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Extractions: Home Culture Conscious Choice, August 2000 "I like to use the analogy of a Waldorf School as a garden and the teacher as the gardener. Our job is not to turn a cabbage into a rose or a rose into a cabbage, but to weed and mulch so the cabbage is the healthiest and best you've ever seen and the rose is the most beautiful and the best you've ever seen," says Susan Stevenson, a teacher at Chicago Waldorf School. "One of the chief tasks of Waldorf education is to bring life to knowledge," said Waldorf education founder Rudolf Steiner, in "Deeper Insights into Education." He believed teaching could never be boring if it was related directly to life. Thus, Waldorf students learn the same main subjects as those of traditional schools language arts, math, science, geography, and history but they stray from traditional schools in how and when they are taught. The subjects are taught in a hands-on experiential style, without textbooks. Waldorf classrooms use the arts, storytelling, rhythmic work, and music so that students use all their senses to achieve a deeper and more meaningful learning experience. In addition, the Waldorf curriculum is based on children's developmental stages. Steiner believed students go through three major developmental stages. The first, early childhood, lasts until about seven, when children start to get their permanent teeth. During this stage, Steiner posits that children learn best through physical activity and play. The second stage is said to go from seven to fourteen, when children learn through feeling and imagination and the arts speak deeply to them. The final stage is the thinking stage, when students are expected to begin developing their intellectual abilities.
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Extractions: Home Introduction Newsletter Pre-School This page: Biography Defining Steiner Education Modern Steiner Schools Rudolf Steiner and Home Schooling There are now over 800 Rudolf Steiner (or Waldorf) schools around the world. They are well-established in most European countries, North America, Australia and New Zealand, and there have been successful pilot schemes testing in Africa, India and most other parts of the world. The long-term success of this educational movement sets it apart from almost every other attempt at educational reform in the twentieth century, and this is all the more remarkable when one understands just how radical Rudolf Steiner's techniques and beliefs actually were. Biography In order to understand the phenomenon of Steiner school education it is necessary to understand something about the life and times of Rudolf Steiner himself. He was born in 1861 in a small village in an area which is now part of Croatia but which, at the time, was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. His father was the village stationmaster, which set him apart from the other boys in the village, and he soon re-enforced this difference by showing an extraordinary appetite for learning. He worked his way through the Austrian educational system and by the time he was in his twenties had become an accomplished linguist, classical scholar, mathematician, scientist and historian. Goethe seems to have been his role model at that time and he worked as a researcher at the prestigious library in Goethe's home town of Weimar.
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Extractions: return to Articles section Natural Jewish Parenting Reproduced by permission: Spring 1999, Pages 34-39 A catalog that sold organic cotton children's clothes, books about nursing and natural birth, homeopathy kits, and ecologically-correct natural wooden toys was where I first came upon the concept of Waldorf education. The pretty angel mobile on page 69 was described as having been designed by "Anne, the Waldorf teacher" and being "beautifully attuned to the very young child." At the time, I browsed past the page, musing about how decorative nursery items seemed to be more for entertaining parents than babies. A few months later, after having read much about Anthroposophy, the spiritual movement that informs Waldorf education, the angel mobile didn't seem so innocuous. Anthroposophists believe that children's souls gradually "incarnate" into their bodies and that infants do indeed see angels and sense otherworldly presences until about the age of seven. Waldorf education, I'd discovered, was an offshoot of Anthroposophy and the fastest growing system of private schools in the world. Why were these schools so popular and what exactly were they teaching? I knew of a few Jewish parents who were considering sending their children to Waldorf schools in the U.S. What sorts of conflicts might they encounter within the Waldorf pedagogy? As a Jewish parent myself of a preschool child, I felt compelled to research for answers.
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Extractions: by Matt Waldorf education is far better suited to boys than other methods of education, and the masculine component is just as strong as the feminine. ALL lessons, according to Waldorf methodology and teacher training, MUST have a physical component. Waldorf considers the physical nature of the child to stand on an equal footing with the intellectual and spiritual, unlike traditional education which focuses exclusively on the head, at the expense of the hands and the heart. Though all systems claim to teach the whole child, Waldorf is the only one to make that a living, breathing reality every day, in every lesson. In early childhood the program focuses on physical imaginative play. The children in a Waldorf kindergarten spend a great deal of time in building and digging and gardening and outdoor play. When I think of the Waldorf kindergarten, one of the images that comes to mind is little boys in rain boots sloshing around in the mud and sand building roads and tunnels and getting joyfully filthy try finding that in any other kind of school!
