Foundation 2 : Assignment Week 02 (06 & 07 AUGUST 2022) by MWEP Course

Z-MYS-Audrey Chow

2022-08-06 07:04:57 UTC

What matters is that love of the child lies at the root of all our education endeavours, and that all teachings be done out of an inner living experience.”

KW - Xin Yi

mwepcontact — 2022-08-06 07:40:07 UTC

1. Ask at least one question to yourself (chapter 4)
How should I connect with my spiritual side?

2. Idea or sentence which touch me the most in chapter 4.
Teachers are thoroughly grounded in an understanding of the whole human being, their knowledge of anthroposophy fills not only their intellect, with its capacity to systematize, but embraces the whole human being who also feels and wills.

3. Mark 2 key sentences
i)Anthroposophical knowledge creates in our teachers the forces of will to do all that they can for growing children in accordance with the demands of each child’s organization. (page 101)

ii)The spiritual is imperceptible to outer senses and if we take the so-called visual instruction method too far, we lead children into believing in only what is sense perceptible—that is, into materialism.

(page 110)

2022-08-06 07:54:32 UTC

Reading Guides:

1. Ask at least one question to yourself (personal question) that is related to the chapter. [self-reflection]
How will intellectual enlightened people in particular have lost the inner experience of living spirit?

2. An idea or a sentence in the chapter that touches you most.
Lights can be shed upon everything (even the most elementary things) with comprehensive knowledge of life (including children's inner nature, inherent natures, and evolving nature)

3. Mark 2 key sentences.
I speak to the child out of a sacred conviction, I touch the child's innermost being in an imponderable way. I call forth in the child a living feeling, a living concept.

The real struggle for knowledge only begins at this point (where natural science is offering), that it leads to a living experience of the spiritual world.

Group Discussion: What does "Education Child" suggests about the education of child during 7-14 years old?

2022-08-06 09:29:16 UTC

*Lessons should have pictorial connection with the subject – link to the child soul on what they learn
*Lessons linked to middle senses: smell, task, sight and warmth
*This age group is a time to foster good habits, character and memory, done through authority.
*They should be surrounded by people they can count on and trust - for security
*They need to be told stories (told, not read to) of great people (historical models) so that they will find the characters that they can admire in the stories, to be taught parables, not moral rules. Therefore we appeal to the imagination and intellect. Stories to be told in right atmosphere will allow children to create the story images in their imagination.
*They must be protected from forming conclusions, pragmatic judgement and critical thinking activities
*Activities for this group: gymnastics and other rhythmic activities, artistic activities, lively, high and moving pictures. Rhythmic activity is important to children at this age. Repeating activities to build their memory.

What does Steiner suggest in our approach to teaching children between 7-14?

mwepcontact — 2022-08-06 13:08:07 UTC

-developed through pictures and parables

-through the pictures and stories of great men and women, taken from history and other sources

-a correspondingly deep study of the secrets and beauties of nature is also important for the proper formation of the world of feeling

-the cultivation of the sense of beauty and the awakening of the artistic feeling

-the musical element “must bring to the etheric body the rhythm that will then enable it to sense in everything the rhythm otherwise concealed. Children who are denied the blessing of having their musical sense cultivated during these years will be the poorer because of it for rest of their lives.”

– the moral sense of children is being formed by the pictures of life placed before them, through the authorities they naturally look up

KW Gabby

2022-08-06 13:57:24 UTC

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?
Only when we play we are fully human, and we play only when we are human in the truest sense of the word. pg 122

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?
How ordinary life essentially chains us into a kind of slavery, how the average person, forced to live under the yoke of necessity, suffers under the burden of outer life. pg123
How to change the misconception of life? What to prioritize in life?

3) Which part you do not understand?
pg118 to 119
Point 1 : Between the ninth and tenth years, children really become conscious of the difference between their inner selves and their surrounding.

Point 2 : "if we miss this significant moment, we will create an inner barrenness of soul or spiritual aridity in later life and attitude of ever lasting doubt and inner dissatisfaction"?

Q1. May I know how these 2 points relate to each other?

Q2. If we missed it, what are the help for these damages?

Chapter 4 - KLSE Celene

2022-08-06 14:19:15 UTC

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?

We must realised that, when we stand before a child who is an imitator, we must be mindful even of our thoughts.

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

Did I let my children experience a natural sense of authority as a teacher in the right way?

3) Which part you do not understand?

"Something truly profound is taking place in a child’s mind and soul at this time—a little earlier in the case of some children, a little later in others. Something is happening— fundamental changes are occurring—in the depths of their young souls; namely, they are learning to distinguish their inner selves from the outer world in a feeling way, but not yet by means of concepts. Therefore if teachers are aware of the right moment, and can find the appropriate words, they can—acting as the situation demands—do something of lasting value and importance for the whole life of these children aged between nine and ten."

