This illustrated record of a Waldorf class, growing and learning together for seven years, shows how to teach engaging lessons, develop a topic and set creative tasks.
Reducing preparation time, doubt, anxiety and stress, its examples want to inspire teachers to adapt its England-based content to their own cultural setting.
It is not prescriptive and shows one possible way among many, so use A WALDORF DIARY as you would use one of many cookery books.
As a beginner you will be reassured by its step-by-step guidance as you gain experience and confidence. As an experienced cook you will be glad of a time-saving resource and know how to adapt its recipes to your needs. And as a seasoned chef you may be looking for new ways of presenting your repertoire.
The individually published chapters of A WALDORF DIARY are designed as helpful resources for educators in any setting. As benchmark for approved standards, they let you make better use of limited preparation time.
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These Main Lesson topics are connected to the month in which they were taught, but their editable daily lesson plans can be adapted to any season and any cultural setting. And though these blocks build on each other, they could be used in a different order.
This illustrated Main Lesson guide demonstrates step by step how a topic is developed in the classroom, from day to day and across seven years. Homeschoolers and mainstream educators can easily adapt it to their settings and requirements.
To anyone wanting to learn about the artistic nature of the Waldorf curriculum, it demonstrates how a late start in academic learning can lead to impressive levels of skill by the middle school years.
The Chapters
A WALDORF DIARY is structured in seven grade sections, each year containing on average nine Main Lesson chapters of varying length.
These block guides are a sequence of lesson plans that follow the same format with a list of step-by-step instructions, observations, explanatory comments, recommendations and classroom conversations.
The information is illustrated with a wide variety of examples: blackboard drawings, stories, presentation notes, worksheets, templates, recommended materials, letters to the parents, examples of bookwork, projects, artwork and seasonal crafts.
Each Main Lesson guide comes with a free supplement of songs, poems, verses and exercises for the start of the day. It also includes mentoring comments and music scores, attributing sources where known.
To find out if this comprehensive guide is the resource for your needs, download the free first block guide here:
A WALDORF DIARY’s block guides …
- model an example of what Waldorf teaching is and what it can achieve
- give authentic insights into a Waldorf classroom
- illustrate how learning through an artistic approach works
- help non-artistic educators to present topics in an artistic way
- show how the artistic practices of early years evolve in the Middle School
- assist new teachers and home educators with examples of best practice
- chart a continuous stream of purposeful lesson content through seven years
- model an age-appropriate approach, inspired by Rudolf Steiner’s indications
- provide a detailed plan of each Main Lesson’s core content with suitable materials
- free up valuable hours for adapting this content to the requirements of your group
- show how a Main Lesson can be begun, developed and rounded off in limited time
- provide the solid general foundation on which to build an individual approach
- present tried-and-tested traditional content alongside successful new ideas
- feature stories and well-researched topic summaries as handy presentation notes
- demonstrate how the children’s soul forces are trained incrementally, day by day
- show how their horizon is widened in an unpressured, unhurried and enjoyable way
In summary, this unique guide assists class teachers, homeschoolers and mainstream educators with editable daily lesson plans, presentation notes, mentoring comments and examples of work.
To find out which chapter is currently in preparation, take a look at the publication schedule here:
Hello Fabienne, I am really happy with your ‘Waldorf Diary’ for Class 4! I was wondering: you mention children writing and drawing in their Diary when they arrive. What do you mean by Diary in this context? Thanks in advance for your answer!
Dear Lucine, how delightful to learn that you are enjoying my work! I gave my group a blank book at the start of Class 3, explained the concept of a diary and let them write short entries that were then illustrated. This informal diary work was done off and on throughout the years: at the start of the morning in certain Main Lessons, when covering subject lessons, or as extra work for those who finished a task ahead of time. Everyone did diary work at their own speed and level of skill, and the outcome was never marked, assessed or discussed. But it gave me valuable insights into the current state of a child´s mind – for example at the death of a beloved pet, which alerted me to the need for special consideration that week, promptly relayed to our subject teachers. The children liked to look back on their previous entries from year to year, sharing memories while noticing and commenting on their visible progress in handwriting, spelling and syntax. And the parents found it a precious record of their child´s inner life across their time in the Lower School.
I am looking to see if there are other grade levels that will be coming out for the diary publications as well as pricing for these materials
Hi Brianne, thank you for your interest. My guide comprises the 70 topics I taught in seven years – no more and no less. You will find prices and other details at the SHOP page. To be notified when the next chapter is published, please hop on my email list under SUBSCRIBE.