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Form drawing is an integral subject of the curriculum at a Waldorf School. This subject, unique to Waldorf pedagogy, offers a way to develop children’s spatial awareness, hand-eye coordination, and a deep understanding of shapes, patterns, and spatial relationships that goes beyond mere visual perception. Form drawing goes beyond mere drawing exercises, through this remarkable artistic and geometric practice, we lay the foundation for various academic and practical skills while nurturing our students’ wholesome and healthy development.
In Waldorf Education, connections are constantly being made between lessons. Spanning from connections in history that cross over to movement (when students learn to throw a Javelin while studying Greek History) or connections between theatre productions that directly mirror in classroom studies. The impact? “At a neural level, the strength of a memory depends largely on how many connections are made to other memories when learning.
Form drawing is unique to Waldorf education. It’s not art in the traditional sense, nor is it geometry (though it lays the foundation for both). At its core, form drawing helps children develop spatial awareness, balance, inner stillness, and the kind of focus that quietly builds the ground for later abstract thought.
Cyber Civics is a middle school curriculum, rooted in an understanding of child development, that prepares students to be ethical, confident, and empowered digital citizens. The lessons brought to the children this year have been lively, interactive, and full of good discussion and learning.
In kids, studies show that tracing out ABCs, as opposed to typing them, leads to better and longer-lasting recognition and understanding of letters. Handwriting also improves memory and recall of words, laying down the foundations of literacy and learning. In adults, taking notes by hand during a lecture, instead of typing, can lead to better conceptual understanding of material.
The Waldorf handwork and practical arts curriculum strives to address this problem. Today’s students need to be taught to activate their full capacities to apply their thinking and to see the results.