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…
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….
In Discussion Nine of his Teacher’s Seminar, Rudolf Steiner and the first Waldorf teachers explore how to prepare lessons about plants. Steiner wants his teachers to realize a few key points (these are in his words): All…
Rudolf Steiner begins Lecture Nine of the Teacher’s Seminar in 1919 by saying that “the children coming to the Waldorf School will be of widely different ages.” After all, this is a new school and the children…
Rudolf Steiner poses this question to his first teachers-in-training in August of 1919: what is health-giving to children? This is our starting point as we begin to sort out how and what to teach in Waldorf homeschooling….
The question posed at the end of yesterday afternoon’s discussion is this: what measures need to be taken when children are struggling with a subject or lesson? You may find Steiner’s recommendations surprising: healthy food for improved…
Steiner doesn’t talk much about grade levels. Instead, he focuses on the child’s development at different stages. I think this is really great for us as we each design our own Waldorf curriculum for homeschoolers. This post…
Here we are with Lecture Eight from The Foundations of Human Experience, the morning lecture which Steiner gave to the first Waldorf teachers on the morning of August 29, 1919. Two topics emerge: how to work with remembering…
