About this website and its editor...
Jeff Tunkey teaches both Physical Education and Extra Lesson at Aurora Waldorf School, near Buffalo, NY, and is the school’s Educational Support Team Coordinator. He has also taught teacher groups through the Association for a Healing Education, the HEART Program in Toronto, and at other schools. Other background:
• 20 years of teaching at Aurora Waldorf School; former Board president, Faculty Chair, Leadership Circle facilitator.
• Graduate of the Spacial Dynamics 5-year Inservice training

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​Resources: Books, Links, News & more...
Click the headings below to go to individual Resource pages
Books:

• Reading suggestions
• pdf files for treasured out-of-print books

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Links:

• Other sources for teacher development
• Other websites of interest

​Movement in the news:

• Newspaper and magazine articles to support your advocacy for movement programs

About the resources on this website...
Please let me know via the CONTACT page if you have a suggestion or request for a topic or link to add.

Articles on this website
Click the bold CATEGORY name above each listing section to go to a page with summaries of those articles.

MOVEMENT ARTICLES

• 16 keys to developmental movement needs
• 24 movement standards for Third Grade
• 5th Grade Olympiad Information Packet 
• Boys and Girls in Movement: stereotypes and archetypes
• Children & team sports - erasing a valuable history?
• Children in Ballet: Strung Up, Strung Out
• Children in Martial Arts: the Cost​
• ​Discus skill-builder activity
• Gym/Games Curriculum and Goals, Grades 1 to 8
• Model for an All-Grades Tumbling & Gymnastics Circus
• Motor Development and Children's Play
• Movement in Education
• Paper Sailboat (video instructions)
• Play and its role in the Mental Development of the Child - Vygotsky
• Safety Rules - Providing Structure in Gym Class
• Space is Human​ - from ​Child and Man
• ​String games - 8 basic figures
• Suggestions about organized sports for children
• ​Values of play; rough and tumble play (book review)​
• The Young Child's Play and Social and Emotional Development
• Zoo-robics and Crawl-asthenics

 
ARTICLES FOR WALDORF REMEDIAL TEACHERS

• EST Forms & Paper Trail
• ​​Dutch Second Grade Assessment Manual
• Hierarchy of readiness for learning: what kind of help is needed?
• Remedial Programs: Practical and Ethical Considerations​​

 
WHOLE-CLASS STRENGTHENING

• Additional ideas for shaded drawing
• At what age are children ready to begin First Grade?
• Classroom Exercises to Support Learning Capacities and Readiness
• Classroom Observation Forms and Ideas
• ​Diagnosis and Remedial Teaching in Arithmetic (Schonell)
• Diagonal Shading
• Painting Handwriting
• Recipe for academic success
• Strengthening the four lower senses​
• ​Waking up to learning with copper rod exercises
• ​Waldorf Approach to Arithmetic, The (von Baravalle)
• Working with the 12 senses
• Working with the dimensions of intelligence

 
ARTICLES FOR TEACHERS & PARENTS

• At what age are children ready to begin First Grade?
• Education for Balance and Resilience
• Faith, Love and Hope in The Classroom and Beyond
• ​Have You Heard About Waldorf Education?
• Recipe for academic success
• Speaking with the Young Child Through the Kindergarten Years
• Strengthening the four lower senses
• Teening of Childhood
• Working with the 12 senses
• Working with the dimensions of intelligence


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