Waldorf School yet. I used to be an architect and town planner when I realised I would rather work with children and young adults. The last 3 1/2 years I worked as an integration aid in several schools, German and Danish in Flensburg and Schleswig. I had started the Seminar in 2012 but had to stop because of family reasons.
Now I am looking forward to have an exchange with all of you via Elewa.
Hi, I know I am late.. Sorry! But hey, let’s say I’m used to being late by now 🙂
My Name is Anton Barre and I live in Kiel. Before I started at the Waldorflehrerseminar I studied Biology also in Kiel. In 2010-12 I did an apprenticeship as an animal care taker in an animal film school near Hamurg.
I’m want to be a teacher for english and biology, although I must admit to myself: maybe I would like to be a main teacher for classes 1-8.
My first association with Media to me is press, like in news papers. Or maybe TV stations with their news shows. Sadly I think news papers and media are full of new age propaganda, so I don’t have a positive association of the word media. I’m looking forward to change this bad image to a nicer and more differenciated picture of media.
Of course I am aware that there are other meanings to the word media, like audio, text, video etc.
Hi BT,
life long learning is a great goal. For me learning and motivation are fundamentally connected to my inner child. It has brought curiuosity and the ability to be amazed into my emotional repertoire. For that I’m really grateful and like Schiller once said: humans are only truly human when they play.
Why is it humans btw: shouldn’t it be humen? What is this silly anglais lingo for anyways? Modern time PC monkeys? #imjoking
Lol
🙂
Hello,
I’m Lolita Kucinskiene from Lithuania, from Vilnius Waldorf Green School. I’m an English as a foreign language teacher and I was teaching most of my life in a traditional school. Now it’s the third year that I’ve been teaching in Waldorf school and I feel a great need for sharing and discussing language teaching methods in Waldorf school. The question of media literacy is very relevant now and especially during the “lock down” period we confronted with different opinions how much screen we should offer our kids.
I am not quite sure if this is the forum that we use to introduce ourselves and say hi for FR 7 HH – but I will just give it a shot.
I am Christina and currently teaching classes 1, 2 and 12 at Waldorfschule Erlangen. This is my first year of teaching at the school and I feel that I have already learnt a lot during these past months – and looking forward to learning more.
Since I had to teach my 12th graders online for a number of weeks, I am particularly interested in tested, inspiring and Waldorf appropriate ideas of using media other than written texts and the teacher’s voice. So far, we have worked with a recorded musical (“Hamilton”), film, voice recordings and text, including an H5P text based online adventure game. We are beginning to read a novel over the Easter break and I would love to incorporate a project that has the students draw or record interviews or even make a little film. But I realise that, having no experience with such projects, I am somewhat shy.
I am looking forward to getting to know everybody else in the course!
Christina
Hi,
I’m Sina Luig and just like Christina, I’m here for the FR7 HH. Currently I’m at the RSS in Altona, Hamburg learning to teach Gartenbau – I haven’t started teaching languages yet.
Generally, now that media and technology are so easily accessible even to children it is important to cultivate consciousness for media usage from an early age.
Personally, I remember listening to a song in English class in grade 10 or 11 of which I have never forgotten the meaning, topic or tune (it was written and performed by an Australian singer-songwriter and it was about the Vietnam war).
I also remember that it made a great difference to me in which language I watched a movie – somehow the language changed the characters.
Looking to meeting more fellow students/teachers.
Sina
Hello!
My name is Steffi and I am also a participant of course FR7 HH.
I have just started studying at the Freie Hochschule in Stuttgart, aiming to become a class teacher (classes 1 – 8) and equally focussing on English and French. I am really excited to learn more about the Waldorf approach of choosing & using media in a creative, sustainable and useful way.
Looking forward to meeting you in the seminar in a few minutes.