Q: How do I know the right moment and what kind of appropriate words this paragraph is trying to point out?

Z-MYS Samantha Choong

samchoong — 2022-08-06 15:53:31 UTC

On Waldorf Education and Anthroposophy, chapter 4

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?

“so, what matters is that love of the child lies at the root of all of our educational endeavors, and that all teaching be done out of an inner, living experience.”

“If I speak to the child out of a sacred conviction, I touch the child’s innermost being in an imponderable way.”

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

Am I able to adapt to my child’s ever evolving nature?

3) Which part you do not understand?

(From pp 125-126)

Our intellect depends on memory, but living

processes do not need memory—not even on the lower levels of our existence. Spiritual substance likewise must be taken up in a living way and an educational method based on anthroposophy must work out of this living process.

Could you kindly elaborate on the spiritual substances and the ways in which they may be taken up in a living way?

Z-MYS-LIM CHEW KIOW

2022-08-06 22:55:12 UTC

1. Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy - Lecture 4 (reading post-w1)

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?
Anthroposophical knowledge of human beings creates a deep
reverence for what the divine world has sent down to earth and
that inner attitude of reverence is the characteristic feature of
Waldorf teachers as they enter their classrooms every morning.
From the daily revelations of this mysterious spirit and soul
existence, they discover what they as teachers must do with
their children.

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?
Every human being is a sacred being. How do you determine the extent of your involvement in your child's destiny as a teacher? What is the right thing to get involved in it and what is not the right thing to intervene in it?

3) Which part you do not understand?
We learn to rec-organize that, independent of the inherited traits, something of
a supersensible spirit and soul nature enters. Without teaching
it as a dogma—and I must emphasize this repeatedly—this
perspective nevertheless becomes a means of orientation for
the teacher—something that serves to guide a teacher’s obser-
vations of children even before they enter school.

Z-MYS Soo May Shin - lecture 4

2022-08-07 01:31:15 UTC

1. Sentence that touches you most

Anthroposophical knowledge of human beings creates a deep reverence for what the divine world has sent down to earth and that inner attitude of reverence is the characteristic feature of Waldorf teachers as they enter their classrooms every morning. From the daily revelations of this mysterious spirit and soul existence, they discover what they as teachers must do with their children.

2. Questions that you find within yourself

The ideals are very lively and beautiful, I longed to be in the ideals. But for the ideals to become reality, it involves a lot of self struggles to slowly drop those old habits/conceptions that are blocking our way. What can we do to gradually lessen the gap between ideals and our current self?

3. Two key sentences

‘ It is a characteristic feature of anthroposophical spiritual science that it can adapt itself to any outer conditions, for it wants to be able to work under all conditions of life.’

‘what matters is that love of the child lies at the root of all of our educational endeavors, and that all teaching be done out of an inner, living experience. ‘

KLSE - Vivien Tan

2022-08-07 03:11:28 UTC

Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy - Lecture 4 (reading post-w1)

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?
"something from one's earliest years lives on in one's soul"

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

"Our educational principles and methods must not be tied up in fixed formulae. Rather, they must become a kind of refined,
practical instinct for action in those who educate from a living knowledge of human beings. Teachers will then find the right
way of dealing with children rather than merely artificially grafting something onto the souls in their care. This is not to
deny what has been promulgated by the great pedagogues of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. On the contrary, it is actually applying it in the right way."

I understand that the above is experienced and developed with time and experience. What about teachers who are not main lesson teachers? They would have contact time and opportunity to observe the children - less opportunity to individually connect.

3) Which part you do not understand?

So far, I understand the words which I read, some terms I have to research (google)on, but as a whole of how to adopt the idea, I feel I haven’t grasp.

Z-MYS Samantha Choong Form Drawing

samchoong — 2022-08-07 03:11:42 UTC

Z-MYR Samantha Choong Form Drawing

samchoong — 2022-08-07 03:16:52 UTC

KLSE - Shareen Herbert

2022-08-07 03:42:21 UTC

Lecture 4
1) What is the sentence that touches you most?

P 111 - The most important force in education, between 7 and puberty lies in the pupil’s belief that the teacher as an authority, knows what is right and does what is right. This must sink down into the child

P121 -- …`Only teachers whose natural authority awakens the belief that what they say and do is the right thing, and who in the eyes of the child become representatives of the world, will prepare their pupils to grow into really living human beings when later on they enter life.

P 116 – It is this How, this individual treatment of each child even within a larger class, that matters. It is possible to achieve it.

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

`Only when we play we are fully human, and we play only when we are human in the truest sense of the word' -- Schiller -- P122
I also read that play reveals its greatest importance for the human biography and self-directed play is a practice for and foreshadowing of taking responsibility for one's own life.

