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 ......
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 ......
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.
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 ......
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 ......
Addressing Education Emergencies Through Integrated Student Supports
In Critical Conditions, Elaine Weiss, Bruce Levine, and Kimberly Sterin outline successful strategies for whole child and whole community support that can help school systems meet broader student needs in times of disruption. They take a deep look at Integrated Student Support (ISS), an approach to education policy and practice aligned with ......
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 ......
Classroom teachers are increasingly expected to teach online - creating content area courses from scratch with little support or training. But high-quality, researched-based online teaching has its own particular set of skills and expectations, and most resources are directed at college-level instructors.