 | The Waldorf Promise
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $12.95 For anyone who may be undecided on whether things like Standardized Testing and No Child Left Behind really work, check out this amazing documentary.
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 | You Wanted to Know What a Waldorf School Is and What It Is Not by Alan Howard
Buy used from: $49.45 An excellent overview and a quick read.
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 | Understanding Waldorf Education: Teaching from the Inside Out by Jack Petrash
Buy new: $15.56 / Used from: $10.48 Offers a jargon-free view of Waldorf schools with their philosophy of the importance of a three-dimensional education
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 | School As a Journey: The Eight-Year Odyssey of a Waldorf Teacher and His Class by Torin M. Finser
Buy new: $13.45 / Used from: $1.48 A great view into the lower school and why 1 teacher accompanies the children for eight years.
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 | Teaching As a Lively Art by Marjorie Spock
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $2.99 The curriculum descriptions by grade are invaluable in understanding lessons.
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 | Waldorf Alphabet Book by Famke Zonneveld
Buy new: $11.65 / Used from: $10.74 Includes William Wards informative essay, "Learning to Read and Write in Waldorf Schools." Each consonant and vowel comes to life in vivid pictures that show each letters unique qualities in the world.
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 | Introduction to Steiner Education: The Waldorf School by Francis Edmunds
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $10.26 Excellent introduction to the theory and practice of Steiner/Waldorf education discusses the role of the class teacher, the "main lesson," the four temperaments, attitudes toward discipline, competition, and examinations. Answers are based on the authors many years of rich and varied experience as an educator of both children and adults.
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 | Adventures in Steiner Education: An Introduction to the Waldorf Approach (Bringing Spirit to Life) by Brien Masters
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 | What Is A Waldorf Kindergarten?
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $8.90 Learn what lies behind the Waldorf kindergarten methods and the practical ways in which it is applied by teachers in the classroom.
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 | Children at Play: Using Waldorf Principles to Foster Childhood Development by Heidi Britz-Crecelius
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $4.44 Unstructured play is the breeding ground of gray matter - imagine what a child's play life was like before our t.v. babysitting days and logo toys eliminated much of our creativity.
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 | Waldorf Schools: Kindergarten to Early Years
Buy used from: $9.53 this anthology deals with subjects like: the effect of Waldorf education on home life; what do we mean by education as an art; the moral education of young children; the role of the teacher; work with underprivileged children. It's likely that many of your questions about Waldorf education will be addressed in this book.
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 | Waldorf Schools: Upper Grades & High School
Buy used from: $10.31 Subjects in this volume include: machines and men; children's quarrels; modern physics in the Waldorf high school; the value of art for the adolescent. These essays, rich with insights into the teenage years, show how the creative imagination can set young hearts andminds on fire.
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| In a nutshell (Dialogues with Parents at Acorn Hill) by Nancy Foster
Buy used from: $24.97 Nancy Foster has not only given us great explanation of just about everything parents new to Waldorf education ever wonder about, but she has poured over 30 years experience as a Waldorf kindergarten teacher into the most concise, readable and useful book.
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 | Waldorf Education: A Family Guide
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $8.41 Wealth of material on the temperaments, multi-culturalism, rhythm and balance, and the role of spirit and religion.
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 | The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $2.98 A Waldorf staple - 1st and 2nd graders live for stories that give a clear understanding of right and wrong.
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 | The Seven-Year-Old Wonder Book by Isabel Wyatt
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $6.23 Suitable for both boys and girls ages 6 1/2 to 8, but most especially 7.
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 | Beyond the Rainbow Bridge : Nurturing our children from birth to seven by Barbara J. Patterson
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $9.99 The importance of rhythm in the life of children, the importance of play , the importance of calmness, and she has a chapter on creative discipline. It is hard for adults to cope in our modern lifestyle; think of how much more difficult it can be for children.
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 | Seven Times the Sun: Guiding Your Child Through the Rhythms of the Day by Shea Darian
Buy used from: $12.95 Offers times of the day and night where parents might want to incorporate some kind of rituals to provide their children with a stable and balanced life.
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 | You Are Your Child's First Teacher: What Parents Can Do With and For Their Chlldren from Birth to Age Six by Rahima Baldwin Dancy
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $3.21 A philosophy of childrearing that is insightful, meaningful and very compassionate. The author writes from her conscience and isn't afraid of offending, yet manages to be gentle and non-offensive in doing so.
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 | Natural Childhood: The First Practical and Holistic Guide for Parents of the Developing by John Thomson
Buy used from: $0.19 Have you realized how frustrated a child is in a world of plastic toys that break easily, or don't stay together to begin with? Children are more content to collect leaves in the park. Chapters on child development, imagination and play, health and education - all from an integrated, holistic perspective.
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 | The Waldorf Kindergarten Snack Book by Lisa Hildreth
Buy new: $11.65 / Used from: $12.72 It includes sample snack menus, information of eating "a grain a day" and sections on bread, soup, fruit, birthday cakes, muffins, and special foods for the festivals.
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| Waldorf Parenting Handbook by Lois Cusick
Buy used from: $49.16 The Child is Born; The First Three Years; The Temperaments; Fantasy and Fact in Early Childhood; How: Methods and the Three R's - Writing before Reading; The Magic Years: First to Third Grade; Grades Four to Seven & Puberty: Birth of the Self
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