So my question was that how much should a teacher involve/intervene in self-directed play, and if so, is it still considered `self'directed' play and what are the boundaries for a teacher to play with their pupils?
* This question was addressed by Ursula in Day 2 session, with deepest appreciation.

Siew Ying Wen - Lecture 4

2022-08-07 03:44:32 UTC

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?

“Consider well the what, but consider more the how.”

“When we stand before a child who is an imitator, we must be mindful even of our thoughts. Not only our actions but our thoughts too must be of a kind that a child can safely imitate.“

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

Based on this sentence,

“Consider well the what, but consider more the how.”

How can I better prepare myself to execute the “how”?

3) Which part you do not understand?

We learn how a child’s inner relationship to the vowel element is connected with a warming glow in the feeling life, whereas the consonantal element— whatever a child experiences through consonants—is closely linked to the movements of the will.

How does consonant is linked to the movement of will?

PL - fui koon

Pureland — 2022-08-07 04:28:51 UTC

1. what is the sentence that touches you most?

If students do not develop on the basis of this belief in the authority of the teacher, they will be unable, when older, to enter social life in a wholesome manner.

If we train children to make their own judgements too early, we expose them to forces of death instead of giving them forces of life.

2. Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

Did I train children to make their own judgements?

Do I carry the "authentic authority"?

3. Which part you do not understand?

Page 108 - we will assume that they developed within the child itself.

Page 114 - there is spirit in all matter will not proceed from a feeling of being far more clever than the child

KW-Lai Han

evilchai — 2022-08-07 04:59:40 UTC

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?

- in raising a child to become an imitator in the right way, we are helping it become

inwardly warm and rich in feelings

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

- 以前小时候没有对的模仿者，如何找回或是补救我们所缺少的。

Z-MYS YiFan

2022-08-07 05:00:33 UTC

1. What is the sentence that touches you most?

“If we train children to make their own judgments too early, we expose them to forces of death instead of giving them forces of life. Only teachers whose natural authority awakens the belief that what they say and do is the right thing, and who in the eyes of the child become representatives of the world, will prepare their pupils to grow into really living human beings when, later on, they enter life. Such teachers prepare their pupils not by controlling their intellect or their capacity to form judgments but by setting the right example as living human beings. Life can evolve only with life. We make our students into proper citizens of the world by presenting the world to them in a human being—the teacher—not through abstract intellectual concepts.”

2. Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

How do I implement this fundamental into practical everyday education?

3. Which part you do not understand?

I) what is the relationship of language sounds (vowel & consonant element) and child’s inmost feeling?

II)
“When such a concept (authority) emerges in the soul and is understood with the mature understanding of several decades later, this becomes an animating principle that calls up an indefinable feeling that need not be brought to full consciousness: something from one’s earliest years lives on in one’s soul. It is in this sense that we must be able to follow the forces of growth in nature.”

Q: How does authority influence the soul years later?

Z- MYS- Lee Mei Fuen

2022-08-07 05:19:14 UTC

*1. Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy - Lecture 4 (reading post-w1)*
1) What is the sentence that touches you most?

Goethe - consider well the what, but consider more the how. Pg 133

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

How does one try not to apply what they go through or what they have been taught in their schooling years ( in a main stream school) to the children studying in a waldorf school? I.e a waldorf teacher was in mainstream school during their schooling years but now teaching in a waldorf school and uses the reward system i.e… tell the children if you do ABC, you get XyZ…if you don’t, you get nothing at all.

3) Which part you do not understand?
Pg 137( last para) -139 respect for authority, respect for older people. What and how to approach this topic to the children 7-14yo?

PGW- Khaw Siew Wei

berylkhaw — 2022-08-07 05:21:35 UTC

*Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy - Lecture 4

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?
For waldorf teachers are fully convinced that what they meet in their children, week by week, year by years, is the outer manisfectation of divine and spiritual beings who have come down to earth from a purely soul and spiritual existence in order to evolve in a physical body on earth between birth and death.

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?
现实和理想总是有差距。还是需要时时保持觉知和回到当下的力量。

3) Which part you do not understand?

PL-Chen Wei Li

2022-08-07 05:28:03 UTC

PL - Cadence

2022-08-07 05:43:10 UTC

Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy - Lecture 4
1) What is the sentence that touches you most?
Life can evolve only with life

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?
As I read through the lecture, I recall my high school textbook that talked about how great philosophers like Socrates, Confucius, Buddha etc became one of the greatest teachers in human history. Whilst education in Waldorf also emphasises on teachers being the life role model to children instead of merely preaching on knowledge, I doubt myself have the qualities to become a teacher. In other words, do I need to become a saint before I become teacher?

3) Which part do you not understand?
No

Chee Foong Kim

2022-08-07 05:56:27 UTC

1. Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy - Lecture 4 (reading post-w1)
1) What is the sentence that touches you most?
Consider well the What, but consider more of the how. What matters is the right how. Ones have to find ways and means of implementing the ideas into practical life in the right way.