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Extractions: This lecture is reprinted here by permission of the publisher and is contained in the volume The Spirit of the Waldorf School , Volume V of the series Foundations of Waldorf Education This volume is a collection of six lectures and one essay given when the Waldorf School first opened its doors. Together they constitute the mission statement for the Waldorf School movement. When Mr. Molt first set out to found a school for the children of his employees, clearly his intention was to serve humanity in these difficult times. He chose a means which we must employ above all others when working to heal our social conditions. It is written in all your souls that we must create something new out of the conditions that we experience - the conditions that have developed over the past three or four centuries in the so-called civilized world. It must also have been deeply written in your souls that what we need above all to achieve other conditions is a different way of preparing humanity for a place in the world, through upbringing and education. What we need is a way untainted by the traditions of the past three or four centuries that are now reaching their zenith. For the future, we expect a social structure much different from the one of the present. We have a right to expect that. We look lovingly at our children, at the next generation, and we, particularly those who are parents, often have misgivings in our hearts. How will our loved ones fit into a society that must be so different from that of the present? Will they be equal to the new social challenge coming to humanity? Will they be capable of contributing to the formation of society, so that those who come after us will have it other than we have had, will have, in a much different sense, a more humane existence than we have had?
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Extractions: Sunbridge College Those of you who know Eugene Schwartz or have read his plays and books will easily understand why we are so happy that he offered this article for posting at our site. Those of you who have not yet made Eugene's acquaintance are about to encounter a Waldorf master teacher anyone would wish for as their child's mentor. Eugene is that rare individual who combines a keen, ever-searching mind and a delightful, enriching artistic capacity with the social sensitivity and inner solidity needed to guide a classroom of children into a fruitful adulthood. Simply stated, Eugene walks his talk, and, in our experience, what he has to say is always worth listening to. You may contact Eugene at eschwartz1@juno.com Bob and Nancy Note: This document is available in Microsoft Word format (52K) and as a ZIP compressed file For over seventy years, the Waldorf school approach to the teaching of history has been based on two principles. Throughout our tumultuous and mutable century, the Waldorf history curriculum has remained true to its focus on the myths, legends and biographies that underlie the development of "Western culture." The second principle that underlies the Waldorf curriculum is its concern that history not be taught as a specialized subject, but rather as a topic thoroughly integrated with subjects as diverse as mathematics, handwork and singing. Recent anxiety about the lack of "cultural literacy" among American children has begun to point to the wisdom of the first principle, while increasing indications that the assimilation of factual information is meaningless unless the ability to synthesize that information is cultivated as well would suggest the value of the second principle, the integrated history curriculum.
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Extractions: Choose the next article: Cover Artist Moma De Louvre Letter to the Children of the World from Moma De Louvre A Journey Through the Grades Waldorf Style with Kate Gould Growing Up at the City of 10,000 Buddhas with Shari Epstein Spirit and Matter of the Heart: Dorothy Mandel Colors of My Heart: Giving Voice to Navaho Tradition with Sharon Burch A Bridge Over the Ocean by Susan Sher All photos provided I began teaching using Waldorf methods in 1984. Starting with first grade, I continued teaching the same group of children until they graduated from eighth grade. That year a teacher left so I picked up her class in third grade and remained with them until their graduation, six years later. Then in 1998 I took a first grade once again. This was my third class. By the end of that year I had been teaching at the Waldorf School of Mendocino County for fifteen years. The following year I made a difficult decision to accept a position at the newly formed River Oak Charter School, a Waldorf methods school, which opened in the fall of 1999 in Ukiah. River Oak is a public school using Waldorf methods. It was exciting to consider using Waldorf methods that had worked so well in the past in a public school setting. There was some concern that the Waldorf philosophy would be compromised by public school expectations and standards. My teaching style and curriculum content have not been greatly altered in the charter school, although there are necessarily accommodations to meet state requirements and standards.
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Extractions: Methods of Education / Authors HOME or BACK TO GETTING STARTED Charlotte Mason Method: Charlotte Mason (1842-1923) was an educator and developed this model. A Charlolette Mason Companion: Personal Reflections on the Gentle Art of Learning by Karen Andreola, is a useful resource, for this education method. Classical Education: This method emphasizes trivium, concrete, analytical, and abstract thinking. Subjects include Grammar, Logic, and Retoric. The Well Trained Mind by Jessie Wise and Susan Wise Bauer is a guide to classical Education at home. Classical Christian Education: Dorothy Sayers' essay, The Lost Tools of Learning , began the classical Christian education movement. It is the classical approach additionally characterized by exposure to the history, art, and culture of Western Civilization, including its languages (Latin and Greek), its philosophy and literature (the Great Books of Western Civilization and the Christian tradition), and the development of a Biblical worldview with Theology as the head of the Sciences. The Christian Homeschool by Gregg Harris may be a useful resource.
