Sunday evening, June 23 – Friday afternoon, June 28
Taught remotely in real time, this course offers you an invaluable opportunity to focus entirely on your upcoming third grade school year in five days brimming with presentations, discussions, and practical activities.
Under the guidance of an experienced class teacher, you’ll discover ways to enliven your teaching and how to approach the blocks so that they may meet the third grader in a deep and meaningful way. With the insights of anthroposophy, gleaned through a discussion of child development focusing specifically on your class’s age group, you will get to know the third grade child in depth as they as they experience the nine-year change.
Along with time and space to consider and hone your skills in such practical matters as main lesson books, block planning, projects and activities, and classroom management, your course will include such key topics for third graders—and their teachers—as:
- Multicultural approaches to the creation stories and the role of Old Testament stories in the third grade curriculum
- Topics in language arts, reading groups, and class plays
- Topics in math
- Third grade approach to science and gardening
- Third grade approach to social studies, class trips and community service
- Third grade morning circle
- Third grade assessment
- Parent work and colleagueship
These subjects will be supported by explorations in art and music, giving you practical tools to take into your school year. In addition, you’ll gain many valuable opportunities for building connections among a community of parallel colleagues from across the country to carry with you throughout your teaching. And participation in an anthroposophical study undertaken in common with all Grades participants will help enable you to build bridges between colleagues and parents once you return to your school.
Grade-specific resource materials useful for your year, including poems, songs, stories, and main lesson book ideas, will be provided to you electronically.
NOTE: This course is taught with the expectation that you have a foundational background in Waldorf education.
Cost: $615. Discounts available
For information, contact: Barbara Vitale at info@sunbridge.edu / 845-425-0055 x20