PL Eevonne Tan Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy Chapter 4

taneevonne — 2022-08-07 05:56:47 UTC

1) Sentence that touches me the most
Consider well the what, but consider more the how.
What matters is that love of the child lies at the root of all of our educational endeavours and that all teaching be done out of inner, living experience.

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?
Do I have all the qualities which Steiner mentioned in the lecture and deliver as a Waldorf teacher to the children?

3) Which part you do not understand?
If we train children to make their own judgement too early, we expose them to forces of death instead of giving them forces of life.
Why is it so? How does early judgement affect forces of death?

PL Eevonne Tan Form Drawing

taneevonne — 2022-08-07 05:57:40 UTC

KLSE-Lalida

2022-08-07 06:03:12 UTC

Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy - Lecture 4

1. What is the sentence that touches you most?

Because teachers are thoroughly

grounded in an understanding of the whole human being, their knowledge of anthroposophy fills not only their intellect, with its capacity to systematize, but embraces the whole human being who also feels and wills.

2. Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

What if I am still learning about anthroposophy and not yet able to truly understand all of it yet, how do I best teach the children?

3. Which part you do not understand?

The lecture was mainly discussed about how to educate the children from the school age onwards. But how do we teach the children that did not started their learning journey with Waldorf practice and switched in later years so some fundamental learnings were not instill in them?

TX-Patricia

2022-08-07 06:07:55 UTC

What is the sentence that touched you most?
The expression “a nervous child” is extremely ambiguous. Thus, it is impossible to give definite directives.

I was shocked when i read this.
I didnt expect that.
I thought its a good word to use. if i can define or address his nervous feeling, i thought i might help him to express out.

So many ' i thoght',
End up all these thoughts are not useful.

What should i do or say if my child or student is nervous?

PGW - Hong Jun Yi Individual task: Reading_Read Anthroposophy Lecture 4 and answer the following questions

2022-08-07 06:23:58 UTC

1. What is the sentence that touches you the most?
"The educational life of our times tends to favor a certain intellectualism. "

2. Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?
How can we balance between me (as a teacher or as a parent), the intellectual and materialistic world, and the children? As a mediator of the children and the world, it seems very hard to come to a balance in terms of time taking and the paces are radically different.

3. Which part do you not understand?
No.

Z-MYS-Audrey Chow

2022-08-07 06:24:26 UTC

PL-Chen Wei Li

2022-08-07 06:31:43 UTC

~Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy - Lecture 4

1. What is the sentence that touches you most?

The point is not to formulate abstract principles but to be able to apply them in a living way, with inner soul warmth. (P133)

2. Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

-Apply in a living way is not easy for me. Need to more conscious.
-I feel like I have make my children learn how to judge. How can I remedy this? Is it possible to remedy?

3. Which part you do not understand?
With every vowel sound, we speak directly to a child’s feeling life and we work directly on the child’s will when we speak to a child consonants sound.

I haven't been able to experience or imagine this part.

PL - Cadence

2022-08-07 06:37:55 UTC

PGW - Hong Jun Yi: Form Drawing

2022-08-07 06:47:50 UTC

Task: Prepare a tiny opening speech for parents-teacher meeting using the quotes

2022-08-07 08:02:11 UTC

Good day parents, love of the child lies at the root of all of our educational endeavours, and that all teaching to be done out of an inner, living experience.

Waldorf is a living education that respects the 3 folds nature of the child – will, feeling and thinking, it views the child as a whole. That’s how we educate our children here in Waldorf.

You’ll see here in waldorf, children delight in being allowed to live in the moment, they are free to explore nature and to go where their sense of wonder and imagination take them. Waldorf education takes the point of view that childhood is something to be savoured, truly free to develop according to their own natural rhythms, Waldorf-educated children enjoy full and rich childhoods, gaining the experiences of wills, feeling and intellectual thinking and where their soul and spirituality are being nourished for them to become healthy and self-actualized individuals.

Above all, the love of the children by our educators here in Waldorf is the main drive of our schools to bring the children a wholesome education.

"After the speech we will walk through the parents with the circle time and some activities like frog jumping, crocodile walking as we would have done with the children to let the parents feel what the children are doing and feeling when they are doing the activities"

Group Task: Prepare an opening speech for PTM using quotes

2022-08-07 08:02:54 UTC

Good morning, we appreciate that you've taken your time to be here with us today. We understand that this is your first parent-teacher meeting after enrolling your child to a Waldorf school. Rest assure what we do in this school will not just benefit your child but also you as parents.

I would like to start our meeting by saying that we understand how stressful it must be as a parent to become a good role model to their children, from the way you talk, the language you uses to the way you walk. It needs to be a certain manner for your child to see the good impressions that you're trying to show to them. Kudos to you for your efforts!

