I want to give you a few free hours this week! Now you are probably wondering how I am going to do that. Perhaps I watched the movie “In Time” too frequently and I actually think I can add time to your countdown clock. Oh wait! That was a science fiction movie. I guess I […]
Inner Work
Storytelling in the Waldorf Classroom
The other night I was watching Dr. Who on TV with a friend who is a Dr. Who enthusiast. However, it was not the program that captured my attention, but the commercials. The first commercial showed a man who was jealous of a colleague’s new computer that the company gave the colleague after accidentally spilling coffee […]
Waldorf Teacher Parent Inner Work: Doing “Nothing” as an Accomplishment
Doing nothing may be your biggest accomplishment this year. My New Year’s Resolution this year is not to make any active New Year’s Resolutions and instead to focus more on the value of rest and relaxation. In today’s society there is so much daily pressure to do more that it seems appropriate to focus on […]
Waldorf Teacher Education: How to Encourage Students
Waldorf Teacher Tip #345: Keeping Your Energy Levels Up
Waldorf Teacher Tip #345: This weekend I attended an outdoor seminar in wildlife field research. This seminar was part of my own research for the new Wildlife Curriculum I am developing and also part of my training for my own field research. Once again, however, I realized that my education had another important purpose – […]
Hands On Education: Working with Your Hands in the Classroom
As parents and teachers using Waldorf-inspired methods we learn about the importance of making sure there is a balance between the head, heart and hands* in daily education. Steiner teaches that this balance is essential to learning and that when a child is engaged and balanced on all three levels that their learning happens more […]
Breaking Down “Shoulds” and Stereotypes in Homeschooling
Inner Work & Meditative Time for Children
There is a lot of talk in the Waldorf community about inner work for the teacher and parent but we often forget that children also need this time. A teacher/parent is encouraged to wake up early and start the day with some inner work and time to meditate or be alone so they can center […]
The Temperaments in Education
Temperaments in Education By Kristie Karima Burns, MH, ND, Ph.D. Copyright 1998 Even Samuel Hahnneman, the father of homeopathy recognized the importance of type and related that it was important to know a persons type to discover the different ways they would exhibit the same disease and the different ways they would react to similar […]
Earthschooling – an Award Winning Curriculum
