Towards Creative Teaching: Notes to an Evolving Curriculum for Steiner Waldorf Class Teachers

by Martyn Rawson (Editor), Kevin Avison (Editor), Johanna Collis (Translator)

Overview

This wonderful resource book for Steiner-Waldorf class teachers offers ideas for planning, shaping and developing lessons for Classes 1 to 8.

Taking the Waldorf curriculum as its basis, and without being restrictive or prescriptive, this book comes out of a teachers' working group and provides helpful suggestions to both class teachers and subject specialists, adding to the richness and imagination of each teacher's own work.

The book is a truly comprehensive overview of all main-lesson and accompanying subjects, offering a wealth of guidance, knowledge and inspiration for Waldorf class teachers.

This revised third edition is published in association with the Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780863159619
Publisher:	Floris Books
Publication date:	04/15/2013
Edition description:	3rd Revised ed.
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x (d)

About the Author

Martyn Rawson has taught in Waldorf Schools in the UK. He currently lives in Germany and works for the International Waldorf Schools Federation. Kevin Avison has been a teacher in both state and Steiner schools. He is an executive officer to the Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship. He has two grown up children who were educated in Waldorf schools. He lives in Stourbridge, England.

Table of Contents

Foreword 9

1 Introduction 11

What is a curriculum for Waldorf Schools? 12

The child's second seven-year period 16

How do we see ourselves and our role as class teachers? 21

2 Classes 1 to 3: Seven- to Nine-Year-Olds 40

Main-lesson content 43

The accompanying subject lessons 70

3 Classes 4 and 5: The Child in the Middle of the Class Teacher Period 82

Main-lesson content 87

The accompanying subject lessons 123

4 Classes 6 to 8: The Developing Human Being 131

Main-lesson content 137

The accompanying subject lessons 207

5 The Waldorf Curriculum - An Ongoing Research Project 222

Colleagueship 222

Integrated learning 224

Interconnecting aspects of the Waldorf curriculum 231

Developmental stages of childhood 233

Appropriate practice at different stages 235

Current relevance 237

Notes 241

Index 255

Editorial Reviews

'[This book] should be in every kindergarten and home-educator's library!'
–Kindling Magazine

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