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Dear participants,
here is the right place for introducing yourself by telling us something some about your interests in the topic of the course. Apart from sharing some information about yourself, you could also state your wish to communicate with colleagues in community circle meetings. Therefore you should write down some possible times at which you could meet regularly throughout the next weeks, and you should also mention where you live and teach, so that time zones can be considered.
Be brave! It’s a great experience!
I wish you good luck with finding people and then a fruitful collegial exchange.
Greetings Ulrike
Hi!
It seems like I’m gonna be the first participant of the course to introduce myself.
My name is Natalia Bilai and I’m an English teacher from Ukraine, Dnipro. I work in Waldorf Initiative of Dnipro – rather young organization, we are ony four years old.
Though I graduated University as an English teacher, I didn’t plan to teach at that time – I planned to be a translator. And I worked as a translator/office manager for more than ten years. Later on I left office job (there were many reasons to do this), got one more education (teacher for the kids with special needs/speech therapist), started teaching children – individually and in small groups. And only one year ago I came to Waldorf school. That was not very easy year for me, one of the reasons was lack of materials about methods of learning. This spring I was lucky to attend a seminar for Waldorf Foreign Language teachers with Alec Templeton as a lecturer. It helped me a lot, but I still have plenty of questions and a lot of things to learn.
As for media – I think we cannot avoid it in modern world, we cannot live in a bubble – but we need to control its’ usage and understand very well what are we doing and why, as long as we have to teach children to manage the media and to use it in spite of being used by it.
Dear Natalia,
thanks for using this space and introducing yourself.
I totally agree to your statement that we cannot avoid media – so let’s try to find meaningful ways of integrating them.
I hope you will find this course helpful and I am looking forward to reading more contributions from you.
We will soon open a new form of discussion forum – one for each course – where participants cann communicate. Maybe that will be more inviting for people to contribute. We’ll let you know about the new format in the next few days.
Greetings to the Urkaine! Ulrike
Hi Natalia and Ulrike!
My name is Pablo Marchisio. I am from Argentina. I am an English teacher and started working in Waldorf education six years ago. I find this course every useful because I always hesitate when I have to take a decision in connection with how much digital media it is convenient to use in high school. I have got the impression that this course will give me interesting insights and the possibility to connect with other Waldorf teachers from around the world.
Dear Pablo,
nice to hear from you. The whole question of using media in a Waldorf school has taken quite a new turn since schools have been closed down due to the Corona pandemia. How is the situation at your school? Here all the teachers have to develop some kind of homeschooling material. Quite a challenge.
Dear colleagues, I wish you all the best wherever you are in the world right now!
Greetings, Ulrike
Hi, my name is Oriana and I am bi-lingua Italian/English and I teach English.
Although I don’t work in a Waldorf school, I have been following Steiner and his methods for quite some time.
I work in Italy and here we have a project called CLIL – Content and Language Integrated Learning where sujbects are taught in English. I have been part of this project for quite some time now, and decided to follow the FLL on-line course to see if I could get some hints, tools and other to further help the learning process of my students.
I was very pleasantly surprised to see that many of my methods are in common with the FLL Waldorf Language teachers. Evidently time spent on studying Steiner has placed me in the flow.
All my very best to you all
Ory
Hi there!
My name is Benjamin Block. I’m currently teaching class 9 to 11 at Rudolf-Steiner-School Hamburg Bergstedt. While studying English at university, we could also enroll for an online learning course. I did quite like it back then, even though it still needed some improvement. I’m also learning the art of qigong by means of an online learning platform, so I am very open to this kind of approach.
As for schools I do think it is necessary to be open minded as well, but also critical when it comes to implementing new media. I believe this is one of the greatest challenges we have to face in our current educational system. Let’s see what new insight this course will provide me with. 🙂
Hello,
My name is Lotta Schilling. I´m currently participating in the waldorfseminar Kiel to become a waldorf teacher. I only have theoretical knowledge yet but I am really looking forward to my practical year starting this summer.
I hope to learn some new, interesting and/or inspiring methods and tools in this course.
