01 Mar 2019 | Anthroposophy, Education, Primary, Uncategorized
By Lourdes Alarcón Sevilla.
I am a student of Early Childhood Teaching at the University of Alicante Y, what's more, I am doing the training in Pedagogy Waldorf. Ambas things I'm doing them simultaneously.
In the three years that I have career, in the Degree of Education, Never with there was mentionado nothing about Waldorf pedagogy in class, and refers to others pedagogies, but of It isthis one specifically, many times, they were not even aware of it. Lor which one seems to me to show a lack of updating and research.
Thus, I was very surprised when the other day, in a subject related to psychomotor skills and movement, The teacher stopped to talk to us about the PWaldorf education and Rudolf Steiner, his thought and his work. Athe rest, He showed us videos in which the Alicante Waldorf School appeared, specifically a nursery classroom of 0 a 3 years during aper day. encouraged us to will allow children freedom of movement to experiment, to be surprised, investigate… Aof over He explained to us the importance of respect their stages of development Y no take them by thinking ahead of time.
I really liked hearing about this in class and seeing how the University encourages us to know and put it into practice.ta pedagogy and leaving education behind excathedra.
17 Feb 2019 | Education, Uncategorized
Interior images space.
Fuente: Rainer Patzlaff / School Doctors Brazil
Translation: Claudia de Moura
Children love dealing with stories, the stories, fables and legends and it is important that the teacher or educator knows, why do children feel that need: here they are living in a psychic environment that is their own. Given, that these narratives contain a quantity of life wisdom and experience, of deep meaning and intelligence, thoughts and logic, without expressing it in concepts, but in images. They magically make entire landscapes appear in front of the soul and their immediate presence has nothing to envy of the sensorially experienceable world., which are produced by the child himself, by force of your fantasy, and therefore they are own production.
The decisive means through which the imaginative world reaches its development in children, is speech. It has the strength that everything that the teacher or narrator is seeing in front of his inner gaze, also generates in front of the inner eye of children, in its own way.
So, the effect is insurmountable, when the teacher manages to acquire the ability to narrate from memory, in an imaginative way, expressive.
Such experiences are nutrients for children, that they seek to obtain daily. It is not about information or desire to know, but of the intuitive discovery of the rich inner worlds, that through speech they open symbolically – imaginatively in front of them. Although our time is overwhelmed by technical images, the desire for those experiences does not decrease.
Conversely: grows to a greater extent, in which children find no answer for their soul forces in the world around them. Here, the school has an important cultural mission, but in the sense of developing a faculty of empathy, capacity for mental differentiation, strength of conception and social sensitivity.
The important thing about this is, that the material to be narrated, be the one corresponding to each age. It's like this, that in the Waldorf School the course throughout the First Seven Years, It goes with fairy tales and from the second seven years onwards with fables, legends and sagas, even the stories of the Old Testament, as an initial history of the world and culture, allowing, let the images speak for themselves.
14 Feb 2019 | Primary, Uncategorized
“In a world of plastic and noise, I want to be made of mud and silence” Eduardo Galeano.
For a few decades, a great industry has been emerging around childhood. An industry in which I wonder if there is too much "plastic and noise" and little "mud and silence", little space to be yourself, for that conscious place, happy, warm and simple that I feel my children need to grow. The first time I stepped foot in a Waldorf Kindergarten, I saw a sunny corner with a fertile and beautiful environment, suitable to take care of the first sprouts of the seeds that will be the women and men of tomorrow ....
It was clearer to me when my four-year-old daughter met her teacher, the first day of class. He crouched down to her height, He looked into her eyes with a radiant smile and opened his arms. My daughter got closer to her little by little until they hugged each other.. "How I wanted to meet you and what a good time we are going to have a good time! ”, Told him. At that moment I felt very excited and grateful that someone received her in that way, a welcome full of illusion, of affection and conscience on the path they were going to travel together. Although parents can stay in the period of bonding with the children, in our case it was not necessary, that moment was enough to awaken the confidence and security that a child needs to feel at home in Kindergarten.
From this garden my daughter does not bring homework, but the pockets full of treasures: piñas, palos, seeds, dry leaves ... It also brings drawings, all different, full of colors, of lines, of fantasy, with the date and name carefully written by your teacher, as if wanting to remind us that they are important and that we keep them for them.
In this Garden there are no notes or reports on whether the letters are known, the numbers or the colors. The teacher tells me if she has been happy or talkative, if you seemed sleepy or if you haven't had a good day. He tells me with sincerity and lightness the anecdotes and the conflicts, their encounters and misunderstandings, your achievements and unfinished business, but without labels, with confidence in their strengths and open to the wonderful capacity for transformation and change that children have.
In the south it rains little, but when it does, Kindergarten is a great party where, well covered with their boots and rain bibs, the little explorers happily enjoy the magic of the wet earth and the music of the puddles.
In this Garden the “Cantajuegos” does not sound nor are there digital blackboards, the voice of their teacher and her presence is like the water of an inexhaustible source of melodies from which the children drink every day. Popular songs, pentatonic, according to the time of year, also of rhymes and finger games, that later at home they hum without stopping.
From this Garden my daughter brings phrases full of force, that have become frequent sayings in our day to day as a large family: "To whom it is his turn, touch, luck is not wrong "he says when there is conflict over the blue glass. "One can have a little while to get angry", says when something irritates him.
In this garden, the breath and the rhythm of the morning is harmonious and complete, protecting children from the intellectual burden that is already common at these ages. One day I had to go early to pick her up and she didn't want to leave without listening to the story, the narration with which they end each day, which is like that delicious dessert after a healthy meal, but that in this case feeds his inner world.
For these and other experiences, I am convinced that the first shoots of our daughter are accompanied by experiences that she treasures in her heart. I trust that they are forces and impulse so that , also in his adult life, can be herself.
Carmen Saura, mother of the Waldorf School of Alicante.
15 Nov 2018 | Education, Primary, Uncategorized
Necessary material: a stick, a balloon, two sheets of tissue paper (they can be of different colors), lana, flour, Water, a candle with a plastic cup about 5cm high
1) Catch a balloon, puff it up and draw a line
2) Prepare a flour and water paste by mixing hot water with flour. Break up the lumps little by little with a fork
3) Cut the tissue paper into strips
4) Support the balloon in a bowl or a cup
5) Begin to spread paste with your fingers on the bottom of the balloon. Always put a paper and another crossed.
6) This part must be reinforced well because that is where the candle will go
7) You have to put several layers and also reinforce the part where the part has been made. There you will put the wool to hang them.
8/9) Let it dry for a couple of days.
10) Puncture the balloon
11) Trim to leave a bowl
12) Make a couple of holes on all four sides. Pass the wool from one side to the other
13) Stick the candle in the ass with silicone
14) And finally put the stick
