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Extractions: Lead article, published in Tumbleweeds, Summer 2001 The reading equation has only two addends - decoding and comprehension - but its sum is far greater than its parts. Reading, that marvelous synergy of thought and action that opens so many doors for both children and adults, is a predictable achievement for some - and an elusive beast for others. Experts say that about 35 percent of American children are poor readers. They also say that in a technological society, the demands for higher literacy are increasing, creating more grievous consequences for those who fall short.
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Extractions: Practical Arts Hallmarks of the H.S. Admissions Academic Program Humanities ... News By the time they reach high school, Waldorf students are confident and their fingers are nimble. They are familiar with knitting, crochet, cross-stitch, and hand and machine sewing. Their minds have been stretched to think three-dimensionally and to create patterns for stuffed animals. They have also been introduced to the sewing machine with its mystique of buttons and burst of speed. Through a broad range of handwork experience, the students have encountered creative impulses in one another. Is it any wonder that these same students are later able to design baskets, create rich woven fabrics, or bind books in the high school? Twelfth Grade handwork involves the selection of an individual project to be designed and completed over the course of the year. The student, with a sense of confidence and professionalism, now desires to delve into a particular craft to see where he or she might contribute something unique. Practical Arts Course Descriptions Basketry Pottery Weaving Bookcraft Clothing Design Jewelry Making Glass Making Faculty The following list of Practical Arts courses includes required art classes as well as electives and classes that are offered in alternating years. We draw upon the incredible resources offered by the Bay Area art community to provide artists to teach several courses, such as Jewelry Making and Glass Making.
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Extractions: Homeschooling and Its Many Faces I've been homeschooling since 1985. When I was in high school, my boyfriend (soon to be husband) and I talked about getting my teaching credentials and teaching our (future) children at home. Back then (1974), we had never heard of homeschooling, we just wanted better for our kids. But as things went, I didn't get my teaching credentials and that idea was forgotten. In 1984, my daughter and I were enrolled in a mommy and me type pre-kindergarten class. At four, she already knew everything they were teaching and was much more mature than the other children in the class. I felt detached and confused about what would happen next year in kindergarten if she was already so far ahead. That's when I heard about the homeschooling movement. I immediately took her out of school and we began homeschooling. The first homeschooling seminar I attended was a Raymond Moore seminar. I was excited to see so many homeschooling, but I didn't agree with everything I heard. After a few months I stumbled across a homeschooling group that was right up my alley with what I had established as my homeschooling "philosophy".
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Extractions: These are just a "few" of the best homeschool web sites that I have found!!! Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it. (NKJ) Homeschooling....ME? Preschool Science Arts and Crafts ... Bible Poetry Math English Languages Puzzles ... Cooking Museums Music Peoples Geography Health/P.E ... Zoos / aquariums Adventures In Odyssey My HomeSchool Resource Links Newsletters/Mags Unit studies Used Books Lesson Plans ... 4th and 5th grade Research Resource page This is Great!! Catholic Homeschooling Christians school International Jewish Orthodox Homeschooling Furious Shepard Homeschool ... Nifty Nibbles (an off-line children's magazine) Isa 54:13 And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children. Record Keeping Certificate Maker Recognition certificates to print out. Chore Charts Chore charts available to print and use for free. Daily Lesson Plans Print out this Daily Lesson Plan form to make your daily planning easier Field Trip Kits Ideas for field trip kits and a field trip checklist to print and use Homeschool Easy Record A full-featured homeschool planner for creating homeschool records and lesson plans on your computer. Order online, by mail, phone or fax.
