Movement for childhood - resources for continuing education and reading

RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS and PARENTS

Continuing Education

For over twenty years the Association for a Healing Education has served as an agent of change in the culture of education for children with individual needs. It has acted as a “listening ear” to the needs and questions of classroom teachers, parents, and therapists who are involved with providing care for the child of today. Our main work is with children in regular classrooms who, faced with the challenges of their destiny and the world environment, often require some help for a time. Our intent is to help caregivers provide right practices in education, therapy and medicine through a deeper understanding of child development and hindrances to that development.

Spacial Dynamics^® Institute

Spacial Dynamics^® is the study of the interplay between the human being and space. The Spacial Dynamics Institute offers public workshops in Spacial Dynamics®, consultations, publications, and videos, as well as a five-year in-service training program.

Further reading - website links

Millenial Child

We hope to serve as a contemporary resource for people interested in educating children in the twenty-first century. Our foundation rests on Waldorf education, and we enthusiastically acknowledge that the Waldorf method is based on Anthroposophy, a worldview promulgated by Rudolf Steiner. Rather than prescribing narrow limits to the scope of this web site, Steiner's approach serves as a springboard for understanding and embracing all that serves the true needs of the modern child. We hope that millennialchild.com is helpful to all educators and parents who visit it.

National Institute for Play

What is Play? It is a state of being that is intensely pleasurable. It energizes and enlivens us. It eases our burdens, renews a natural sense of optimism and opens us up to new possibilities. These wonderful, valuable qualities are just the beginning of what play is. Scientists - neuroscientists, developmental biologists, psychologists, scientists from every point on the scientific compass - have recently begun viewing play as a profound biological process. They are learning that play sculpts our brain; it makes us smarter and more adaptable. For many animal species it has evolved over eons with result that the most advanced animals play the most i.e., play is more central to their development. Humans are the biggest players of all, specially designed by nature to play throughout our long lives.

zanerian.com

Promoting the Art of Ornamental Penmanship. There was a time in the not too distant past when the term Master Penman (men and women) was used to describe individuals who attained mastery of the writing arts. The purpose of this web site is to keep their memory of their work alive.

Further reading - developmental insights

THE EXTRA LESSON – Movement, Drawing and Painting Exercises, Audrey McAllen. Rudolf Steiner College Press, Sixth Edition, 2004

FOUNDATIONS OF THE EXTRA LESSON, Joep Eikenboom. Rudolf Steiner College Press, 2007.

A HEALING EDUCATION - How Can Waldorf Education Meet the Needs of Children?, Michaela Glockler, M.D. Rudolf Steiner College Press. Five lectures on health and education given in February, 1998.

TAKE TIME, Mary Nash-Wortham, Jean Hunt. The Robinswood Press; 4Rev Ed edition, 1997.

THE HUMAN SOUL, Karl König. Anthroposophic Press 1959, 1966, 1973.

THE TWELVE SENSES, Albert Soesman. Hawthorn Press.

CHILDREN, PLAY AND DEVELOPMENT, Fergus P. Hughes. Allyn and Bacon, 1991.

INFINITY WALK - Preparing Your Mind to Learn, Deborah Sunbeck. Jalmar Press, 1996.

A TEACHER’S WINDOW INTO THE CHILD’S MIND, Sally Goddard. Fern Ridge Press, 1996. A very clear-cut explanation of reflexes and their relationship to learning problems.

FRAMES OF MIND – The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, Howard Gardner. BasicBooks, 1993.

INTELLIGENCES REFRAMED – Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century, Howard Gardner. BasicBooks, 1999.



