Finding the Right Images

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"Children want an image, and want to think of themselves as an image, too. It is just in these things that we see how the teacher needs to use imagination, to be artistic, for then the teacher will meet the children with a truly “living” quality of soul. And this living quality works upon the children in an imponderable way—imponderable in the best sense."

Rudolf Steiner

This lecture will look in depth at how we can as teachers build and create images that are best suited to the children we teach. 

How do we engage our creative imagination and find the images we need to bring the children living images?

Learning to use wax blocks to find form from colour   

This course is six sessions and will teach participants how to explore form through colour. The course will look at how to hold and use wax blocks on the page, creating fields of colour, then from these fields find form and develop drawings. 

We will work specifically with themes from the lower school and look at how to, not only, begin to master this medium but how to teach it to children.  

Materials 

• Stockmar Wax Blocks:               

                Lemon Yellow               

                Golden Yellow               

                Orange               

                Carmine Red               

                Light Green               

                Dark Green               

                Ultramarine Blue               

                Prussian Blue 

• Good quality texture paper, e.g. cartridge paper  

Access to the video lessons is time limited

Registration fee $30

Course fee $100

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Registration fee and course fee are non-refundable. 

Waldorf Ways CPD Certificate available for course participants 

In this course you will learn how to build your own curriculum using references to guidelines given. 

I want to teach you how to build an authentic curriculum and save you hundreds of dollars on off-the-shelf curriculums that were created for other children by other teachers.

Besides looking at the grade/year curriculums we will explore how to personalise your curriculum to your own child/children so that you are able to bring living Waldorf Education through your teaching. 

The course runs over 4 consecutive days and covers:

• Child Development 
• Curriculum Building
• Observation and Assessment
• Personalising Curriculum

Registration fee $30

Course fee $100

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Registration fee and course fee are non-refundable. 

Waldorf Ways CPD Certificate available for course participants

Creating a main lesson format is laying the foundation for your lessons through the year

In this course we will look at how we go about creating a format for our main lessons and how they differ with different ages groups. Having a solid format allows you the freedom to deliver the Waldorf curriculum with confidence through the year.

The course will delve into: 

• Timing and Elements
• Movement 
• The Three Day Rhythm
• Something New

Registration fee $30

Course fee $100

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Registration fee and course fee are non-refundable. 

Waldorf Ways CPD Certificate available for course participants

In this course we will look at how to introduce the letters of the alphabet though form drawing and images and from these how to begin reading and writing with the children. 

Based on the indications given by Rudolf Steiner we will explore how and when to introduce letters.

Each of us, as teachers, need to have a clear understanding of the process we are embarking on so that we on day one we can see where we will be in Class 3 etc. This oversight and understanding of reading and writing will bring a cohesive continuity in our teaching.

The four areas we will focus on are:

• Images and the alphabet
• Letter sounds and shapes
• From the whole to the part
• Speaking on paper

Registration fee $30

Course fee $120

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Registration fee and course fee are non-refundable. 

Waldorf Ways CPD Certificate available for course participants

When teaching numeracy laying concrete foundation in Class 1 is vital to mathematical understanding. 

In this course we will explore ways of working with quality of number and sequences before introducing the four processes. We will be looking at the development of the basic numeracy skills from Class 1 to Class 3 and how these need regular and imaginative reinforcement to build numeracy skills. Laying out a clear strategy for engaging and reinforcing skills in the children is essential to avoid pitfalls.

We will cover:

• Quality of number
• Sequencing
• The four process
• Practice; visual and oral

Registration fee $30

Course fee $120

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Registration fee and course fee are non-refundable. 

Waldorf Ways CPD Certificate available for course participants

Learning the art of line as imprint of movement   

Form Drawing was a new subject introduced into the first Waldorf school by Rudolf Steiner in 1919. This Subject Lesson draws on a deep understanding of Child Development and aims to support the child to develop spatially.   

The Forms which the children will move and then draw in the lessons are a representation of the spatial world that surrounds them. Deriving inspiration from the entire natural world, each Form enables the child to become aware of their world through movement using the whole body to interact with the Form.   

Form Drawing is not only a Subject Lesson in the Waldorf school but can be further used therapeutically and as a path of inner personal development. This course will lead you through the approaches necessary in the classroom to enliven the work and then will show you how these Forms can deepen your own experiences as a teacher and adult.   

We will learn to understand how these Forms work on the social body of the class and on the children individually, helping to develop the children’s etheric bodies. Furthermore, we will learn how working with these Forms will enhancing your work with the temperaments of the children in your care.  

We will start with day one of Class one, the straight line and curved line, and work our way up through the years until we reach freehand geometry and knotted Celtic Forms. Additionally, there will be time spent on Forms for adults and teachers to use to advance their understanding of Form Drawing and how to teach them and further our own inner personal development.  Materials 

• Chalk board at least A3 size 
• Chalk 
• Paper at least A3 or bigger (cheap newsprint paper is best of you can find it) 
• Lead pencil 2B 
• Charcoal or Conte (optional) 
• Coloured pencils (optional)

Waldorf Ways CPD Certificate available for course participants 

Registration fee $30

Course fee $120

Registration Form Below

Registration fee and course fee are non-refundable. 

Waldorf Ways CPD Certificate available for course participants