The Roadmap To Literacy A Guide To Teaching Language Arts In Waldorf Schools Grades 1 Through 3

Finally! --Clear guidance on how to teach reading, writing, and spelling. One of the most important tasks teachers and homeschool parents face in the early grades is teaching students the fundamental language skills that underlie all future learning. Fortunately, there is a guide to traversing this territory: The Roadmap to Literacy. This book presents the key phases students must master to become literate. The Roadmap to Literacy introduces these phases and provides: The essential concepts and skills that students need to learn in each phase, including an entire section on Phonics Rules Key pitfalls to avoid Ideas to introduce new concepts in an imaginative and lively way Fun and effective practice activities to help students solidify skills Comprehensive lesson planning Easy ways to assess the program's efficacy How to handle common remedial issues The Roadmap to Literacy provides educators and parents all of the information necessary to teach their students the skills of reading, writing, grammar, and spelling so that they will be able to meet the demands of the upper grades--and beyond.

The Roadmap to Literacy Renewal of Literacy Edition is a reading, writing, and language arts program for Waldorf schools grades 1-3.

These dazzling, radical lectures were given one month before the opening of the first Waldorf School--following two years of intense preoccupation with the social situation in Germany as World War I ended and society sought to rebuild itself. Well aware of the dangerous tendencies present in modern culture that undermine a true social life--such as psychic torpor and boredom, universal mechanization, and a growing cynicism--Steiner recognized that any solution must address not only economic and legal issues but also that of a free spiritual life. Steiner also saw the need to properly nurture in children the virtues of imitation, reverence, and love at the appropriate stages of development in order to create mature adults who are inwardly prepared to fulfill the demands of a truly healthy society--adults who are able to assume the responsibilities of freedom, equality, and brotherhood. Relating these themes to an understanding of the human as a threefold being of thought, feeling, and volition, and against the background of historical forces at work in human consciousness, Steiner lays the ground for a profound revolution in the ways we think about education. Also included here are three lectures on the social basis of education, a lecture to public school teachers, and a lecture to the workers of the Waldorf Astoria Cigarette Company, after which they asked him to form a school for their children. German sources: Die Erziehungsfrage als soziale Frage (GA 296); lectures 4, 5, and 6, the "Volkspädagogik" lectures in Geisteswissenschaftliche Behandlung sozialer und pädagogischer Fragen (GA 192); lectures 2 and 11, Neugestaltung des sozialen Organismus (GA 330-331).

How to Make Math Meaningful? That is one of the greatest challenges for math teachers, particularly in today's world! This Waldorf math curriculum guide provides a developmentally appropriate method for teaching math in grades one through five.

A resource book for Waldorf teachers which covers the Class 1 to 8 Steiner-Waldorf maths curriculum. Features include: " ... how arithmetic can be introduced effectively in the early years so you can start teaching with confidence ... Draws number work from everyday life to stimulate children's interest and enthusiasm ... Gives examples for you to devise your own exercises ... Indicates how mixed ability teaching can be improved ... Relates maths to other subjects and to children's development."

Understanding and Shaping Curriculum: What We Teach and Why introduces readers to curriculum as knowledge, curriculum as work, and curriculum as professional practice. Author Thomas W. Hewitt discusses curriculum from theoretical and practical perspectives to not only acquaint readers with the study of curriculum, but also help them to become effective curriculum practitioners.