According to science... “Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing a consensus view that play is something more than a way for restless kids to work off steam; more than a way for chubby kids to burn off calories; more than a frivolous luxury. Play, in their view, is a central part of neurological growth and development — one important way that children build complex, skilled, responsive, socially adept and cognitively flexible brains.” From an article titled“Taking Play Seriously” in the Feb. 17, 2008 New York Times Magazine
	RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS and PARENTS Continuing Education Association for a Healing Education For over twenty years the Association for a Healing Education has served as an agent of change in the culture of education for children with individual needs. It has acted as a “listening ear” to the needs and questions of classroom teachers, parents, and therapists who are involved with providing care for the child of today. Our main work is with children in regular classrooms who, faced with the challenges of their destiny and the world environment, often require some help for a time. Our intent is to help caregivers provide right practices in education, therapy and medicine through a deeper understanding of child development and hindrances to that development. Spacial Dynamics^® Institute Spacial Dynamics^® is the study of the interplay between the human being and space. The Spacial Dynamics Institute offers public workshops in Spacial Dynamics®, consultations, publications, and videos, as well as a five-year in-service training program. Further reading - website links Millenial Child We hope to serve as a contemporary resource for people interested in educating children in the twenty-first century. Our foundation rests on Waldorf education, and we enthusiastically acknowledge that the Waldorf method is based on Anthroposophy, a worldview promulgated by Rudolf Steiner. Rather than prescribing narrow limits to the scope of this web site, Steiner's approach serves as a springboard for understanding and embracing all that serves the true needs of the modern child. We hope that millennialchild.com is helpful to all educators and parents who visit it. National Institute for Play What is Play? It is a state of being that is intensely pleasurable. It energizes and enlivens us. It eases our burdens, renews a natural sense of optimism and opens us up to new possibilities. These wonderful, valuable qualities are just the beginning of what play is. Scientists - neuroscientists, developmental biologists, psychologists, scientists from every point on the scientific compass - have recently begun viewing play as a profound biological process. They are learning that play sculpts our brain; it makes us smarter and more adaptable. For many animal species it has evolved over eons with result that the most advanced animals play the most i.e., play is more central to their development. Humans are the biggest players of all, specially designed by nature to play throughout our long lives. zanerian.com Promoting the Art of Ornamental Penmanship. There was a time in the not too distant past when the term Master Penman (men and women) was used to describe individuals who attained mastery of the writing arts. The purpose of this web site is to keep their memory of their work alive. Further reading - developmental insights THE EXTRA LESSON – Movement, Drawing and Painting Exercises, Audrey McAllen. Rudolf Steiner College Press, Sixth Edition, 2004 FOUNDATIONS OF THE EXTRA LESSON, Joep Eikenboom. Rudolf Steiner College Press, 2007. A HEALING EDUCATION - How Can Waldorf Education Meet the Needs of Children?, Michaela Glockler, M.D. Rudolf Steiner College Press. Five lectures on health and education given in February, 1998. TAKE TIME, Mary Nash-Wortham, Jean Hunt. The Robinswood Press; 4Rev Ed edition, 1997. THE HUMAN SOUL, Karl König. Anthroposophic Press 1959, 1966, 1973. THE TWELVE SENSES, Albert Soesman. Hawthorn Press. CHILDREN, PLAY AND DEVELOPMENT, Fergus P. Hughes. Allyn and Bacon, 1991. INFINITY WALK - Preparing Your Mind to Learn, Deborah Sunbeck. Jalmar Press, 1996. A TEACHER’S WINDOW INTO THE CHILD’S MIND, Sally Goddard. Fern Ridge Press, 1996. A very clear-cut explanation of reflexes and their relationship to learning problems. FRAMES OF MIND – The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, Howard Gardner. BasicBooks, 1993. INTELLIGENCES REFRAMED – Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century, Howard Gardner. BasicBooks, 1999. Further reading - games and tumbling Four indispensible, Waldorf-based books of games and ideas about development are: LOOKING FORWARD – Games, rhymes and exercises to help children develop their learning abilities, Molly von Heider. Hawthorn Press, 1995. An indispensible book of games and ideas about development. GAMES CHILDREN PLAY – How games and sport help children develop, Kim Brooking-Payne. Hawthorne Press, 1996. CHILD’S PLAY 1 & 2; CHILD’S PLAY 3, both by Wil van Haren and Rudolf Kischnick. Hawthorne Press. The GV1200 area of most libraries will have at least one or two books of classic games or games from around the world. My favorites are: THE BOOK OF GAMES FOR HOME, SCHOOL AND PLAYGROUND, William Forbush and Harry Allen. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, various editions from 1929 to 1968. An elementary school phys ed teacher could probably spend an entire career just working out of the pages of this book, together with… STUNTS AND TUMBLING FOR GIRLS, Virginia Lee Horne. The Ronald Press Company, 1943. CIRCUS TECHNIQUES - Juggling, equilibristics, and vaulting, Hovey Burgess. Drama Book Specialists, 1976. BALANCING AND SPORT ACROBATICS, Stan Buchholtz. Arco Publishing, 1978. GAMES for the PLAYGROUND, Home, School and Gymnasium, Jessie H. Bancroft. The MacMillan Company, 1927. GAMES AND SPORTS THE WORLD AROUND, Sarah Etheridge Hunt. Ronald Press, 1964 Many of the older books you will find in the GV1200 section are also still available through websites like Powells.com, alibris.com or amazon.com. Another source for books of games is the bargain-books publisher Dover, (doverpublications.com). Books from Dover include: GAMES AND SONGS OF AMERICAN CHILDREN, William Wells Newell, 1903; HANDBOOK OF RECREATIONAL GAMES, Neva L. Boyd, 1945; FASCINATING STRING FIGURES, International String Figure Association; and STRING FIGURES AND HOW TO MAKE THEM, Caroline Furness Jayne, 1906. Beech Tree Books offers a number of nice, low cost books, including: Eentsy Weentsy Spider (finger games); Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road (riddles); and Six Sick Sheep (tongue twisters).




		Updated 7/30/2009