Your child had grown much compare from the first week he was with us 4 months ago. He had been actively participating in class and also outside of class especially during playtime. Although sometimes he just want to be outside and play, however, he was able to come back to class willingly once he knows it’s class time. This shows that he is more capable of making his own decisions. He is also more outspoken with his friends not just from the same grades but he also mingles well with other grades as well.

We also notice that he is being very observant not just towards his friends or teachers but to his surroundings as well. This can be towards the sound of a bird, the smell that's coming out of the kitchen or a growing flower. Rest assure that this is something good as he is slowly opening up himself and trying to find his own understanding to what he sees the world through his eyes.

I remember when he told me something interesting about how he could notice a wilting flower as he was walking to class. He mentioned that for the pass 2 weeks he had been watering the flower twice, in the morning when he was walking to class and when he was walking to the car. He notice that by watering the plant everyday, he could see change to the flower.

Because of this experience, we also notice he has been very positively thinking especially when it comes to making mistakes in school. He knows his ways of handling the problem (with friends and teachers) and comes out with solutions to his problems. In a Waldorf school, we see that "life can evolve with life". Sometimes the solutions that we're trying to find isn't what we have been thinking. Just like your son, he evolve the solutions to his problems through his surrounding be it with friends, teachers, parents or other living things. We can conclude that your son is slowing evolving to the person that he wants to become and that also shaped the way he thinks and see's life around him.

Parents - Teachers Meeting

2022-08-07 08:03:06 UTC

Consider well the what, but consider more the how.

Group discussion - What does "Education of Child" suggests about the education of child during 7-14?

2022-08-07 08:03:45 UTC

• To cultivate good habits – be repeat consistently until it is 'part of them'

• Show a good example (be a role model) be it your behaviour, speech and even in thought.

• Tell it as it is - do not interpret

• Appreciation of nature
• To tell stories with good moral
• Includes the development of willing, feeling, and thinking, physical, soul, and spirit, and all shall be balanced
• It should be fit to the child's needs and response, educator just be the mediator but not to interrupt
• Do not input a fix idea to children
• To be gentle and firm so that a relationship of authority developed between educator and children
• To work artistically with colours, drawing and painting
• To teach in the form of parable, not static concepts
• To observe and have empathy during key moments in the lives of children
• The lifeless world such as the study of minerals and physics should be approached only after children have been fully immersed in the living world

Group :Opening Speech at parents' meeting

2022-08-07 08:06:56 UTC

Consider well the What, but consider more the How.
What matters is that love of the child lies at the root of all our educational endeavors and that all teaching be done out of inner living experience.
Therefore in Waldorf education, the focus is on observing the development of willing, feeling and thinking forces.
Now dear parents,
How do you bring these experiences into your Home?... and in your Life?

*** discussion in the group***
we put ourselves in parents' shoes and thought about what you want to hear and feel being welcomed at the beginning of the meeting. at the same time, we wanted to give an opportunity for parents to reflect the quote on themselves. so, ending with a question.

Prepare a tiny opening speech/opening thought for a parents-teacher meeting using the quotation shared before.

2022-08-07 08:07:57 UTC

Quote for parents
All education is really self- education.
As teacher we are only part of the surroundings of the child which is self educating itself.
We must be the best possible surrounding so that the child can educate itself in tune with its destiny.

Discussion with parents
1. What do you understand about self- education?
2. What is our role in this surrounding that leads to child's self education?
3. How do you see yourself as part of the environment?

Group 11: Quote for PTM

2022-08-07 08:08:13 UTC

We must realized that,

when we stand before a child

who is an imitator,

we must be mindful

even of our thoughts.

As mentioned by RS, the young children learning by way of imitation. They received whatever with all their senses both when they were awake and sometimes even when they were asleep. Therefore, we as adults in their life must aware of this crucial information and act in our best to be a good model of a human being that we wish the children will grow up to be. It is impossible to just tell them what they should do and wish they will do it. Only when we show them on how things should be done then they will slowly pick up the good habits and grow well and healthy.

Z-MYS- Yifan Form Drawing

2022-08-07 08:29:37 UTC

KLSE-Lalida

2022-08-07 08:35:40 UTC

KLSE Ashley lee

2022-08-07 09:09:03 UTC

Opening Speech at Parent's meeting

2022-08-07 09:20:22 UTC

Good morning, dear Grade 1 parents. On behalf of the school, I take this opportunity to welcome you to our parents – teacher meeting for the year. Before we begin, let me share you this.

*stories of The Young Crab and His Mother*

https://www.bedtimeshortstories.com/the-young-crab-and-his-mother

End the story with quote:

We must realized that, when we stand before a child who is an imitator, we must be mindful
even of our thoughts.

