My work keeps getting simpler and deeper - fewer things, more awareness. In what ways is your work with children different today than at an earlier time? Both boys and girls can switch sexual identity in a play - girls as huntsmen, boys as Little Red Cap or grandma. They play together easily, playing everything from hunting elk to house. Consider new capacities as well as problem areas.Ī: The girls are strong and the boys are gentle to a larger degree. Q: Please describe any changes you may have seen in today’s children in contrast to those of five years ago or earlier. One was published last spring and we now publish another. A few responses were held aside, however, for they gave such rich pictures of kindergarten life today that we wanted to publish them in Gateways. In Fall 1998, WECAN sent out its annual questionnaire and later summarized its findings. Read more: Spring/Summer 2000, Issue #38: An Interview with Hermann Koepkeĭownload the article: Questionnaire Response Voith’s factory and so it happened that Hermann was able to attend the Waldorf School. He had six daughters to educate and wanted them to have Waldorf schooling. Voith, a manufacturer, started a Waldorf school in Heidenheim.
He was born in 1937 and grew up in Heidenheim, Germany, near Stuttgart. On first meeting him, one is struck by his kind, steady gaze and can imagine the sustenance and strength so many children have received as they shook hands with him each morning. Hermann Koepke has been a Waldorf teacher for thirty-five years. We hope his book on first grade readiness will appear in English soon, and in this article Jane gives some indications of its content as well as the life of this dedicated teacher.) He has written several books about different stages of child development. She recently spent several months in South Africa where she met Hermann Koepke who was on a visit there. (Jane Johannson has been a Waldorf kindergarten teacher and class teacher in California and Michigan. Read more: Spring/Summer 2000, Issue #38: Notes on Three Lectures by Felicitas Vogtĭownload the article: An Interview with Hermann Koepke The teacher asks: “What is the human being?” This poem is the girl’s response.
#Dear sun dear earth free#
Her class teacher has given her heart to support her students, and there being no tests, the child is free to be a human being. This girl, neglected and unable to follow the goals of a normal public school, is in the tenth grade of a special needs school. The notes were taken by Kate Gage and Sandi Chamberlin of Acorn Hill Waldorf Nursery/Kindergarten in Silver Spring, MD.Īt the beginning of each of the talks I will share a poem written by Kristina, a sixteen-year-old German girl. She offered three talks at the East Coast Kindergarten Conference in February 11 – 13, 2000 and reviewed these notes of her talks.
At present she is director of the Verein für Anthroposophisches Heilwesen, an anthroposophical organization for patients’ rights. She travels throughout the world inspiring parents and teachers to develop a deeper understanding of children and youth and to find new depths of compassion in serving them. Read more: Spring/Summer 2000, Issue #38: Letter from the Co-Editorsĭownload the article: Notes on Three Lectures by Felicitas Vogtįelicitas Vogt is a former Waldorf school class teacher who has taken a deep interest in the problems of students drawn to drug use. We welcome Steve to this work and look forward to future issues of Gateways under his able leadership. His lantern story sheds yet another light on his creativity and love for stories and festivals. In this issue Steve describes the path of a Waldorf teacher, and his article on small groups describes his work with the children. Steve is well-known to kindergarten teachers on the West Coast and to many others nation-wide through the articles and stories he has contributed to Gateways. In this issue he has served as co-editor. We are pleased to announce that Stephen Spitalny, kindergarten teacher at the Santa Cruz Waldorf School, has agreed to take on this role. Susan Howard and I then co-edited a few issues while we sought a new editor.
Gateways readers will recall that a few years ago we announced a new editor, Nicola Tarshis, who unfortunately became ill and could not continue the work.
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