Understanding Waldorf Education

Author: Jack Petrash
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458767531
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
Written by a teacher with more than 25 years of experience, this book offers a jargon-free view of Waldorf education and its philosophy of the importance of a three-dimensional education. Through learning experiences that involve all of the senses, children use a variety of intelligences to develop thought, feeling, and intentional, purposeful activity. Whether you're Waldorf parent or teacher, or you just want to learn more about these innovative educational concepts, this book contains important ideas on learning that you can apply today.

The Roadmap to Literacy Renewal of Literacy Edition

Author: Jennifer Irene Militzer-Kopperl
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734563023
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Roadmap to Literacy Renewal of Literacy Edition is a reading, writing, and language arts program for Waldorf schools grades 1-3.

The Waldorf Kindergarten Snack Book

Author: Lisa Hildreth
Publisher: SteinerBooks
ISBN: 1621511553
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 99

Book Description
"We recognize that we have moved into a new globalism: that the world is one, economically and geopolitically; and that futurists extol the possibilities opened up by the new complex of silicon-based electronic interactive networks. Yet, at the same time, our thinking about who we are and what we are capable of as human beings remains pitifully inadequate and largely determined by nineteenth-century models. Thus, all talk of 'family values,' of 'virtues,' of new forms of collaboration and cooperation tends either to miss the point for to reinforce the most regressive aspects of our technology." ("Spirituality and Social Renewal series introduction) How can we foster the development of initiatives? How can enterprises such as community projects, schools, farms, and businesses be established in the best possible ways? How can we work as equals, sharing responsibilities and encouraging one another in our development while offering the highest-quality product or service? Vision in Action is a workbook for all who are involved in social creation--collaborative actions that can influence the social environment within which we live and where our ideas and actions can make a difference. This volume is a user-friendly, hands-on guide for developing healthy small organizations--ones with soul and spirit.

What is a Waldorf Kindergarten?

Author: Sharifa Oppenheimer
Publisher: Lindisfarne Books
ISBN: 9781584209997
Category : Kindergarten
Languages : en
Pages : 120

Book Description
Research shows that three essentials are necessary for young children's learning: a broad palette of sensory experience; vigorous and fine movement in response to sensory input; and the opportunity to imitate what the child sees modelled in the environment. These activities are the backbone of the academic foundation that parents should look for in an early childhood program.This helpful book takes an in-depth look at Waldorf kindergartens, and what approach they offer. It includes chapters on a typical day in a kindergarten, handwork, human development through art, circle time, fairy tales, seasons and festivals, and much more. This collection of insightful articles by experienced early-childhood educators, published in cooperation with WECAN, brings both an overview and a deeper understanding of these essentials at work in the daily life of the Waldorf kindergarten.

Waldorf Games Handbook for the Early Years

Author: Valerie Baadh Garrett
Publisher: Waldorf Education
ISBN: 9781912480265
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 144

Book Description
Waldorf Games Handbook for the Early Years - Games to Play & Sing with Children aged 3 to 7 A offers a handy guide to playing games with young children. This classic games book offers a standby resource for parents, teachers, forest school educators and play leaders. The games are tried and tested. They draw on worldwide Steiner - Waldorf creative education, where a child's work is their play. Child growth is explored and how this is helped by a rich treasury of action, finger, circle, clapping, beanbag, chasing, water, tumbling, story and singing games. There are both traditional favourites and also new games created to engage with digitally challenging behaviour.

School as a Journey

Author: Torin M. Finser
Publisher: SteinerBooks
ISBN: 0880109718
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260

Book Description
This is a lively, colorful, and absorbing account of a class teacher's journey with his class, from first grade through the eighth grade in a Waldorf school. Straightforward and humorous, School as a Journey provides an excellent introduction to the daily activities of a Waldorf school classroom. Torin Finser --who is now Director of Waldorf Teacher Training at Antioch New England Graduate School --wrote this book especially for parents, prospective parents, and educators who are new to Waldorf education. Filled with pedagogical gems, tips, and resources, School as a Journey will also prove an invaluable resource for those who are currently Waldorf class teachers. For those who wish to delve more deeply into this revolutionary form of education, the author has also included extensive documentation, with references to the works of Rudolf Steiner and of others experienced in Waldorf education. Highly recommended for anyone interested in this revolutionary form of education.

Deeper Insights in Education

Author: Rudolf Steiner
Publisher: Steiner Books
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 80

Book Description
Speaking to the teachers at the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart, Steiner addresses three issues: a living synthesis of gymnast, rhetorician, and professor as a necessity for successful teaching.

Old Freedom Train

Author: Shayne Jackman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781907359408
Category : Alphabet books
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This A4 sized hardback picture book has striking verses and images for each letter of the alphabet.

The Montessori Method

Author: Maria Montessori
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 446

Book Description
Certain aspects of the system are in themselves striking and significant: it adapts to the education of normal children methods and apparatus originally used for deficients; it is based on a radical conception of liberty for the pupil; it entails a highly formal training of separate sensory, motor, and mental capacities; and it leads to rapid, easy, and substantial mastery of the elements of reading, writing, and arithmetic. - Introduction.

First Grade Readiness

Author: Nancy Blanning
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981615967
Category : Education, Primary
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description
The move from kindergarten to school is a significant one. This book, a companion to 'You're Not the Boss of Me: Understanding the Six/Seven-Year-Old Transformation', is a collection of essential research and resources to help educators prepare children for starting school.Experienced teachers, doctors and therapists give guidance in the nature and needs of the child between six and seven, how to observe children for signs of readiness, and creating and carrying a healthy transition from kindergarten to grade school. It includes four different sample observation forms, to help schools to develop their own readiness observation procedures.