Have you ever thought that the behavior of your children is the product of your action and your thought?

Then we are going to discuss this so parents can share their experience. Also give the parents an experience on Waldorf story telling.

Then discuss any other business new parents has.

Z-MYS-LIM CHEW KIOW

2022-08-07 09:40:16 UTC

prepare a tiny opening speech/opening thought for a parents-teacher meeting using the quotation shared before

2022-08-07 10:08:48 UTC

Good afternoon parents, thank you for taking time out to meet with us today to discuss about your wonderful child.
We’ve had him present at school for almost 3 months and hence this has given us sometime to get to know your child.
What we can say about him is that he has lovely smiling eyes that would greet us each morning, he has strong steady limbs.
He is always the first person to run out into the garden during outdoor time and he is indeed in his element when he is in an open space.
He is very sociable and he participates in activities that the other children are playing.
And so it is wonderful to see him trying to find his way in school.
It is also great to see what his is trying to do.
As important as it is to “consider well the what it is also more important to consider the how”.
And here we find that maybe, (name) finds a little challenge in expressing his needs, wants and desire to make friends.
We must therefore as teachers, guidance and parents work together to help (name) to manifest his actions in a better way.

Z-MYS-Audrey Chow

2022-08-07 10:29:33 UTC

KLSE - Vivien Tan

2022-08-07 14:19:27 UTC

KLSE - Vivien Tan (pencil shading)

2022-08-08 02:56:16 UTC

KLSE - Vivien Tan (pencil shading)

2022-08-08 02:56:38 UTC

KLSE-Lalida

2022-08-08 03:30:00 UTC

When drawing with outward-in direction, I had to keep reminding myself to breath. While inward-out motion made was very enjoyable and freeing. I guessed it had to do with working into oneself VS out into the world. It is always harder to understand ourselves than flowing into the outside world.

Patricia lim

2022-08-08 03:51:37 UTC

Patricia lim

2022-08-08 03:52:50 UTC

I find that I couldn’t stop adding lines to the green ball (from inside out)

KLSE_Dayang (FORM DRAWING)

2022-08-08 05:03:09 UTC

Form Drawing - KLSE Celene

2022-08-08 05:31:04 UTC

Circles sketching - KLSE Celene

2022-08-08 05:32:56 UTC

Z-MYS-Ayaka Oda

2022-08-08 12:58:52 UTC

Z-MYS-Ayaka Oda

2022-08-08 14:50:34 UTC

Slowly...
With patience....
We are getting there...

Circle Sketching ( Z -MYS Lim Chiou Min)

2022-08-09 00:34:22 UTC

Z-MYS-LEE LI HWEY

2022-08-09 07:11:23 UTC

Prepare a tiny opening speech/opening thought for a parents-teacher meeting using the quotation shared before
"We must realized that, when we stand before a child who is an imitator, we must be mindful even of our thoughts."

Lets go in depth with this quote while looking at some of these real life scenarios.

For starters, have you ever noticed that when you're in a bad mood, or having an awful day; when you were asked to carry a baby, and the baby will cry? It's the other way round when you're in a serene and calm mood.

The second example is, have you ever notices a child will behaves the same way as the person he/she spends most of the time with? It can either be the movements, gestures, choices of word, intonation and ways of approaching a certain situation.

And the last example, have you notices when two/more adult is discussing about a child, that particular child sort of somehow know the adults are talking about them and starting to act out to distract the adult from discussing the matter further?

All of these examples have connection to the quote mentioned previously. Which is a great awareness towards everyone that plays important roles to growing up a child, to always be mindful towards the attitude, words and thoughts portrayed to the child.

Taking into first half of the quote, imitation skills from a child is implemented into Steiner ways of teaching especially towards language or second language subjects. Repetitive rhythm will create safe space for the children to learn as they already know the class' sequence and will be less pressured.

For second part of the quote, as mentioned previously, a great reminder to everyone that to have a whole developed child, people around the child plays important role. In order to achieve a whole hearted child, one must start from us as adult, be it with our physical appearance, nor as little as our thoughts.

The child had no other role model to follow except for the person they spent most of their time with. Yet, again.. always be mindful even with our thoughts.

Z-MYS-LIM CHEW KIOW

2022-08-10 02:52:16 UTC

Z-MYS-Yifan inward circle

2022-08-10 08:26:28 UTC

I’m not sure if I used the right technique. Instead of doubting, I just follow my heart and I enjoy the rhythm of the strokes very much.

Z-MYS-Yifan outward circle

2022-08-10 08:26:58 UTC

TX- Patricia

2022-08-10 14:30:31 UTC

Z-MYS Samantha Choong

samchoong — 2022-08-10 16:44:07 UTC

Initially, thought I would have much preferred drawing from the inside-out; the freedom of growing and spreading outwards in all directions. But drawing from outside-in gave me a sense of trust, certainty and peace. I thought i would have ended up feeling restricted, instead it helped me go inward. That feeling of coming back to self was very gratifying for me.