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Extractions: Home Culture Conscious Choice, August 2000 "I like to use the analogy of a Waldorf School as a garden and the teacher as the gardener. Our job is not to turn a cabbage into a rose or a rose into a cabbage, but to weed and mulch so the cabbage is the healthiest and best you've ever seen and the rose is the most beautiful and the best you've ever seen," says Susan Stevenson, a teacher at Chicago Waldorf School. "One of the chief tasks of Waldorf education is to bring life to knowledge," said Waldorf education founder Rudolf Steiner, in "Deeper Insights into Education." He believed teaching could never be boring if it was related directly to life. Thus, Waldorf students learn the same main subjects as those of traditional schools language arts, math, science, geography, and history but they stray from traditional schools in how and when they are taught. The subjects are taught in a hands-on experiential style, without textbooks. Waldorf classrooms use the arts, storytelling, rhythmic work, and music so that students use all their senses to achieve a deeper and more meaningful learning experience. In addition, the Waldorf curriculum is based on children's developmental stages. Steiner believed students go through three major developmental stages. The first, early childhood, lasts until about seven, when children start to get their permanent teeth. During this stage, Steiner posits that children learn best through physical activity and play. The second stage is said to go from seven to fourteen, when children learn through feeling and imagination and the arts speak deeply to them. The final stage is the thinking stage, when students are expected to begin developing their intellectual abilities.
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Extractions: To teach is to work from a true philosophy of life (Richards, 1988, p.104). Teaching is then tied directly to an anthroposophic view of knowledge . This philosophy includes addressing the developing child in such a way as to unlock the true potential living in each child, the true Self (Schmitt- Stegmann, 1997). This concise concept of what it means to teach mandates that the methods prescribed by Steiner are part of a true philosophy. The following definitions were taken from the American Heritage Dictionary, 2 nd college edition. Method: n. a systematic mean or manner of procedure. Curriculum: n . the courses of study offered by an educational institution. A caveat to consider when reading this table from the words of Steiner himself: It is less important to us that the child remembers what he is told than that he should develop his soul faculties (Richards, 1980, p. 102). By what methods should we teach?
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Extractions: Education. It's one of the most important parts of childhood. And one of the most controversial. For years, we have been arguing over which are better: public schools, private schools, home schools, alternative schools But how does it really break down? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? Is there really a method of education that stands out as being clearly better than the rest? I have my opinion, as do probably most of you. I don't think it's a very difficult thing to analyze, but from what I've seen, the arguments often revolve around unimportant things like admissions and testing and vouchers and so on. The truly important things are what I will focus on. In the sections that follow, I'm going to share with you some of the conventional wisdom of the day, as well as some of the common misconceptions. Let's start with: Public Schools I went to a small public school in a rural area. My graduating class had about 125 students. At the time I was a student there, the grading system was tough. A 75 percent was the lowest you could achieve without failing. A 90 percent was still a "B." Some said this was a great idea it made the students strive for higher grades to pull out that "A" a 93 instead of a 90. On the other hand, it was balanced with an idea that was as stupid as the other was good: the highest grade one could get was a 98 percent. Why? Well, the best reasoning I could come up with was this: "No one is perfect." A 100 percent would imply perfection, and that just couldn't be.
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Extractions: Sunbridge College Those of you who know Eugene Schwartz or have read his plays and books will easily understand why we are so happy that he offered this article for posting at our site. Those of you who have not yet made Eugene's acquaintance are about to encounter a Waldorf master teacher anyone would wish for as their child's mentor. Eugene is that rare individual who combines a keen, ever-searching mind and a delightful, enriching artistic capacity with the social sensitivity and inner solidity needed to guide a classroom of children into a fruitful adulthood. Simply stated, Eugene walks his talk, and, in our experience, what he has to say is always worth listening to. You may contact Eugene at eschwartz1@juno.com Bob and Nancy Note: This document is available in Microsoft Word format (52K) and as a ZIP compressed file For over seventy years, the Waldorf school approach to the teaching of history has been based on two principles. Throughout our tumultuous and mutable century, the Waldorf history curriculum has remained true to its focus on the myths, legends and biographies that underlie the development of "Western culture." The second principle that underlies the Waldorf curriculum is its concern that history not be taught as a specialized subject, but rather as a topic thoroughly integrated with subjects as diverse as mathematics, handwork and singing. Recent anxiety about the lack of "cultural literacy" among American children has begun to point to the wisdom of the first principle, while increasing indications that the assimilation of factual information is meaningless unless the ability to synthesize that information is cultivated as well would suggest the value of the second principle, the integrated history curriculum.
