Discussion Groups

Saturday – Tuesday, 7.15 – 8.30 pm

V.39 Media and AI in the Classroom
Robert Neumann
How do we use AI in the classroom?
How and when do we use digital media?
The focus should be on exchanging ideas.

V.40 (bilingual) What’s the Idea Lying behind a Geometric Problem?
Steffen Brasch, Thomas Neukirchner
How do we solve geometric problems? We would like to reflect on this question with you by examining geometric puzzles by Catriona Shearer.
Usually, we work with geometrical problems by switching between analysis and playful ways of solving them. Our focus is to create awareness for this process.
What constitutes a satisfactory solution? A complete proof, or an idea that may have been the basis for the problem?

V.41 Math as a Journey of Exploration
Birte Vestergaard
Creating a classroom environment where students feel safe to fail, safe to ask questions and to share their ideas. How this safety makes it possible to turn the differences of academic levels among students into valuable teaching resources
On this basis: How can math be taught as a journey of exploration, using discovery sheets, that make the students discover mathematical laws themselves working in small groups?
How to create own discovery sheets

V.44 (bilingual) Education for Sustainable Development (ESD): The Great Socio-Ecological Transformation
Gunter Keller
If we follow our world and current global events today, we are becoming increasingly aware that we are facing major social challenges and changes. This is about the sustainability of our planet and the sustainability of our human society. It is a question of whether we can develop a way of life that uses our resources carefully, sparingly and considerately and at the same time enables a »good life« for as many people as possible.
In this forum, we want to address the question of how we can prepare our students for this socio-ecological transformation and how we can and must further develop our schools and our curriculum.

V.45 What is the Minimum Relationship of Waldorf Education to Anthroposophy?
Martyn Rawson