KLSE_Dayang

2022-08-11 04:03:36 UTC

KLSE_Dayang

2022-08-11 04:06:23 UTC

Z-MYS- Ashley Tan

2022-08-11 04:57:23 UTC

Lecture 4 (Waldorf Edu & Anthroposophy)

Q1. What is the sentence that touches you most?

(pg114, paragraph 2) ..What matters is that LOVE of the child lies at the root of all of our educational endeavors, and that all teaching be done out of an inner, living experience.

Q2. Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

How do I cultivate my love for all children that come from different backgrounds and have different personalities. How do I have the equal love for each of them like the way I have for my own.

Q3. Which part do you not understand?

Life can only evolve with life

Z-Chia Yee

2022-08-11 05:21:32 UTC

I dont feel very confident with these 2 sketches as i felt i wont be able to do it. I am
not used to the new habit of holding the pencil to sketch, but as i moved along, and slowly seeing a ball coming into the picture, i rather enjoyed it. I loved the outside in more than sketching the inside out. I guessed it shows in my personality that i am quite an introvert and i like to keep things going deeper inside. I am
more comfortable that way. You can see in my inside out i was getting impatient at the end and my strokes got more and more hostile. Haha

Cai Ying

2022-08-11 05:28:31 UTC

Cai Ying

2022-08-11 05:29:23 UTC

Z-Chia Yee

2022-08-11 05:39:06 UTC

Form drawing (Z-MYS Agnesiah)

2022-08-11 08:38:15 UTC

...drawing my breathing...

Z-MYS-LIM CHEW KIOW

2022-08-11 09:39:50 UTC

Chapter 5
1) What is the sentence that touches you most?
Regarding any educational activity, there will always be the

question in mind, what will be the consequences in later life of

what I am doing now with the child? Such an attitude will

stimulate an organic, that is, a living pedagogy.

A very special inner feeling is engendered when teachers believe that their task is to assist in

charming from the child what divine and spiritual beings have

sent down from the spiritual world. This task is indeed something that can be brought to new life through anthroposophy.

Between the change of teeth and puberty, a child should

willingly accept whatever the teacher says on the strength of

such a natural sense of authority.

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?
How to approach to anthroposophical insight and observation in praticing of teaching?

Z-MYS- Michelle Lee

2022-08-11 12:03:45 UTC

Z-MYS-Michelle Lee

2022-08-11 12:15:58 UTC

Lecture 4
Question 1:
we cannot yet say that life is ruled by what is right. But, if we offer our youth something true, they will feel attracted to it. If we no longer believe this to be the case, if all that we do is moan and groan about youth’s failings, then we shall achieve nothing at all.

Question 2:
Goethe’s dictum, “Consider well the what, but consider more the how.” You will find excellent expositions of the what—with regard to foundations and principles—in theoretical texts on education. Even quite idealistic thoughts are sometimes expressed there, but all of this represents only the what. The point is not to formulate abstract principles but to be able to apply them in a living way, with inner soul warmth.

Question 3:
If we train children to make their own judgments too early, we expose them to forces of death instead of giving them forces of life.

Z-MYS-Michelle Lee

2022-08-11 12:52:21 UTC

PL Eevonne Tan

taneevonne — 2022-08-11 13:57:49 UTC

This exercise needs a lot of inner will force. Having said that, it helps my mind to think nothing, almost at a calm state and just focus on every stroke while I'm doing it.
While doing the outside in circle, it needs more of my focus and will as I'm trying to make the circle rounder. But, it's hard to change the shape later as it was formerly being shaped in the first round. It restricts possibilities.
In contrast to the inside out, I found it a lot easier to complete. It gives me more freedom and more rooms to shape it. It also allows my feelings to be expressed outwardly.

PL Eevonne Tan

taneevonne — 2022-08-11 14:01:31 UTC

2022-08-11 14:29:33 UTC

Chng Huey Nah,Christina

2022-08-11 14:31:52 UTC

Chng Huey Nah,Christina

2022-08-11 14:32:15 UTC

TX KUI YONG

hbqnddpzgg — 2022-08-11 15:20:40 UTC

It's really not easy to hold the pencil a different way. I prefer the inside out circle exercise

Z-MSY-LIM CHEW KIOW

2022-08-12 03:40:56 UTC

Chapter 6
1) What is the sentence that touches you most?
A growing child can be regarded as a sort of “time-organism,” so that we must always bear in mind that the activities of each succeeding year of a child’s development occur against the background of that child’s entire life. We can therefore plant something like soul spiritual seeds in our children that will bear fruits of inner happiness and security in practical life situations for the rest of their earthly existences.

