Nursery World - Guide to EYE: part 10 - An alternative route to EYE

Steiner Waldorf now offers an Early Years Educator course at Level
4. Gabriella Jozwiak takes a look at what it involves, in the final part
of our series on the new qualifications.

The Steiner method, based on the premise that a child's moral, spiritual and creative aspects need as much attention as his or her intellect, is playing a growing part in the alternative childcare scene. As with Montessori, Steiner's new qualification paves the way for more alternatively qualified practitioners to enter wider early education while retaining the statutory Early Years Educator (EYE) bedrock.

Like Montessori's EYE, Steiner's two-year Level 4 Diploma in Steiner Waldorf Early Childhood Studies (EYE) is offered by awarding body CACHE and has been developed with educational charity Crossfields Institute. Both also offer the course to students aged from 18, at Level 4 (Montessori has also developed a Level 3). And both are developing follow-on Level 5 courses. But unlike Montessori, these are not Steiner's first accredited Level 4 and Level 5 qualifications, as they replace existing Edexcel Early Childhood Studies diplomas.

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