Certificate Completion Track

Honor Your Waldorf Teaching Experience

While each of our teacher education courses supports the development of essential capacities for Waldorf educators, Great Lakes Waldorf Institute (GLWI) also honors and recognizes your years of lead teaching in a Waldorf school, as well as any prior training you may have completed, as you work toward your Waldorf Teaching Certificate.

We offer a Certificate Completion Program (CCP) for active teachers with a minimum of six consecutive years of lead teaching in a Waldorf school, who have not yet earned a formal Waldorf teacher training credential and who wish to earn an AWSNA-affiliated certificate of completion.

Individualized Program

This program is highly individualized and varies from teacher to teacher based on previous experience and training. To learn how the program can be tailored to you, please schedule a meeting with our Executive Director, Monika Sutherland, to review any credits you may have earned through another training institute and to evaluate your prior teaching experience.

Your Waldorf teaching experience and prior teacher education coursework may make you eligible for a revised course of study with Great Lakes Waldorf Institute, including possible fieldwork exemptions and/or credit for courses already completed.

Through a process of review, we will be able to recommend a specific course of study designed to support you as you move toward completion of your certificate. This process clarifies course selection and outlines how the program will both draw from—and deepen—your classroom practice and experience as a Waldorf educator.

Learn More

If you would like to learn more about Waldorf teaching, teacher education at Great Lakes Waldorf Institute, or our application process, we invite you to contact our Executive Director, Monika Sutherland, at monika.sutherland@greatlakeswaldorf.org, (414)299-3820, or sign up for a meeting using her calendar link.

You can also fill out our Inquiry Form or contact Admissions Coordinator, Kira Chard, at admissions@greatlakeswaldorf.org.

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