The Teaching of Mathematics
Category: | Date: 5 July 2016
By Hans Gebert Why do we teach mathematics? This question was recently posed in the columns of the Mathematical Gazette, which is the organ of the mathematics teachers in Great Britain. It is indeed a question that must be uppermost in the minds of all teachers, for what we teach and how we teach it can only be decided in the light of the reply to this question. In the article...
READ MOREMath and Science in the Kindergarten Waldorf Early Childhood Settings
Category: | Date: 5 July 2016
Author: Lisa Gromicko Date published: Unknown Contact details: Contact us tab available on Lifeways website Source: http://www.lifewaysnorthamerica.org/about/newsletters-and-articles/math-and-science-kindergarten-waldorf-early-childhood-settings Steiner-based, early childhood settings abound with rich opportunities for the development of math and science concepts. This...
READ MORETeaching Medieval Romances
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Author: Jean Hamshaw Date published: Unknown Contact details: Contact tab available on Waldorf library site Source: http://www.waldorflibrary.org/articles/28-teaching-medieval-romances In an era when all curriculum is being examined for its “relevance,” Waldorf school teachers must often explain why they include Parsifal and other medieval literature in the third...
READ MOREParzival and the Journey of Adolescence
Category: | Date: 5 July 2016
By John Wulsin Parzival, Wolfram von Eschenbach’s medieval epic, offers a portrait of the journey of through adolescence. The heart of the eleventh grade curriculum in a Waldorf School, it is often experienced as the heart in fact of the whole Waldorf Curriculum. Developmental Context We know that in the first seven years the young child, mostly head, devotes most of its...
READ MORELiterature with the Upper School
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Author: Francis Edmunds Contact details: Contact tab available on Waldorf library site Source: http://www.waldorflibrary.org/articles/1139-literature-with-the-upper-school This article examines the need for epic literature in the life of the high school student. First of 2 parts. Orginally published in Child and Man, Vol.2, #1. The child of fourteen and fifteen has...
READ MOREThe Industrial Revolution
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Author: Jesse Darrell Date published: Unknown Contact details: Contact tab available on Waldorf library site Published in Child and Man, Volume 17, #1, 1983 (UK) Source: http://www.waldorflibrary.org/articles/780–the-industrial-revolution This article discusses the Industrial Revolution, a pivotal main lesson taught in the Eighth Grade. In the Eighth Class in Rudolf...
READ MOREGeography in Fourth Grade
Category: | Date: 5 July 2016
Date published: Friday, 01 December 1967 00:00 Author: Franklin G. Kane Contact details: Contact tab available on Waldorf library site Source: http://www.waldorflibrary.org/articles/36-geography-in-fourth-grade Published in Education as an Art Vol.26, # 1 – Winter 1967 One of the great challenges and joys of being a class teacher in a Waldorf School is the response and...
READ MOREOrganic Chemistry and the Ninth Grader
Category: | Date: 5 July 2016
By David Mitchell The 15-year-old Ninth Graders stand before us. When we observe them, what is it that we notice? Quite fast we may see that they are filled with emotional energy. They don’t seem to think, but rather they ‘do’ things and then watch the results. They are passionate, irascible, and apt to be carried away by their own impulses; and, yet they...
READ MORETeaching Biology in a Human Context
Category: | Date: 5 July 2016
by Graham Kennish (Reprinted from Steiner Education, Vol.22, No.1) ‘Your body is a space capsule, your head the command module’ so begins the introduction to a 3-D moving pop-up picture book on the human body now available in the U.K. ‘When you reach puberty your hormones switch on’ announces a heading in the London Science Museum permanent exhibition...
READ MOREWhy do Waldorf schools discourage technology use before high school?
Category: | Date: 5 July 2016
Researchers found that for every hour per day spent watching specially developed baby DVDs and videos such as ‘Baby Einstein’ and ‘Brainy Baby’, children under 16 months understood an average of six to eight fewer words compared to children who did not watch them. – Aric Sigman Conventional wisdom holds that access to technology stimulates thinking, making it possible...
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