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Extractions: Administrators ... Early Childhood This section provides access to information on teaching methods and educational theories. We have also included other educational practices that aren't broad enough to be considered methods, yet have merit in early childhood classrooms. General Resources Montessori Project Approach Reggio Emilia ... Waldorf GENERAL RESOURCES To enhance public awareness of the benefits to be derived from brain research, Congress designated the 1990s as the Decade of the Brain. Now, as that decade draws to a close, Education World takes a look at the results of some of the most recent brain research and explores the implications for you and your students. Making the Case for Music Education
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Extractions: Home Introduction Newsletter Letters ... Pre-School This page: John Holt Unschooling Automatic Learning Charlotte Mason ... Summary Everyone has the right to educate their own child: it is something that has been happening since the beginning of time and it makes sense that this is what people should turn to at a time when the education system fails. In principle, how you educate your child is a matter that concerns only you and your immediate family: you are the ones who know what is best for your children: interference from outside rarely makes things better and often makes things worse. It can, however, be helpful to know how other parents in a similar situation to yourself have answered questions such as 'Should we do regular lessons?', 'Should we follow the national curriculum?', 'Should I panic if my child will not look at a book?', 'Should I tell the Local Education Authority that I am home-educating?' etc. The answers vary from child to child.
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Extractions: Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 09:09:00 -0500 Hello all, I have snipped a few bits from a recent post by Michael Kopp and appended my questions and opinions. Hope I have not snipped him too much out of context of the original post. Thanks for any comments and answers in response to my comments. KOPP wrote: As I've pleaded elsewhere, this list is not about understanding Steiner or Anthroposophy, but about whether SWA has any place or right in public or publicly-funded schools, and what are the effects of an SWA education, for the benefit of those people who wish to take a more critical, skeptical look at SWA before investing time, money and their children's lives in it. Amy An writes: Thanks for the above, it goes a long way toward answering my questions about the purpose of this list. I am drawn to the conversation but on this list but have been a bit put off by the fierce and sometimes fearful sounding dislike of Waldorf education. It can sound so much like the extreme opposite of a fervent Waldorf supporter that a reasonable medium seems elusive.
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Extractions: 16 lectures by Rudolf Steiner This important course on education shows how the healthy development of the physical body forms the basis for the free development of children's soul and spirit. Too often in modern education, the enthusiasm for imparting information becomes a substitute for developing human faculties. This can lead to an overtaxing of memory and inner exhaustion of students instead of healthy development. In Waldorf education, the emphasis is on the efficient use of soul energy in developing real capacities in children. The aims of Waldorf education are to arrange the entire teaching in such a way that within the shortest time the maximum amount of content can be given to the pupils with the simplest means possible. This helps the children to retain an overall view of their subjects, not so much intellectually but very much with regard to their feeling life. It is obvious that such a method makes great demands upon the teacher. I feel convinced that if a teacher applies this method - which I should like to call a teaching based on "soul economy" - he or she will have to spend at least two or three hours of concentrated preparation in order to teach for about half an hour . . . this kind of private preparation is of fundamental importance.
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Extractions: Where do we start? Children are a wonder. Their curiosity and enthusiasm for the world around them, their openness and flexibility sets childhood apart from much of adult life. Unfortunately a lot of the traditional education system, where they spend so much of their formative time, has been created from an adult perspective. Times have changed somewhat and progress made, but the system is caught up in paperwork, politics and conflicting ideas. Parents often feel that the mainstream education system will not provide their child the nurturing, emotional or spiritual aspects of their education, but often don't know where else to look. Here we examine some of the possible choices that a conscious parent can make. The Montessori method
