WHAT ABOUT THE CURRICULUM? Students like to be tested, inherent in this is a challenge – one even tests oneself constantly through life. If the test is against one’s previous performance, then it is a useful and valid procedure. However the more competitive against (not the word) other people the test is, the less justified. […]
BUILD: Curriculum Outlines
A Steiner High School: The Structure of a Steiner High School
HOW SHOULD STEINER HIGH SCHOOLS BE STRUCTURED? The ideal secondary school should be single-stream, Class 8 to 12, with a maximum of thirty students per class, a total of say 125. On this ‘village’ scale, the integrity of the individual can be protected in both the social and academic areas. There should be no arbitrary […]
A Steiner High School: The First Steiner High Schools
WHAT ABOUT THE FIRST STEINER HIGH SCHOOLS? Even Rudolf Steiner was an adolescent once. In a world dominated by material values, as it is in the West, a high school educational system has developed in which the overwhelming emphasis is directed to the preparation of youth for the workforce. Education has become the handmaiden of […]
Spiritual Science: Programming
PROGRAMMING INFORMATION As an educational reformer, Rudolf Steiner was an ‘integrationist’, an advocate of the interweaving and complementing of school subjects. He taught that, through creativity, teachers could bring a harmonizing and mutual benefit to subjects as (apparently) disparate as maths and music or physics and painting. This is achieved by a process of synthesis […]
Journey to Numeria: Math Lessons in First and Second Grade: Prologue
Journey to Numeria: Math Lessons in First and Second Grade: Prologue This second teacher/parent manual in the Spiritual Syllabus Series outlines 12 Mathematics unit lessons in Class 1 and 2 (7 and 8-year-olds). The math stream is essentially taught in the morning main lessons, for the first two hours of the day. There are three, […]