On our thirteenth and final episode of Season One of Anthroposophy Today, Scott and Sarita—a certified Waldorf teacher with 25 years of teaching experience--talk about the Waldorf twelfth grade classroom! Thank you for joining us on this Waldorf journey! We’ve been so glad to have you with us and can’t wait to share more episodes with you in Season Two, coming soon. Join us for this conversation about senior year in the Waldorf high school, and to hear Scott and Sarita reflect back on and offer some closing thoughts on all the years in the Waldorf school leading up to graduation. Among other t ..read more

On this week’s episode of Anthroposophy Today, Scott and Sarita—a certified Waldorf teacher with 25 years of teaching experience--talk about the Waldorf eleventh grade classroom! Join us for this conversation and check out our blog post (link below) to hear Scott and Sarita discuss, among other things: The dark night of the soul and the crisis of aimlessness which strikes in eleventh grade How revisiting a study of the Renaissance helps the eleventh grader find closure with their grade school/high school experience and prepare for university and higher learning The key word for guiding the el ..read more

On this week’s episode of Anthroposophy Today, Scott and Sarita—a certified Waldorf teacher with 25 years of teaching experience--talk about the Waldorf tenth grade classroom! Join us for this conversation and check out our blog post (link below) to hear Scott and Sarita discuss, among other things: A developmental picture of the tenth grader The boldness that borders on rudeness of the tenth grader The role of ideals, inspiration, and objective guidance in the Waldorf classroom as the ego/higher self develops within the tenth grader The development of critical thinking The Odyssey: archetype ..read more

On this week’s episode of Anthroposophy Today, Scott and Sarita—a certified Waldorf teacher with 25 years of teaching experience--talk about the Waldorf ninth grade classroom! Join us for this conversation and check out our blog post (link below) to hear Scott and Sarita discuss, among other things: · The “third birth”: the birth of the astral body and what this means · Why revolutions in world history and American history are studied at this age · How Waldorf education meets and supports the child as they experience the polarity of hormonal changes, and the extremes of emotion that are so typ ..read more

On this week’s episode of Anthroposophy Today, Scott and Sarita—a certified Waldorf teacher with 25 years of teaching experience--talk about the Waldorf eighth grade classroom! Join us for this conversation and check out our blog post (link below) to hear Scott and Sarita discuss, among other things: The importance of the relationship between Waldorf teacher, students, and parents How and why the teacher uses specific themes to guide the class throughout the school year  Looking at eighth grade as a “stepping up”, rather than a graduation History: an overview of the Civil War, the Americ ..read more

On this week’s episode of Anthroposophy Today, Scott and Sarita—a certified Waldorf teacher with 25 years of teaching experience--talk about the Waldorf seventh grade classroom! Join us for this conversation and check out our blog post (link below) to hear Scott and Sarita discuss, among other things: A developmental picture of the seventh grader The challenges of entering adolescence and how to deal with them Choosing material that best suits your class or children Astronomy Recitation of a poem by Walt Whitman we love to use in the seventh grade astronomy block How biography is used as a te ..read more

On this week’s episode of Anthroposophy Today, Scott and Sarita—a certified Waldorf teacher with 25 years of teaching experience--talk about the Waldorf sixth grade classroom! Join us for this conversation and check out our blog post (link below) to hear Scott and Sarita discuss, among other things: Characteristics of this developmental stage A couple examples of beloved literary characters who typify the sixth grader’s experience How the child’s conception of causality and cause and effect are awakened and developed this year Waldorf form drawing Geometry and perspective drawing Mineralogy Hi ..read more

On this week’s episode of Anthroposophy Today, Scott and Sarita talk about the Waldorf fourth grade classroom! Join us for this conversation and check out our blog post (link below) to hear Scott and Sarita discuss, among other things: The Anthroposophical concept of the seven-year-periods of development throughout the life of a human being Characteristics of the child in fourth grade and how the curriculum supports them in this stage of development Why we talk about Waldorf “guidelines” rather than a strict Waldorf “curriculum” Norse myths and sagas in fourth grade Studying the animal kingd ..read more

On this week’s episode of Anthroposophy Today, Scott and Sarita talk about the Waldorf third grade classroom! Join us for this conversation and check out our blog post (link below) to hear Scott and Sarita discuss, among other things: the “nine-year-change”: why third grade is such an important year of transition and how to support the children as they go through it practicality: the key guiding principle for third grade how and why farming and gardening are taught this year examples of verses that can be used with children in different blocks  knitting in the Waldorf classroom ..read more

On this week’s episode of Anthroposophy Today, Scott and Sarita talk about the Waldorf second grade classroom! Join us for this conversation and check out our blog post (link below) to hear Scott and Sarita discuss, among other things: why a Waldorf class traditionally has the same teacher for all eight years of grade school the concepts of “sympathy” and “antipathy” from an Anthroposophical perspective fables and legends in second grade, with examples teaching grammar as something living, and more than just rules mental math and the foundations for algebra what math can teach us ab ..read more