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Extractions: Waldorf Education sets itself very high ideals. This increases the likelihood that these ideals aren't met. Coping with this discrepancy is on the agenda of all Waldorf Schools. But lowering the ideals would not help to increase the quality of the education. Those Waldorf teachers who strive after the highest ideals but openly admit where they do not achieve them generally fare best. Each Waldorf School is an autonomous entity and is neither administered nor controlled by any centralized authority. The schools can thus develop their individual profile and can vary in what and how they teach. The Waldorf Schools generally network themselves in different kinds of national and international Waldorf School Associations. One of the biggest problems facing many Waldorf Schools is finding enough dedicated Waldorf teachers. To be able to exist in spite of the shortage of Waldorf teachers, many schools are forced to resort to hiring teachers who have little or no background in Waldorf Education, hoping that they will develop a fruitful relationship to it in time. Insofar as it goes back to its roots, Waldorf Education applies the insights of anthroposophy to education. Anthroposophy is a close-to-life approach to the human being and is based on inner development. Just as inner mathematical insights are amazingly applicable to the outer world which physics investigates, so the insights obtained through the inner schooling of anthroposophy turn out to be eminently practical, enabling Waldorf Education to take place and to continually renew itself.
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Extractions: This newsletter is produced and maintained by Aileen Kawagoe. Please contact Aileen with your comments and subscription requests. III. Hot Topic: Educating Your Child: Does Method Matter? Montessori vs Waldorf Last issue we examined the goals and methods of the Classical schooling tradition and Charlotte Mason's methods. This issue looks at the schooling philosophies of Maria Montessori and Rudolf Steiner and provides a listing of schools in Japan influenced by the two schools of thought. Then follows a roundup of all four methods, their similarities and differences and what this means for the homeschooler. The Waldorf Method Waldorf schools (from preschool to high school) are said to collectively form the fastest growing group of independent private schools in the world. About 130 now operate in the United States, and 700 worldwide. Waldorf schools were founded originally by maverick Austrian philosopher and scientist Rudolf Steiner in 1919. He was invited to give a speech to the workers of the Waldorf-Astoria cigarette factory in Stuttgart, Germany, afterwhich the owner of the factory asked him to start a school for the children of the factory-workers. Steiner agreed and the first Waldorf school was born. Key features of Waldorf schooling Methods: 2) That imagination is the heart of learning permeates all of Waldorfteaching and learning. Key elements of the Waldorf teaching method include storytelling, fantasy-make-believe, art, drama, craft, discussion, the creation of a personal workbook. Practically this translates into a school day where the "main lesson" always unfolds with fairy tales, myths and legends, stories or drama. More academic math classes (that stimulate the head faculty) are likely to be balanced and followed on by music or foreign language classes (that stimulate the "heart" faculty of the child). The study of history may go beyond reading and writing about an era and involve performing a play based on the era. The old-fashioned face-less country-doll is a standard toy in Waldorf kindergartens since the teachers believe an incomplete toy allows children to use their imagination.
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Extractions: Issue 001 Appendix of Resources page 1 This newsletter is produced and maintained by Aileen Kawagoe. Please contact Aileen with your comments and subscription requests. All Things Japanese Curricula Reviews Geography Homeschooling Approaches ... Booklists 1. All things Japanese: Websites with schooling info: www.homeschoolinginjapan.org Kat Combs' website: Homeschooling in Japan - a brand new network of homeschooling and afterschooling families in Japan. For those of you who homeschool full time or supplement your children's education after school hours, this organization serves to support your need to network with other like-minded families and share resources, commiserate, etc. Organized outings around Tokyo once a month. http://www.jwindow.net/OLD/LWT/GENERAL/lwt_life_education.html NEW! A concise overview of the Japanese educational system Click on either "international schools" for listings or "the Japanese System" (a chart is provided) and "Foreign Children and the Education System" for good info http://www.mixpizza.omron.co.jp/mp/svc/bnf.menu?pbnf=ChildEducation
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Extractions: Lesson on Telling Time for the First Grade To demonstrate how to organize a lesson based on the suggested sequence of instructional strategies, I will use an example developed for a first grade public school lesson on telling time. This example conflicts with the Waldorf curriculum. The concept of time would not be formally introduced in a Waldorf school until the third grade. But, concepts are often introduced in public schools before they would be in a Waldorf school, so Waldorf methods may be applied to present these concepts to students in a more imaginative and less stressful way. Images: To begin, brainstorm a lesson image with which to teach the concept. Images from nature and fairy tales are best at this age. The Greedy Grasshopper and the Grouchy Lazy Ladybug were chosen for the concept of time, so the grasshopper could characterize the minute hand and the ladybug could characterize the hour hand. Rhythmically Motivated Movement: The next step is to render a central concept or process of the lesson as rhythmical movement. This movement activity begins to provide a kinesthetic foundation for imaging the process. Present this activity a week are more before starting the lesson, and repeat it daily. The movement used for this lesson involved a quick tiptoeing and finger crossing movements while counting by 3's to 12 (12 Then rubbing the belly and saying "Yum! Yum!" This movement activity provides a kinesthetic foundation for the capacity of students to organize the traditional face of a clock.
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