This homeschooling handbook offers resources for parents homeschooling with their children, by a teacher turned home-educator. Anna Dusseau explores the purpose of education, how children learn, the benefits of home education, key questions and activities for homeschooling to get started.
A Guide for Caring when Interacting, Teaching, and Learning in Cyberspace
This innovative text, built on the foundations of Watson's Caring Science, demonstrates how nursing professionals can develop virtual relationships that encompass caring and understanding in professional, teaching/learning, and everyday cyber communications. It describes how caring and love can transcend distance, space, and time in our ......
Setting out on the journey of adolescence is like taking a boat into turbulent waters, not knowing where one will end up. Will the boat capsize or find its bearing? Where is the rudder? The community of adults in a high school environment is a community of trust in which we need to foster hope, belief in positive change, and commitment to ......
Developmental Movement, Drawing, and Painting in Waldorf Education
A compelling book for teachers that argues that a focus on posture, special orientation and coordination is as important to healthy child development as academic content.
Teaching Your Children at Home Using the Waldorf Curriculum
In recent years, there has been a notable increase in the number of parents choosing to teach their children at home rather than sending them to school.
In this book, Catherine Read describes her experiences following her decision to school her children at home and to follow the curriculum used in Steiner-Waldorf schools. The result is the story ......
12 lectures, various cities, November 19, 1922-August 30, 1924 (CW 304a) The Waldorf school movement was gaining increasing recognition by the time these public lectures on Waldorf education took place. In this collection, as in the previous volume, Rudolf Steiner is outspoken about the spiritual nature of human beings and the world--including ......
Teaching, Learning, and Caring in the Virtual Setting
Online Nursing Education as Art and Science: Teaching, Learning, and Caring in the Virtual Setting is an enlightening and timely resource that addresses the complexities of online teaching for nurse educators. It offers a dual perspective by intertwining the technical 'science' of online course creation with the 'art' of fostering meaningful ......
A Teacher's Guide: Ethnography, Geography, History, Culture, Stories, Art
"I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles to the North, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six thousand feet. In the day-time you felt that you had got high up, near to the sun, but the early mornings and evenings were limpid and restful, and the nights were cold. ......
Adapting Your Instruction for the Virtual Classroom
By the time they start their first job, special education teachers should be equipped with evidence- and research-based strategies to teach content and assess learning. While many of today's special education teachers have skills in using instructional and assistive technologies, few are prepared to be distance educators for students with ......
