Tin got in the Waldorf School – yay!
With the Waldorf method of instruction, the class teacher involves the children in the subject through presentation, story telling, writing, reading, recitation, dramatic acting, painting, drawing, and movement. The teacher follows a rhythm, day to day, which begins with a review of the previous day’s material, further development of the subject matter and then introduction of new material. Day by day throughout the block, the teacher builds up the subject matter and the students build up their Main Lesson books. The involvement of the students in the Main Lesson promotes and develops active listening, imagination, memory and verbal skills.
The Waldorf-methods curriculum follows the general outline of an independent Waldorf school. Writing is taught before reading and is experienced at first through stories and pictures. Nature stories are introduced in the early grades and develop in the later grades into more advanced investigations of zoology, geology, space science, botany, chemistry, physics, physiology, and anatomy. Math and English are taught in an imaginative way similar to independent Waldorf schools. The specific songs, stories, poems, and so on which the teacher brings to her class may differ somewhat in a Waldorf-methods school.