Teachers, please pay attention! Here is a message for you from a young girl reflecting on a complex educational issue after twelve years of Waldorf…

Suggestions for dealing with a curriculum statement by Rudolf Steiner on chemistry lessons in the 12th grade

The Black Lives Matter movement has given us much to think about, as have Covid-19, Fridays for Future, #Me Too, 9/11, the digital age and…

Given the current lockdown and the enforced need for distance learning at home, it is worth thinking about what the principles of learning are from a…

The teaching of physics in Waldorf education has a phenomenological approach. This raises specific methodological and epistemological questions. Here…

We are currently in an exceptional international situation in which schools worldwide are closed for the time being. Therefore we have to switch to…

We live in unexpectedly unreal times. This coronavirus crisis totally affects life in most countries in the world. As Waldorf teachers, we never…

Over the past few weeks, various schools have asked for help with overcoming the corona crisis without schooling. The advice given was useful.…

We find ourselves living in an extraordinary situation. In many parts of the world, work and private life have changed out of all recognition in the…

With many ideas and suggestions on the topics 'homeschooling' and 'teachers meetings'!

Children love having stories read to them. Today reading aloud has been taken a back footing. Often the media replace the human being. There is plenty…

Waldorf education resides today on all continents and in numerous cultures. During many visits to Waldorf “colonies” overseas, the question cannot be…

We live in a digital world that has become indispensable. Whether we encounter it with uncertainty or enthusiasm is of secondary importance. Robin…

This article makes the case for using digital media as tools in school in order to understand them as a means to an end. Digital media are used…

Movement is one of life’s age-old phenomena. We probably never associate life with movement more than when we see children in action. Stand on the…

Mathematics confronts teachers with a pivotal question: Do we explain mathematics, or do we encourage students to think for themselves and form their…

In this article, the author identifies key aspects of adolescent pedagogy in Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy and considers them in terms of their…

Curiosity is a wonder of the human mind. It goes to the heart of modernity, as a driving force for learning, novel insights and innovation, both for…

After almost 100 years of Waldorf pedagogy the question as how to adapt the curriculum to different places continues to be a challenge. Today we can…

Why do I practice certain movement sequences in class? How should they be practiced? What movement qualities do I train? What effect do they have on…

Classroom Management- is there really any more to it than knowing where the scissors are kept? Or, how a teacher might get a class of children to line…

The film introduces „School as a Whole“, a topic by the Waldorf School movement. In the film ‹Tea(cher) Talk› by waldorf-resources.org, Waldorf…

What began with a football World Cup in 2006 and Waldorf Youth Festival in Stuttgart ended for some in the Lebanon war. A group of students could not…

The main focus of this video is the recent development of the upper classes of the Scuola Novalis. The Libera Scuola Steiner-Waldorf “Novalis” is…

The posters on the classroom wall say, ‘Dream!’ ‘Laugh!’ It seems ironic that these posters remind us of a childhood which is long gone. Some third…

Currently, there are 1100 Steiner Waldorf Schools worldwide. One of the challenges to do with this development is the education or professional…

An interview with Manorama Kamineni, Sloka Waldorf School Hyderabad

Neil Boland suggests that we scrutinize time, place and community. Does everyone experience a sense of belonging within the school? Which communities…

To what degree is Waldorf education of its time? Is it contemporary? These questions are put forward by Neil Boland, senior lecturer at Auckland…

To conclude her research on the development of new festivals in Kusi Kawsay, Peru and Nairobi Waldorf School, the author Vera Hoffmann summarizes in…

In the third part of Vera Hoffmann's series on festivals at Waldorf schools she describes some examples from Kenya. Vera has investigated the latest…

This is the second part of an article about the creation of festivals at Waldorf schools. Here, the author refers to an example from Peru. In an…

In 2013 Dirk Rohde published a teacher's resource book called Chemistry Reader on how to establish chemistry teaching at Waldorf schools. The handbook…

Thomas Stöckli and his team at the Institute for Action Research in Switzerland have developed a method to develop the educational quality of…

The Waldorf movement is becoming more and more international. There are already more than a thousand schools and eighteen hundred kindergartens in…

For many people the Waldorf Curriculum (whatever they understand by this term) is integral to the definition of Waldorf education. They think a school…

As a multiculturally interested Waldorf class teacher, it was my wish to contribute with a master's thesis at the RSUC Oslo to the interculturalism of…

In no other country has the Waldorf movement developed as fast as in the People's Republic of China. In 2011 there was just one Waldorf school in…

London, this Spring, has received thousands of visitors from across the globe to celebrate Shakespeare’s work. As one festival organiser writes, "The…

Let's make this world a better place! Hi, my name is Pauline Dörrich. I am an 8th grade student at the Waldorfschule Uhlandshöhe in Stuttgart. When we…

