Two movies to inspire and rejuvenate! These two movies are as good as it could possibly get in terms of rejuvenation and inspiration. They will each, in their own way, remind you why you're in teaching and help you remember the strengths you truly have. I've shown "Buck" to numerous teacher development workshops... and many of these teachers have shown it to their faculty meetings. —> Read my review |
Especially if your school has combined grades, you will definitely want to watch "To Be and To Have (Etre et Avoir)", a chronicle which follows an academic year in the lives of twelve school kids, ages 4-10, who are taught every subject, from math to gym, by one single dedicated teacher, Georges Lopez.
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Other Resources for Teachers and Parents
Sources for equipment items
Cats Cradle Strings
Olivia Huff in California makes beautiful, durable rainbow strings that are just the right size for school activities. Contact her here.
End Caps for Copper Rods
The problem with those rubber caps often used on copper rods is that they lead to bent rods, and weight down the ends. So here's a source for end caps that provide some safety, stay tight, and fit flush with rod ends is mocap.com - part number RN5/8CBK1.
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.
Website links
The Parenting Passageway
This blog is intended to help support and encourage parents in peaceful parenting for our hectic world. Many wonderful resources for homeschooling with a Waldorf inspiration.
Simplicity Parenting
Based on over twenty years’ experience successfully counseling busy families, Simplicity Parenting teaches parents how to worry and hover less-and how to enjoy more. For those who want to slow their children’s lives down but don’t know where to start, Simplicity Parenting offers both inspiration and a blueprint for change.
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.
Sources for equipment items
Cats Cradle Strings
Olivia Huff in California makes beautiful, durable rainbow strings that are just the right size for school activities. Contact her here.
End Caps for Copper Rods
The problem with those rubber caps often used on copper rods is that they lead to bent rods, and weight down the ends. So here's a source for end caps that provide some safety, stay tight, and fit flush with rod ends is mocap.com - part number RN5/8CBK1.
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.
Website links
The Parenting Passageway
This blog is intended to help support and encourage parents in peaceful parenting for our hectic world. Many wonderful resources for homeschooling with a Waldorf inspiration.
Simplicity Parenting
Based on over twenty years’ experience successfully counseling busy families, Simplicity Parenting teaches parents how to worry and hover less-and how to enjoy more. For those who want to slow their children’s lives down but don’t know where to start, Simplicity Parenting offers both inspiration and a blueprint for change.
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.