Al Conscious Classroom

This blog is designed to share self-directed learning practices while exploring design thinking, project based, entrepreneurial teaching principles. We post reading recommendations, personal reflections, and repost content from leading educators, innovators, and creatives in the field. You can also find us on Instagram at AlConsciousClassroom.

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“The day will come when teachers will not be tested for knowledge, or even pedagogical principles, but for what they are as human beings.”

— Rudolf Steiner,The Education of the Child

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Today 9/4/2020

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Rudolf Steiner, Practical Advice to Teachers

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Rudolf Steiner in Practical Advice for Teachers

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During childhood the foundation is formed for one’s creativity and sensitivity in adulthood. Children are deeply sensitive and extremely vulnerable to all they encounter, absorbing stimuli with their whole beings. If a child has to deal with too much stimulus, he or she will, in defense, shut down the more sensitive parts of his or her being. This leads to the development of a hardened adult, cut off from the springs of sensitivity, compassion, imagination, and inspiration—a condition all too prevalent in today’s world and increasing tremendously as our culture rushes headlong into advanced technology. We can offer our children a great gift by extending the Waldorf sensitivity into our homes; by surrounding the children with warmth, rhythm, and simplicity, they are allowed to develop a sensitive center from which to meet the onrushing times.

Nourishing the Soul of a Child

http://whitemountainwaldorf.org/articles/soul-of-the-child/

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Receive the child in reverence, Educate him in love, And send him forth in freedom.

Rudolf Steiner 

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The day will come when teachers will not be tested for knowledge, or even pedagogical principles, but for what they are as human beings.

Rudolf Steiner,The Education of the Child 

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American schools have often been faulted for not solving social problems, and in the sixties they were condemned for failing to achieve racial integration soon enough. While they were taking the blame for continued segregation, the verdict arrived on the grand curriculum reforms that had followed Sputnik: They had failed... But improvements in schools, Silberman concluded, did not mean there was no crisis: “The test of a society, as of an institution, is not whether it is improving, although certainly such a test is relevant, but whether it is adequate to the needs of the present and of the foreseeable future. Our educating institutions fail that test.” Thus he rejected nostalgia but saw a crisis nonetheless in the appalling quality of life in schools.

Very thorough read on the recent history of America’s public schools

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10 Prominent Women Education Leaders Share Steps to Improve the U.S. Education System

Learn from voices inside the American education system on what works well and what needs improvements.

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My Favorite Study Tool

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Anthroposophy & Waldforf Education - Brian Gray

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Research about the impact of forgiveness on the brain and health [read more here]

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Watch Here

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Nation at Risk

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