So often, when we are new to Waldorf education, we think something like…”I need to learn to teach math with gnome stories. And I need to learn form drawing. And oh, there is painting and main lesson…
Really, no matter what resources or packaged curriculum we may choose to buy, we each create our own curriculum because we will never use a curriculum exactly as is. We aren’t even meant to, actually, because curriculum…
There is a phrase in twelve step programs called “the geographic cure.” It refers to one’s attempt to move somewhere new to cure whatever pain one is in. It doesn’t work! Because “wherever you go, there you…
Step two in the “6 Steps to Planning an Awesome Waldorf Homeschooling Year” is Rhythm & Resources in Waldorf homeschooling, the “R” in BRIDLE. Time to begin considering what resources to use for which blocks and what…
Summertime – a time when many of us as homeschoolers begin to get serious about planning curriculum for next year! There are two traps I want to help you avoid. One is only thinking about planning (maybe…
Lecture ten is a gem! In this lecture from Practical Advice to Teachers, Rudolf Steiner outlines the three stages of the Waldorf curriculum. He’s getting more concrete and specific here because it’s only five days until the…
Every year at the end of April, I start to feel anxious that we haven’t done enough in our homeschooling this year. I think back to what I’d planned last summer and fall. Somehow what we’ve done…
The three aspects of the human being – body, soul & spirit – have different forms, namely head, torso & limbs. Rudolf Steiner describes these three different aspects in lecture ten of the Teacher’s Seminar in 1919….
This is a guest post written by Barbara Dewey of Waldorf Without Walls about learning to read the Waldorf way. Barbara was one of the first to offer consulting to homeschooling families and to publish books for Waldorf…
I get this question a lot! People wonder what the atmosphere is like, what the workshops, accommodations and food are like! So I thought I’d answer a few questions here about the Taproot Teacher Training for homeschoolers….
