ABOUT

Prof. Dr. Christoph Jaffke attended the Rudolf Steiner School in Wuppertal and after studies in Tuebingen, Cologne and Edinburgh, began teaching English at a Waldorf School in Stuttgart in 1967. He is one of the most experienced English teachers in the Waldorf movement. In 1976, he founded the series Materials for Language Teaching at Rudolf Steiner Waldorf Schools.Since 1975, he has been involved in training English teachers at the Freie Hochschule Stuttgart, Seminar for Waldorf Education. In 1994, he published the first scientific study on the theoretical background and methods of foreign language teaching in the lower grades of Waldorf schools and in mainstream schools.  In 2005, he was a visiting professor at Hiroshima University, and the following year at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo. In September 2006, he became one of the co-founders of the fourth Waldorf School in Stuttgart, where he taught the lower classes until 2011. In 2012 in Guangzhou, he and Monika Boyd instituted the annual Conference for Waldorf English Teachers in China. His international teaching, lecturing and coaching engagements have also taken him to these countries: Argentina – Armenia – Austria – Brazil – Columbia – Denmark – Egypt – Estonia – Finland – France – Georgia – Guatemala – Hungary – India – Indonesia – Israel – Korea – Malaysia – Mexico – Myanmar (Burma) – Norway – Peru – Poland – Russia – Singapore – Slovenia – Spain – Switzerland – Taiwan – Thailand – The Philippines – Vietnam.