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The final presentation of a Waldorf student

Created by Jannah Smith | 12/18/2020 |   Teaching Practice

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…

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The Metamorphosis of Clover acid and Formic acid

Created by Klaus Frisch | 12/04/2020 |   Teaching Practice

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

 

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De-colonizing your curriculum - some tips for auditing

Created by Martyn Rawson | 10/12/2020 |   Teaching Practice

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…

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Distance learning from the perspective of Waldorf learning theory

Created by Martyn Rawson | 05/04/2020 |   Distance Learning

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…

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Phenomenological approaches in physics lessons

Created by Wilfried Sommer | 04/09/2020 |   Science

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

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Some guiding ideas on the current situation in schools

Created by Thomas Stöckli | 04/07/2020 |   Distance Learning

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

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We can manage in all circumstances: use modern technology and design simply daily home schedule

Created by Joep Eikenboom | 04/07/2020 |   Distance Learning

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

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School in Times of Corona. Some suggestions

Created by Christof Wiechert | 04/07/2020 |   Distance Learning

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

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Teaching profession a relationship profession. New qualities in relationships possible?

Created by Florian Osswald | 04/07/2020 |   Distance Learning

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…

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BLOG: School in times of Corona

Created by Pedagogical Section at the Goetheanum | 03/27/2020 |   Teaching Practice

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

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‚The Yellow Pepper‘, or what are ‚pedagogical stories‘ all about?

Created by Margarete Jäckel | 11/20/2019 |   Teaching Practice

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…

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Form drawing – a new linear art worldwide

Created by Thomas Wildgruber | 09/18/2019 |   Teaching Practice

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

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Digital change as a societal change

Created by Robin Schmidt | 07/15/2019 |   Teaching Practice

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

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Active media education in class using the example of stop-motion animated film technique

Created by Julia Kernbach | 05/29/2019 |   Teaching Practice

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…

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Movement in childhood

Created by Dr. Elisabeth Frank | 03/01/2019 |   Teaching Practice

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…

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Opening Mathematics

Created by Aziza Mayo, Detlef Hardorp, Daniel Jaeger | 02/25/2019 |   Teaching Practice

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

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The Significance of Puberty for the Process of Individuation

Created by Prof. Dr. M. Michael Zech | 02/14/2019 |   Foundations

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

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Promoting curiosity

Created by Markus Lindholm | 02/14/2019 |   Teaching Practice

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…

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International Curriculum: Choosing story material

Created by Martyn Rawson | 01/14/2019 |   Teaching Practice

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…

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Fundamental Aspects of Sports Lessons in the Waldorf School

Created by Gerlinde Idler | 12/20/2018 |   Teaching Practice

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…

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The Art and the Science of Classroom Management

Created by Trevor Mepham | 06/12/2018 |   Teaching Practice

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…

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Learning to Take Your Life Into Your Own Hands

Created by Waldorf Resources | 05/04/2018 |   School Management

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…

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Destroyed Soul Landscapes

Created by Bernd Ruf | 04/10/2018 |   Teaching Practice

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…

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Polyhedric educational experiences

Created by Karen Chapman | 03/13/2018 |   Teaching Practice

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…

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Googlification in the Classroom - The High-Tech Invasion of our Schools

Created by Katharina Stemann | 02/13/2018 |   Teaching Practice

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…

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1100 Schools and The Challenges of Teacher Education

Created by Waldorf Resources | 02/06/2018 |   Foundations

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

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Having 28 daughters. Waldorf Education in India

Created by Manorama Kamineni | 10/19/2017 |   Teaching Practice

An interview with Manorama Kamineni, Sloka Waldorf School Hyderabad

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Engaging (or not) with community

Created by Neil Boland | 08/08/2017 |   Self Development

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

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Waldorf: An education of its time?

Created by Neil Boland | 06/19/2017 |   Foundations

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

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Possibilities for the Development of New Waldorf Festivals

Created by Vera Hoffmann | 05/30/2017 |   Teaching Practice

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

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Between Glittery Façades and the Largest African Slum

Created by Vera Hoffmann | 05/22/2017 |   Teaching Practice

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…

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Between Coca and Noodles

Created by Vera Hoffmann | 05/08/2017 |   Teaching Practice

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…

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From the campfire to enzyme kinetics

Created by Dirk Rohde | 03/21/2017 |   Teaching Practice

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

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Developing Pedagogical Quality – but how?

Created by Thomas Stöckli | 02/23/2017 |   Self Development

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

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On the Back of the Turtle. Culture and Waldorf Education

Created by Katharina Stemann | 02/09/2017 |   Teaching Practice

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

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Waldorf education: a continuous cycle of renewal

Created by Martyn Rawson | 01/09/2017 |   Teaching Practice

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

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Creation of new Waldorf festivals based on local conditions

Created by Vera Hoffmann | 11/15/2016 |   Teaching Practice

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…

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English Week in China

Created by Christoph Jaffke | 11/15/2016 |   Teaching Practice

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…

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Celebrating Shakespeare’s Work

Created by Josie Alwyn | 10/25/2016 |   Teaching Practice

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

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Refugee Kids of Stuttgart

Created by Pauline Dörrich | 10/19/2016 |   Teaching Practice

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…

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Teaching in the Interplay between Power and Freedom (1)

Created by Stephan Sigler | 10/19/2016 |   Teaching Practice

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

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Assessment for Learning

Created by Martyn Rawson | 10/03/2016 |   Teaching Practice

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

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Resistance as the Origin of Pedagogical Initiative

Created by Claus-Peter Röh | 09/01/2016 |   Self Development

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

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Being Fully Human - Part III

Created by Douglas Gerwin | 08/15/2016 |   Foundations

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:…

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Being Fully Human - Part II

Created by Douglas Gerwin | 08/07/2016 |   Foundations

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…

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Being Fully Human - Part I

Created by Douglas Gerwin | 08/07/2016 |   Foundations

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

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Are You Living Your Talk?

