Lessons

Ausgabe 09/23

The moving classroom

The Moving Classroom is one of the Waldorf school concepts that is attracting increasing attention in school and inclusive education, but is controversial within Waldorf’s own ranks. Children, parents and teachers in lower school are easy to convince; teachers often have reservations because they have to take leave of the traditional principle of frontal organisation. Wolfgang Auer and Angelika Wiehl explain the educational benefits of the Moving Classroom, which they played a key role in developing.

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The challenge of ChatGPT

Homework and assignments finished in no time at all? Many pupils and some teachers have been using it for quite some time, the ChatGPT software.…
Homework and assignments finished in no time at all? Many pupils and some teachers have been using it for quite some time, the ChatGPT software. Robert Neumann is a lecturer in media education and other subjects at the Freie Hochschule Stuttgart –…
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Arriving in Movement

When children start school, they should have the following skills: attentiveness, impulse control, independence, cooperation skills and a sense of…
When children start school, they should have the following skills: attentiveness, impulse control, independence, cooperation skills and a sense of time. From this finding, the concept of the Moving Classroom emerged in the 1990s, which is also…
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Permanence in Change

Class teacher Hiltrud Kamolz takes great pleasure in creating the seasonal table and incorporates the seasons daily in short narratives at the…
Class teacher Hiltrud Kamolz takes great pleasure in creating the seasonal table and incorporates the seasons daily in short narratives at the beginning of class in the form of a meaningful story. The story can be entirely focused on the seasonal…
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The Image in Education

One of the fundamental features of Waldorf education is the work with images. Language can create images in people that remain powerful and…
One of the fundamental features of Waldorf education is the work with images. Language can create images in people that remain powerful and unforgettable. Christoph Wiechert describes how parents and teachers can use them for successful education.
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Martyn Rawson, Albert Schmelzer,

Building blocks for a diverse, anti-racist Waldorf education

How can anti-racism be anchored in the curriculum of Waldorf education so that pupils are sensitised to exclusion and defamation? In addition to…
How can anti-racism be anchored in the curriculum of Waldorf education so that pupils are sensitised to exclusion and defamation? In addition to generally making empathy part of education, the authors advocate, among other things, addressing racial…
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Information literacy as an educational task

Media education in Waldorf schools ideally begins on the first day of school. For the author thinks that the anthroposophical understanding of the…
Media education in Waldorf schools ideally begins on the first day of school. For the author thinks that the anthroposophical understanding of the human being and media education are not contradictory. In his opinion, age-appropriate teaching that…
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"We would like to have grades so we know where we stand."

Do grade reports really help to find our position?
Do grade reports really help to find our position?
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I can't get the images out of my head

In March, our class visited the Holocaust memorial in Bergen-Belsen together with class 10 of our school. The trip was part of the curriculum for…
In March, our class visited the Holocaust memorial in Bergen-Belsen together with class 10 of our school. The trip was part of the curriculum for class 10, who were studying the Nazi period and the Holocaust in their history main lesson. Because we…
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Time for media parents' evenings?

For many years, Waldorf schools have been dealing with the question of what exactly is meant by "media literacy", how it comes about and what can and…
For many years, Waldorf schools have been dealing with the question of what exactly is meant by "media literacy", how it comes about and what can and should be done for it in school. Existing beliefs about the necessary maturity and the real,…
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The power of images and the Waldorf Peace Network

War in Europe. This was unimaginable for most of us until Russia's attack on Ukraine. Just as the war of aggression in Europe has shaken us adults, it…
War in Europe. This was unimaginable for most of us until Russia's attack on Ukraine. Just as the war of aggression in Europe has shaken us adults, it has also made the pupils, children and young people pause in their everyday lives.
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