Meredith on January 4th, 2010

The following review is written by Teri Olson, a homeschooling mama who was kind enough to share her experience and expertise here. Teri has used almost all of the available Waldorf homeschooling curricula, including using the Christopherus first grade curriculum twice. She found the resource invaluable — I hope you find her comments just as [...]

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Meredith on December 26th, 2009

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 [...]

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Meredith on December 20th, 2009

Live Education! — I have not had any experience using the Live Education! materials, but I have met one of the creators of the curriculum and by all counts he has created a curriculum that is quite in keeping with Steiner’s indications. Live Education! is billed as the most pure Waldorf homeschooling curriculum. From their site, “Live [...]

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Meredith on December 20th, 2009

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 [...]

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Meredith on December 14th, 2009

When I first began teaching at a Waldorf school I quickly found that there were resources for teaching that everyone used. Usually the not-to-be-missed resource titles were passed down from teacher to teacher, as each one of us shared with the teacher of the class behind us what worked, what didn’t, and what resources we couldn’t have lived [...]

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