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The London Waldorf Teacher Training Seminar
(LWTTS; Registered Charity 801842) offers a two year course, at Rudolf Steiner House in London. It is part-time, enabling those who wish to train to do so, while still continuing to fulfil other domestic or professional obligations.
The whole-day sessions are on Saturdays, with an August holiday and short breaks at Christmas and Easter. Between the first
and second years at the end of July there is an intensive eight-day summer school.
Artistic activities are balanced with curriculum studies, and have been evolved with a view to furthering qualities and
faculties which will stand the teacher in good stead, however unpredictable the classroom situation proves to be. If the teacher can develop an awareness of the needs of a particular class as well as for each pupil
in it, the teaching skills necessary for the immediate situation, which any teacher may need in any classroom situation, will more likely to be forthcoming and the education effective for the whole human being.
Those graduating from the course have gone on to teach successfully in all departments of Lower and Upper School as well as
Kindergartens and Playgroups. This has been mostly in the UK and Ireland, though some have left to teach in other parts of Europe and in cultures even further field. It is mostly mature students who are attracted to
the course. The majority intend to teach, or are already in the profession. However, many parents have also found the course enriching and helpful in their task of rearing children.
The course is recognised by the Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship who determine the criteria
that all the UK training courses fulfil in their several modes.
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