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BIRTH TO SEVEN CERTIFICATE

OUR FULL TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAM

This low-residency program is structured over three years. Four residential summer sessions “bookend” the program, with residential weeks during the school years. Embedded in the program design are:

  • a practicum/classroom experience;

  • mentoring with an experienced Waldorf early childhood educator;

  • a collegial approach that builds connections within each cohort and beyond;

  • a birth-to-three certificate.*

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The course takes 37 months to complete. New sessions start each summer.

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Our students work together through experiential activity, artistic development, practical classroom experience, reflective discussion, together with enlivening and stimulating presentations of content.

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Tuition for 2023 cohort is $22,290. Click here for payment schedule.

 

WECAN Membership - Full Member Institute
The Sophia’s Hearth Teacher Education Program is recognized as a full member of WECAN. Graduates who complete the five hundred hours in the Birth to Seven program receive a certificate confirming that this training is recognized by the International Association for Steiner/Waldorf Early Childhood Education.

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* The birth-to-three certificate is acknowledged by WECAN and embedded in the program. Graduates will receive both certificates with successful completion of the program.

Next Session starts 6/26/2023

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Program Leadership:

Katherine Scharff, Susan Weber, Janene Ping, and Jane Swain

  • At Sophia's Hearth you will study in a teacher education center imbedded in the daily care and observation of infants, toddlers, and nursery aged children in our full time program.

  • You will study side by side with the work of our innovative parent-infant and parent-child program.  

  • You will study with the North American pioneers and leaders of the birth to three work in Waldorf early childhood education.

  • You will study with master puppeteer and kindergarten teacher Janene Ping, whose teaching practice is deeply involved in innovative research.

  • Every module brings you to beautiful southern New Hampshire where you will be deeply renewed by the beauty of nature and the cultural life of the region – music, traditional folk dance, a woods or mountain hike, a lake swim.

Why study at Sophia's Hearth?  

 

Hear what our students have to say about the program.
The Birth-to-Seven Certificate is for:

  • Those who wish to complete a Waldorf early childhood teacher education program that prepares for teaching children in the first seven years;

  • Teachers who teach in nursery or kindergarten settings;

  • Teachers who facilitate parent-infant and parent-toddler classes and those who work with expectant parents;

  • Early childhood teachers working with toddlers and nursery children; or

  • Childcare providers in center- or home-based care.

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