Early Childhood
Teacher Training Concentration
New Cohort Begins This Summer 2025
26 month Program designed for the busy full-time working teacher.
Place-Based & Play-Based Educational Tenets
The foundation of the Practical & Pedagogical Early Childhood courses providing teacher-candidates a strong foundation in early childhood education.
Areas of Focus:
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- Focus on Child Development, ages 3-6 (Overview of developmental phases all ages)
- Rhythms of the day, week, year & their significance in the life of the classroom and the young child
- Circle Activities, seasonal festivals, crafts & storytelling
- Visual Arts with watercolor painting, drawing
- Speech Arts for the Early Childhood teacher
- Developmentally Appropriate Games & Finger games
- Puppetry, simple puppetry, more complex marionettes and presentations to the children
- Temporal Arts with eurythmy, singing and playing instruments.
- Student Observation, Working witth Diverse Needs, Kindergarten and First Grade Readiness
- Field Mentor support on-site in your Classroom
Additional Coursework
Gradalis Early Childhood Concentration Program offers eight (8) courses for a total of 490 contact hours with the addition of 73 hours credited to the following:
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- Candidate’s Curriculum Project (Due Last Semester)
- Class Study
- Child Study
Other coursework gives candidates a foundation in Steiner’s Philosophical Foundations and how to work with remedial needs, as well as child observation, first grade readiness and a full spectrum of foundational work necessary to become a teacher in schools inspired by Waldorf principles.
Enroll Today to Begin Training
This Summer
“Having earned my Gradalis Teaching Certification, I feel confident providing developmentally appropriate curriculum within my classroom and providing leadership to my school. I know that I can go anywhere in the world and be welcomed within the Waldorf movement.” – 2019 Class Teacher Graduate
Nationally accredited anthroposophically based training.
Gradalis Professional Development Training is a nationally accredited institution. Gradalis Training Programs qualify across state lines for required hours to maintain teaching certifications.
WECAN Associate Member Institute.
The mission of the Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America is to foster a new cultural impulse for the work with the young child from pre-birth to age seven.
“Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.”
–Rudolf Steiner
CONTACT
(720)464-4557
info@gradalis.edu
TEACHING CAMPUS
4725 Miller Street
Wheat Ridge, CO 80033
OFFICE ADDRESS
10661 Utrillo Lane
Northglenn, CO 80234