Greetings,
Lotta Schilling
Hi, I am attending the first year class at the Waldorf Seminar in Kiel and have not been teaching at a Waldorf School yet. I used to be an architect and town planner when I realised I would rather work with children and young adults. The last 3 1/2 years I worked as an integration aid in several schools, German and Danish in Flensburg and Schleswig. I had started the Seminar in 2012 but had to stop because of family reasons.
Now I am looking forward to have an exchange with all of you via Elewa.
Hi, I know I am late.. Sorry! But hey, let’s say I’m used to being late by now 🙂
My Name is Anton Barre and I live in Kiel. Before I started at the Waldorflehrerseminar I studied Biology also in Kiel. In 2010-12 I did an apprenticeship as an animal care taker in an animal film school near Hamurg.
I’m want to be a teacher for english and biology, although I must admit to myself: maybe I would like to be a main teacher for classes 1-8.
My first association with Media to me is press, like in news papers. Or maybe TV stations with their news shows. Sadly I think news papers and media are full of new age propaganda, so I don’t have a positive association of the word media. I’m looking forward to change this bad image to a nicer and more differenciated picture of media.
Of course I am aware that there are other meanings to the word media, like audio, text, video etc.
Hi BT,
life long learning is a great goal. For me learning and motivation are fundamentally connected to my inner child. It has brought curiuosity and the ability to be amazed into my emotional repertoire. For that I’m really grateful and like Schiller once said: humans are only truly human when they play.
Why is it humans btw: shouldn’t it be humen? What is this silly anglais lingo for anyways? Modern time PC monkeys? #imjoking
Lol
🙂
Hello,
I’m Lolita Kucinskiene from Lithuania, from Vilnius Waldorf Green School. I’m an English as a foreign language teacher and I was teaching most of my life in a traditional school. Now it’s the third year that I’ve been teaching in Waldorf school and I feel a great need for sharing and discussing language teaching methods in Waldorf school. The question of media literacy is very relevant now and especially during the “lock down” period we confronted with different opinions how much screen we should offer our kids.
Hi there,
I am not quite sure if this is the forum that we use to introduce ourselves and say hi for FR 7 HH – but I will just give it a shot.
I am Christina and currently teaching classes 1, 2 and 12 at Waldorfschule Erlangen. This is my first year of teaching at the school and I feel that I have already learnt a lot during these past months – and looking forward to learning more.
Since I had to teach my 12th graders online for a number of weeks, I am particularly interested in tested, inspiring and Waldorf appropriate ideas of using media other than written texts and the teacher’s voice. So far, we have worked with a recorded musical (“Hamilton”), film, voice recordings and text, including an H5P text based online adventure game. We are beginning to read a novel over the Easter break and I would love to incorporate a project that has the students draw or record interviews or even make a little film. But I realise that, having no experience with such projects, I am somewhat shy.
I am looking forward to getting to know everybody else in the course!
Christina
Hi,
I’m Sina Luig and just like Christina, I’m here for the FR7 HH. Currently I’m at the RSS in Altona, Hamburg learning to teach Gartenbau – I haven’t started teaching languages yet.
Generally, now that media and technology are so easily accessible even to children it is important to cultivate consciousness for media usage from an early age.
Personally, I remember listening to a song in English class in grade 10 or 11 of which I have never forgotten the meaning, topic or tune (it was written and performed by an Australian singer-songwriter and it was about the Vietnam war).
I also remember that it made a great difference to me in which language I watched a movie – somehow the language changed the characters.
Looking to meeting more fellow students/teachers.
Sina
Hello!
My name is Steffi and I am also a participant of course FR7 HH.
I have just started studying at the Freie Hochschule in Stuttgart, aiming to become a class teacher (classes 1 – 8) and equally focussing on English and French. I am really excited to learn more about the Waldorf approach of choosing & using media in a creative, sustainable and useful way.
Looking forward to meeting you in the seminar in a few minutes.
Best, Steffi