Stephan Sigler, lecturer at the seminar in Kassel and high school teacher, uses mathematics to illustrate how dynamic teaching techniques in the high…

Assessment is a vital part of supporting learning because they show how we understand students’ learning and how we give them feedback and advice.…

In the opening lecture of the World Teachers' Conference 2016 “Overcoming Resistance” Claus-Peter Röh names some of the typical issues a Waldorf…

This is the third and final part of the introduction to a new collection of essays on teaching human sexuality entitled Trailing Clouds of Glory:…

This is part two of the introduction to a new collection of essays on teaching human sexuality entitled Trailing Clouds of Glory: Essays on Human…

The following article is taken from the introduction to a new collection of essays on teaching human sexuality entitled Trailing Clouds of Glory:…

Waldorf teachers in China need to balance a „copy-paste“ approach to foreign cultural elements with the search for their own path in order to create…

Even though Harlan is busy teaching various subjects, he finds time to host the online Waldorf Mathematics and Science Teachers Forum. In this…

Joep Eikenboom is a class teacher and teacher for educational support in the Netherlands. In this paper, he explains how important it is for teachers…

The international Waldorf movement, with its Middle European roots and traditions, has spread to every culture and religion in the world. What is an…

Art is, according to James, the decisive factor in the learning process, because art is the mediator between perception and physical activity. The…

The author describes the soul life of twelve-year-olds at the transition from childhood into adolescence. She considers the teachers' tasks in grade…

Katherine Estember, the initiator of Tuburan Institute, quit her job because of her desire to mainstream a better, more nurturing way of teaching and…

So-called Child Study or Child Observation is a central aspect of Steiner Waldorf schools, curative schools and institutions worldwide. Why is it so…

Silviah Njagi is a kindergarten teacher at the Nairobi Waldorf School in Kenya. She has been working with 4 to 6 year olds for the past 15 years and…

In 2012, around 58 billion text messages were sent in Germany alone (i); globally there were about 7 trillion messages sent and the figure is expected…

Whenever the consequences of media use are discussed, the discussion usually centres on the effect on the consumer. People focus a lot less on the…

Technology frees people from certain tasks, but there is always a danger that the corresponding skill might be lost as well, just like a muscle which…

When my daughter was five, she explained to my wife how our fax machine works. She had never sent a fax, she had only sometimes watched her dad…

Children in the early years of formal schooling should work with materials which activate all the senses, from smell to colour to touch. This is…

Have you ever heard the complaint, "Why do all the children's paintings look the same?" If you've asked yourself this question after having viewed the…

Susan R. Johnson, the well-know US American pediatrician, has compiled a list of tips for parents, regarding television viewing. Her suggestions could…

For as long as there have been schools – in the sense we understand them today – one of the teacher’s main tasks has been to observe, evaluate, assess…

Why are we so infatuated with our little gadgets? Smartphones and similar devices have become an indispensable part of our lives, of ourselves.…

Everyone is connected to the cultivation of edible plants, be it as producer or as consumer. We cannot live without plants. Peter Lange shows the…

Paul Hougham, teaches citizenship, politics and history and is also the class eight teacher at Steiner Academy Hereford in England. This is a rural,…

Some teachers of mathematics claim that the formula for the quadratic equation is incompatible with modern teaching methods and therefore has to be…

Through conventional teaching, children often loose their natural interest in mathematics. Prof. Dr. Peter Gallin shows in his research article how…

A female stag is a Bambi. The sun rises in the north. A chicken lays an average of three eggs a day. UHT cows give UHT milk.

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This article comes from a new collection of essays entitled Trailing Clouds of Glory: Essays on Human Sexuality and the Education of Youth in Waldorf…

Sport, movement, exercise and active leisure pursuits are central to our culture and enormous amounts of time, money and creative endeavour are poured…

From crisis to success: Due to low numbers of pupils, the Rudolf Steiner School in Langnau, Switzerland began teaching combined classes in 2009. This…

The teaching of chemistry at Steiner Waldorf Schools is something unique. Swiss Chemistry teacher, Thomas Loosli, introduces this special approach…

The question of the consequences of film and television for child development is likely to appear more than once on the agenda of parents' evenings.…

In February 2014 an Upper School Colloquium took place in Dornach. About 30 participants from nine European countries met to discuss the topic…

Anna Slater, High School teacher in the Philippines, answers our editor's questions. She describes life in a tropical school, her personal challenges…

Every year, a team around Ulrich Wunderlin from Zurich Atelierschule takes class 11 to the French Atlantic Coast on a practicum in interdisciplinary…

Schools today are asked to strengthen the young people's self so that they are able to emerge from adolescence as self-directed, emotionally stable,…

In his lecture at the First World Conference for Language Teachers, Peter Lutzker describes the differences between teaching to standardized curricula…

Wonder is an experience which blossoms in the soul when one is suddenly surprised and amazed by the attentive consideration of something rare,…