A recent post on one of the Waldorf homeschooling email groups I subscribe to reminded me of this wonderful book on teaching chemistry using a Waldorf approach.
Waldorf teachers use a phenomenological approach in teaching the sciences. So rather than reading about a particular concept and then conducting an experiment to prove it true, Waldorf students [...]
Though there are a lot of great Waldorf math resources, I sometimes found that I needed a little more than what I found there. Waldorf resources are great for detailing how to go about explaining a concept holistically, but when you just need a whole slew of problems for practice, mainstream resources are the way [...]
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I guess music is on my mind these days. I’ve been going through my music resources a lot these days and having a lot of fun finding songs I had never discovered before.
This week I was asked to bring some activity to our school’s Parent Council meeting. I taught them one of the songs and dances [...]
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I know it isn’t bright and sunny everywhere, but in my neck of the woods spring arrived a bit early and it has me feeling like getting outside and moving! As a teacher, leading games was never my strong suit, but as my teaching years went on I appreciated more and more the value of [...]
Okay, we finally made it! Waldorf schools are probably the only place where people still tell stories to eighth graders. My students loved a good story and I could still captivate them with a gripping tale right up to graduation. The history curriculum in eighth grade is “Revolutions” and traditionally the French, American and Industrial Revolutions [...]
Continuing with my series of story resources for the mythology/history curriculum through the grades, here is my entry for grade seven.
The Waldorf history curriculum for seventh grade centers around the dynamic and enlightening time of the Renaissance. Here are the few resources that I used extensively when I taught this block.
Copernicus by Heinz Sponsel – Using this [...]
Dear readers, thank you so much for bearing with me through my spotty posting record. Lots has been happening here — visiting schools, watching for the next adventure that looms on the horizon.
I’ve promised (for weeks) to post resources for 7th and 8th grade history stories, but before I do that I wanted to share [...]
A Path of Discovery is a curriculum resource written by Australian Waldorf teacher Eric Fairman. I have found his work to be inspiring and full of great ideas. From Bob and Nancy’s Bookshop website,
Eric Fairman is a delightfully creative (and amazingly well-organized!) Waldorf grade school teacher in Australia who has done us all a great [...]
There are a handful of books that make great introductions to Waldorf education. A couple of these books have been my go-to gift choice for new parents, or friends who are exploring education options.
You Are Your Child’s First Teacher by Rahima Baldwin-Dancy
This Waldorf Education classic was my first Waldorf book. It has been the first [...]
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As a teacher in a Waldorf school, I actually have little experience with any of the complete Waldorf curriculum resources that are out there. In my training we were taught that ideally the teacher crafts the curriculum entirely from scratch, following Rudolf Steiner’s guidelines and his or her own intuition about the students’ needs. This [...]
