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Our article and videos highlight a variety of tips and guidelines for implementing a Waldorf Curriculum whether for homeschool, charter, or private school including what is a main lesson and main lesson block, balancing form and freedom, the importance of story in Waldorf, and the four temperaments.

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Understanding the Waldorf Main Lesson: Story

This is the fifth part of a series of articles dedicated to exploring the Waldorf main lesson as a whole and its four primary component...

GENERAL PEDAGOGICAL

Rev Bowen

Jul 1, 20226 min read

Understanding the Waldorf Main Lesson: New-Do

Next In Main Lesson Series: Understanding the Waldorf Main Lesson: Story This is the fourth part of a series of articles dedicated to...

FIRST GRADE

Rev Bowen

Jun 22, 20224 min read

Understanding the Waldorf Main Lesson: Review

Next In Main Lesson Series: Understanding the Waldorf Main Lesson: New-Do This is the third part of a series of articles dedicated to...

GENERAL PEDAGOGICAL

Rev Bowen

Jun 15, 20229 min read

Waldorf Education - Understanding the Main Lesson:"Circle"

Next In Main Lesson Series: Understanding the Waldorf Main Lesson: Review In the last article, we did a survey of the four primary parts...

FIRST GRADE

Rev Bowen

May 27, 20225 min read

Understanding the Waldorf Main Lesson and its Component Parts

Next In Main Lesson Series: Waldorf Education - Understanding the Main Lesson:"Circle" In the last newsletter, we explored the seven-year...

GENERAL PEDAGOGICAL

Rev Bowen

Apr 15, 202210 min read

Waldorf Main Lesson: Understanding Hands, Heart, and Head

Next In Main Lesson Series: Understanding the Waldorf Main Lesson and its Component Parts One of the more distinctive aspects of...

GENERAL PEDAGOGICAL

Rev Bowen

Mar 18, 202210 min read

The Three-Day Rhythm for Main Lessons

In Waldorf Education, grades one through eight, teachers usually design the school day with a main lesson, followed by several subject...

GENERAL PEDAGOGICAL

Rev Bowen

Feb 12, 20227 min read

Why the Gesture is an Essential Element of Storytelling

Throughout nature, we find communication. Communication is the ability to impart or exchange information and this is done in myriad ways...

GENERAL PEDAGOGICAL

Rev Bowen

Jan 15, 20226 min read

The Waldorf Temperaments

During the Middle Ages, scholars and doctors referred to something called "the humors" to classify four tendencies they could see in...

GENERAL PEDAGOGICAL

Rev Bowen

Jan 10, 202211 min read

Weeding: The Waldorf Path To Dealing With Polarization

When Spring returns and the plants are growing with such tremendous forces, such urgency and vigor, I always find my thoughts...

GENERAL PEDAGOGICAL

Rev Bowen

Dec 10, 20217 min read

"Plan and Meander"

If you are new to Waldorf education and/or you want to learn more about the deeper principles at work within it, then the following...

GENERAL PEDAGOGICAL

Rev Bowen

Dec 10, 20219 min read

Explanation and Imagination

If you are new to Waldorf education and/or you want to learn more about the deeper principles at work within it, then the following...

GENERAL PEDAGOGICAL

Rev Bowen

Dec 10, 20216 min read

Habits Win

The most fundamental principle of Waldorf Education is that the educator (parent and/or teacher) is informed by an insightful...

GENERAL PEDAGOGICAL

Rev Bowen

Dec 9, 20218 min read