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Employees and working principles

Riddle

"A person with six eyes that are good,
with four ears that are full of joy and sorrow,
with eight hands that make things and turn over dough,
with five mouths that sing, comfort and give love,
with lots of hair to tussle, fast legs to run,
and yet a heart full of light and a constant smile on his face.
Do you all know who this person is?"

Solution: An after-school care worker at our school.

Our employees

We are a team of 16 educators and social pedagogues. We are supported by a housekeeper, a person on federal voluntary service and occasional interns.

The basis of our work is the Waldorf education founded by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) and based on his anthroposophical understanding of the human being, which is constantly undergoing further development in Waldorf educational institutions around the world. Our highest goal is the education of the human being to freedom, which becomes possible in the greatest possible harmony of the thinking, feeling, willing and acting of the individual with his individual inviolable core of being, the ego.

The most important means and medium of educational work is the reflective and self-educating personality of the educator as a stable and trustworthy reference person. The motto: "You are more effective by what you are than by what you do" encompasses the pedagogical effect.

The sources of our work are study, observation and knowledge of the laws of human development. The most important focal points of our educational work with children aged 6-10 years are in the areas of Waldorf education: Role modeling and imitation, training and nurturing the senses and experiencing a rhythmic daily routine and the course of the year.

On the basis of Waldorf education, our after-school care center aims to create the space to support and strengthen the development of each child's abilities in the community.

The children should be able to experience the world around them as beautiful and valuable so that they want to help shape it with joy. We have made the sensitive perception of the individual, often seemingly contradictory impulses and motives of each child our important and indispensable task. We therefore believe that knowledge of the special needs, opportunities and difficulties of the second seven years of life is of fundamental importance for our educational work.

We employees want to consistently focus on the growing children and enable them to develop their mental, emotional and physical abilities as well as their social behavior in a balanced and healthy way. We want to offer your children the framework to develop into independent, responsible and socially competent people in accordance with their talents and abilities.