Created by Ben Cherry/ Katharina Stemann | 05/11/2016 |   Teaching Practice

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…

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Growing Students – Growing Teachers: A Conversation with Harlan Gilbert

Created by Harlan Gilbert | 03/03/2016 |   Self Development

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

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Sweepers, Feathers and Rainbows

Created by Joep Eikenboom | 01/06/2016 |   Teaching Practice

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…

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'The History of the World is the Judgement of the World'

Created by Stefan Grosse | 12/10/2015 |   Teaching Practice

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

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Art and the Integration of Head, Heart and Hand

Created by Van James | 11/10/2015 |   Foundations

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

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The transition from childhood to adolescence begins in Class 6 ... I mean 4 ... or is it ...

Created by Amanda Bell | 10/06/2015 |   Teaching Practice

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

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What is true love? An interview with Katherine Estember

Created by Katherine Estember | 10/06/2015 |   Self Development

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

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Jacob's Flowers

Created by Katharina Stemann | 09/15/2015 |   Teaching Practice

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

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It is really about the child – Interview with Silviah Njagi

Created by Silviah Njagi | 07/15/2015 |   Teaching Practice

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…

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Adults' Self-Education

Created by Dr. Edwin Hübner | 06/24/2015 |   Teaching Practice

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…

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Media as a Provider of Education

Created by Franz Glaw | 06/24/2015 |   Teaching Practice

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…

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Indirect and Direct Media Pedagogy

Created by Dr. Edwin Hübner | 06/24/2015 |   Teaching Practice

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…

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Media and Waldorf Education

Created by Henning Kullak-Ublick | 06/24/2015 |   Teaching Practice

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…

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Time with the class teacher

Created by Henning Kullak-Ublick | 06/24/2015 |   Teaching Practice

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…

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Painting Problems

Created by Van James | 05/28/2015 |   Teaching Practice

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…

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What can parents do for their child's healthy brain development?

Created by Susan R. Johnson | 05/12/2015 |   Early Childhood

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

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Evaluating, Assessing, Testing and Learning

Created by Robert Thomas | 05/11/2015 |   Teaching Practice

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…

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The omnipresent companion

Created by Karin Smith | 03/31/2015 |   Teaching Practice

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

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Educational Horticulture: Arguments for and against and how you can do it anyway

Created by Peter Lange | 01/27/2015 |   Teaching Practice

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…

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Tending the Chrysalis - Interview with Paul Hougham

Created by Paul Hougham | 12/10/2014 |   Teaching Practice

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

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The Quadratic Equation – this is a topic to be taught in an inquiry based way after all

Created by Prof. Dr. Peter Gallin | 11/26/2014 |   Teaching Practice

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

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Implementing Dialogic Learning in Primary Schools

Created by Prof. Dr. Peter Gallin | 11/13/2014 |   Teaching Practice

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

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Teaching Horticulture in the Digital Age

Created by Holger Baumann | 09/30/2014 |   Teaching Practice

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.

We might find these…

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Ten Pylons: Foundations of a Waldorf Approach to Teaching Human Sexuality

Created by Douglas Gerwin | 07/29/2014 |   Foundations

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…

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Movement Education - The Origins of Bothmer Gymnastics

Created by Martin Baker | 07/28/2014 |   Teaching Practice

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

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Combined Classes in Langnau - Almost Family

Created by Karin Smith | 05/27/2014 |   Teaching Practice

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

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Pure Violet, Fire Mushroom, and a Test of Courage

Created by Thomas Loosli | 05/06/2014 |   Teaching Practice

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

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Film and Television: Parent – Teacher Collaboration

Created by Ludger Helming-Jacoby | 03/27/2014 |   Teaching Practice

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.…

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Entering a Dialogue

Created by Ulrike Sievers | 03/18/2014 |   Teaching Practice

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

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Something More Powerful Than Destiny

Created by Anna Slater | 03/13/2014 |   Teaching Practice

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

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Science and Ecology in the Upper School

Created by Ulrich Wunderlin | 02/20/2014 |   Teaching Practice

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

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Social-Emotional Education and Waldorf Education

Created by David Mitchell | 02/01/2014 |   Teaching Practice

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,…

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Creativity and Transformation in Language Learning and Teaching

Created by Peter Lutzker | 10/01/2013 |   Teaching Practice

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

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Creating a Sense of Wonder in Chemistry

Created by David Mitchell | 10/01/2007 |   Teaching Practice

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

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