We are a teacher education program that prepares people to become teachers in Waldorf schools. Our goal is to guide and support our student teachers on a journey of soul-spiritual development and transformation that will continue as life practice and enable them to realize their potential as practicing Waldorf® teachers.

The WISC Team

Developing an Essential Relation to anthroposophy, the spiritual understanding and path that is the source of Waldorf education, is part of the journey both the students and the leadership of the institute are on. We are always re-tuning our educational instrument to harmonize with the time and place we live in, and above all, with the individual students enrolled in the program. WISC continues to grow and develop, just as Waldorf teaching does.

Artistic activities are as abundant in the program as they are in the Waldorf classroom, an essential ingredient for our students' personal and curriculum-related development. The media we engage in range from Music, Sculpture, Visual Arts, Literature to Performing Arts.

Collegial working is a key element in WISC. It begins in the collaborative working of the co-directing Core Groups in Los Angeles and San Diego who plan and administer the program and continues in the various collaborative projects they arrange for the students. Waldorf schools benefit significantly from teachers with preparatory and ongoing practice in listening, communicating and working with colleagues in a group.

At WISC students have continuing opportunities to explore the underlying philosophy of Waldorf Education developed, Rudolf Steiner and by studying his essential books and the indications he gave to the first Waldorf School teachers. We familiarize ourselves with the life phases of the child so astteachers we are able to meet them where they are in their development.

A big part of the teacher education program is for the students to gain practical experience in the classroom by many hours of observations of experienced teachers and practicums in classrooms while being evaluated by master teachers and mentors.