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CHERRY ANN TOLENTINO
Class 4 Bahaghari
Che Ann first encountered Waldorf Steiner education when she attended the Intensive Early Childhood Education course of Rudolf Steiner Education in the Philippines (RStEP) with Bella Tan in 2007. She was attracted to Waldorf Steiner education as a parent because of its holistic view of the human being embedded in its pedagogy. Soon, she was invited to teach in AWS, She was a Kindergarten Assistant for a year before she became Class 1 Main Teacher for Kawayan Class. She completed a full teaching cycle of being a Main Teacher of Kawayan class from Class 1 up to Class 8. She is now on her second teaching cycle and as Main Teacher of Bahaghari class.
Che Ann is a mother of four – two boys and twin girls. Apart from being a mother and an educator, Che Ann supports her husband in a small business. To balance her home and work life, she tends to her garden, paints in watercolor, and does household chores, all of which are therapeutic activities for her.
She is a graduate of Bachelor of Science in Agribusiness Management from University of the Philippines, and a second course, Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education, Major in Mathematics.
For the past twelve years in AWS, Che Ann has attended numerous Waldorf Steiner trainings, conferences and class observations in the country and abroad, including the Waldorf Teacher Training at Gamot Cogon Insititute (GCI), the World Teachers Conference (WTC) in Dornach, Switzerland in 2016 and all the Asian Teachers Trainings (ATT) at AWS.