Lessons

Ausgabe 07-08/26

New Approaches to Learning

This is what high school classes can look like when learning is not primarily taught and assessed through the written word: project-based work, digital tools, and diverse forms of expression open up new avenues for young people’s development.

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Ways to Experience the World

Cornelia Arnodt believes that children should reach their goals in learning to read not by going faster, but by making the process easier. She is a…
Cornelia Arnodt believes that children should reach their goals in learning to read not by going faster, but by making the process easier. She is a class teacher at the Waldorf School in Potsdam and has sought out and tested new approaches to…
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Twelfth-grade Projects: A springboard into life?

Waldorf schools offer their own graduation certificate, which is based less on exams and more on practical experience. Central to this are the…
Waldorf schools offer their own graduation certificate, which is based less on exams and more on practical experience. Central to this are the so-called year projects: In eighth grade, students explore their creativity through topics of their own…
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Helping to Shape the Culture of Remembrance

Our author teaches history at the Waldorf School in Potsdam. She is convinced that developing a deeper understanding of the past requires places that…
Our author teaches history at the Waldorf School in Potsdam. She is convinced that developing a deeper understanding of the past requires places that engage all the senses. Acts of remembrance are also helpful. She therefore participated in two…
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How an Avatar Project Became an Educational Model

Because a boy with cancer was supposed to participate in class digitally, our author developed a special approach for her first-grade class at the…
Because a boy with cancer was supposed to participate in class digitally, our author developed a special approach for her first-grade class at the Saar-Pfalz Waldorf School. This experience showed her that hands-on subjects are indispensable in the…
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The Middle East Conflict and Heartfelt Thinking

Ofer Sagie, a Waldorf teacher from Harduf in Israel, has German and Israeli citizenship and has been traveling around the world for years. At the…
Ofer Sagie, a Waldorf teacher from Harduf in Israel, has German and Israeli citizenship and has been traveling around the world for years. At the Balingen Waldorf School, he met with grades ten, eleven, and twelve for discussions. Our author reports…
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Looking Away is Never a Solution

Political scientist and mediator Christine Laude wrote the brochure «Bullying and Cyberbullying – Invisible Violence» for the Bund der Freien…
Political scientist and mediator Christine Laude wrote the brochure «Bullying and Cyberbullying – Invisible Violence» for the Bund der Freien Waldorfschulen (Association of Waldorf Schools Germany). She spoke to Erziehungskunst about the complexity…
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Walking Through Magdeburg for one Night

You don't always have to travel far away to experience something special. It can also be possible in your own neighborhood if you simply change your…
You don't always have to travel far away to experience something special. It can also be possible in your own neighborhood if you simply change your perspective. Our author spent seven hours walking through her hometown at night with her ninth-grade…
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Craft Lessons in the Lower School

At most Waldorf schools, formal craft lessons only begin in fifth or sixth grade. Our authors advocate an earlier start to crafting and refer to…
At most Waldorf schools, formal craft lessons only begin in fifth or sixth grade. Our authors advocate an earlier start to crafting and refer to Rudolf Steiner.
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Students Build Small Robots for School Garden

At the Freie Waldorfschule Frankfurt/Oder, computer science teacher Sören Leonhardt shows his upper school students how they can rethink technology…
At the Freie Waldorfschule Frankfurt/Oder, computer science teacher Sören Leonhardt shows his upper school students how they can rethink technology and the future – beyond formulas and dry programming. In a region where some young people are hopeless…
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Music from Outer Space

Geometric shapes, AI and the creativity of young people and trained musicians – these are the components of a project in Potsdam that has resulted in…
Geometric shapes, AI and the creativity of young people and trained musicians – these are the components of a project in Potsdam that has resulted in a unique symphony. Classes six and seven from the Freie Waldorfschule Werder/Havel also helped…
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