Free Waldorf 101 Mini Course by Earthschooling

Have you heard about Waldorf or Steiner Education? Would you like to learn more about it? Earthschooling, a well known Waldorf Education curriculum provider, is offering a Waldorf 101 Mini Course for free in one week. Earthschooling is offering a freebie every Friday, and for this week, they are offering this Mini Course for everyone who wants to know more about Waldorf, or how they can apply Waldorf philosophy at home. It is just a PDF download, and does not require sign up, so you can just go to the site and download the free file.

 

If you have heard about Waldorf Education, you will know rhythm is always an important topic. Here, you will learn more about rhythm, how to set it up for different grades, and what curriculum are needed for each grade as well. Rhythms and curriculum are listed from preschool to grade eight, so whether you have young children or pre-teen kids at home, this might be good for you. There are also examples of daily rhythm, weekly rhythm and monthly rhythm. How to design the rhythm and curriculum in a day is also very important for kids to learn. These are easy to understand and even if you are not homeschooling your children or following Waldorf philosophy, these are actually good for every child, and they are even good for adults.

 

If you would like to learn more about how Waldorf Education is teaching the kids, you will want to know about Main Lesson Block. This is different from how we are taught in public school. Besides the curriculum, many might relate Waldorf Education to natural toys, fairy tales, art, play and handwork. You might also want to know more about the four temperaments – Sanguine, Choleric, Melancholic and Phlegmatic. The first time I attended a seminar about Waldorf Education was to learn these four temperaments. Learning this is not only good for teaching our kids, but also good for us to understand ourselves and everyone else better too. Even if you are not interested in Waldorf Education, I think learning the temperaments is good for everyone too. Earthschooling has provided many good resources in temperaments, the founder, Kristie Karima Burns has even written an adventurous story about the temperaments, and my children loved listening to it. There was once Earthschooling offering the audio format for this story for free (for a certain period), so if they are offering it again, I will surely share with you here as I think it is really a good story. By the way, the name of the story is “Journey of Analise“.

 

This 60 page file really covers a lot about Waldorf Education. I still think this is not only good for those who are interested in Waldorf Education, but for everyone who would like to learn more or have some activities with the kids at home. I always think, by learning to teach my children, I actually learn more than them.

 

If you are interested to know more, click here to check it out before next Friday: Waldorf 101 Mini Course