Christiane Stanley teaches the grades 1-3 cohort at Madrona School. A faculty member at the school for over two decades, she has helped students across the grades classes grow and flourish.
Ms. Christiane was born and raised in the Ruhr Valley, Germany in a family of teachers. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Bonn, and then completed a four-year Waldorf teacher Masters Degree program in Bochum, Germany that included a study year in the United Kingdom. Prior to joining the Madrona School faculty, she spent nearly a decade teaching at Waldorf schools in Germany and Dublin, Ireland.
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More about Ms. Christiane:
Pastimes. I love my animals – cats and dogs, but mostly cats. What I always try to have in my life is enchantment, and I find this in connecting with nature, and the spiritual dimensions of the natural world.
On Teaching and Connectedness. I have viewed my in-person teaching role this year, during a global pandemic, as a humanitarian necessity. In our society we often talk about connectivity, and have many devices that are supposed to connect us. But there is also something lost when we must rely too heavily on those devices. The best learning takes place when we are humanly connected – through a hug, a smile, or consolation during a difficult moment. In our school, children learn through experience and connection about their own humanity, and learn what it means to truly be together as humans.
Madrona School. I love teaching at Madrona School in the Waldorf method because the children and I have this wonderful freedom.
I enjoy working with the smaller class sizes. It is really a Renaissance method of teaching, one that provides the teacher with enough autonomy to experience the children, consider their needs, and tailor the curriculum to those needs. Every child – every class – is different.
