Begin your journey to become a certified Waldorf teacher! Join our three-year Waldorf teacher training program beginning this fall.
Waldorf Teacher Training Program
Begins September 19, 2025
Evangeline Wolfe, BACWTT graduate, with her 4th grade class, Berkeley Rose Waldorf School.
Who is Preparing the Young to Care for Our World?
What is the task of the teacher of children in the 21st Century? Are we truly honing the capacities that the next generation needs to develop to be able to face coming challenges? As Albert Einstein famously said, “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
Preparing oneself to become a Waldorf teacher means being willing to find new ways to approach the issues of our times, to think new thoughts. As teachers, we have a responsibility to sort through our own ideas so we can cultivate space for something new—first in ourselves, then in our students. As teachers, we stand in a middle ground, passing on knowledge and wisdom from the past while creating space for children to create and move into the future.
To quote Maya Angelou, “I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place.”
These words are an inspiration for the Waldorf teacher: stand firmly in the present, with great respect for the past, helping the young to meet the future with integrity.
Students, San Francisco Waldorf High School.
Inner Work and Outer Preparation
To stand in front of children with more than just knowledge and information but with generational wisdom that has a sense for the past, present, and future, requires a process of both inner and outer schooling. Preparing to be a Waldorf teacher is a process of self-growth and personal discovery. Our program is designed to support you on this journey.
BACWTT students in Eurythmy class.
If we are educating children to be open and creative in their thinking, we must be flexible and free in our own thought processes too. If we would like them to stay centered and be courageous in the face of future challenges, then we must model and encourage the same in our classrooms. If we want them to develop an active and purposeful interest in the world and, especially, in those aspects most pressing in our time—social, technological, and ecological—we must present the world to them with truthful idealism and genuine enthusiasm.
There are significant stepping stones that we need to cross to become teachers who can educate the young in a healthy and vigorous way. At the heart of our program lies processes that support awakening, warming, dissolving old habits, and renewing interest and love for the world.
Tuition Fee: $9,600
Please inquire about our tuition assistance program.
For more information, please contact:
tiffany@bacwtt.org | (415) 479-4400 | www.bacwtt.org