The growing person finds a certain foothold in life, in childhood through union with the surrounding world and later through the feeling of being.

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?
“What must I bring to a child to liberate his or her life forces? What can I do so that what is within rises to the surface of life?”

Z-MYS-LEE LI HWEY

2022-08-12 05:25:26 UTC

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?
We must realized that, when we stand before a child who is an imitator, we must be mindful even of our thoughts.

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?
Sometimes have to be careful with behavior my own.

3) Which part you do not understand?
No

Z-MYS-LEE LI HWEY

2022-08-12 05:51:08 UTC

Form drawing (Z-MYS Agnesiah)

2022-08-12 08:25:40 UTC

Z-MYS-Mei Fuen

2022-08-12 08:30:59 UTC

Pencil strokes (Z-MYS Agnesiah)

2022-08-12 08:40:47 UTC

Looking into the idea of dogma, fixed formulae, hard principles etc... We are human, we are growing, continuously changing beings. All ideas, thoughts, and feelings that we pour into children must have essence of growth in them. "You taught well when you didn't know at the beginning what you had then learned by the end of the year."

Hoh Siew Choo

2022-08-12 10:30:49 UTC

KLSE-Lalida

2022-08-12 13:59:53 UTC

Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy - Lecture 5&6

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?

For the child, the teacher represents the whole world.

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

Am I being the person that is worth imitating for the children?

3) Which part you do not understand?

In chapter 5 page 168, it said that '..A natural outcome of this direct, tangible relationship between the teacher and the child is the child's awareness of the teacher's own religious feelings and of the way in which the teacher relates to the metaphysical world-all...' and page 170 '...if only subconsciously, that as they look up to the authority of their teachers, their teacher likewise looks up to what no longer is outwardly visible. Then, through the relationship of the teacher to child, a feeling for other people becomes transformed into a religious experience.'

Is it possible to elaborate more on this part? Does it means teacher must have a strong religion believe so that they can help connect the children with their moral sense? What if teacher has different religion with the child or maybe has no religion at all?

Z-MYS-Lee Kar Yng

2022-08-12 15:19:11 UTC

Z-MYS Samantha Choong

samchoong — 2022-08-12 15:27:01 UTC

*1. Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy - Lecture 5 & 6*

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?

“another feeling also lives in the child, often only dimly and vaguely felt. This is the feeling that those who are the objects of such authority must themselves also look up to something higher.”

- pp 168, chapter 5

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

What will be the consequences in later life of what I am doing now with my children?

3) Which part you do not understand?

Z-MYS-Ho Wen Shin

elisehowenshin — 2022-08-12 15:49:17 UTC

Z-MYS-Ho Wen Shin

elisehowenshin — 2022-08-12 15:53:56 UTC

TX Kui Yong

hbqnddpzgg — 2022-08-12 16:07:59 UTC

PGW - Hong Jun Yi Individual task: Sketching on A3 paper

2022-08-12 16:23:37 UTC

Moone

2022-08-12 17:15:15 UTC

Moone

2022-08-12 17:15:40 UTC

Z-MYS-Ho Wen Shin

2022-08-12 18:13:21 UTC

1. Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy -
Lecture 4 (Reading Post-W1)

i) What is the sentence that touches you most?

I touch the child’s innermost being in an imponderable

way. I call forth in the child a living feeling, a living concept. (pg.115)
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ii) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

We must neither underestimate nor overestimate what modern science has to say out of its exclusive interest in the external world. (pg.115)

I am agreeing that we shouldn’t overestimate the view of mainstream science but is it possible we don’t underestimate them if we wish to practice spiritual science. Especially when the modern science rejected the view of spiritual science, how could we not underestimate it?
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iii) Which part you do not understand?

In Waldorf schools, students are encouraged to tackle whole heartedly whatever is to be mastered. They are not to be allowed to do whatever they feel like doing. (pg124)

I don’t understand how it is possible to “not allow” them by just only encourage. Is it possible that is a case, we have already made all the possible effort to “encourage” a student, but they just don’t fell like doing? If it happened, should we ask them simply finish the task or should we just let it pass through.

Z-MYS-Ho Wen Shin

2022-08-12 18:18:43 UTC

2. Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy -
Lecture 5 & 6 (Reading Post-W2)

i) What is the sentence that touches you most?

what was present in the devotional attitude of a praying child resurfaces as a power of blessing, emanating from the words spoken by such a person—especially when he or she addresses children.
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ii) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

Pg. 167: This requires of the teacher the ability to command natural respect, so that a pupil accepts truths coming from the teacher simply because of the child’s loving respect, not on the strength of the child’s own judgments.

As a teacher, to have the ability to command natural respect, we should always deal with the disrespected of inner self, is there a checkpoint to us if the self-consciousness reaches the minimum requirement?
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iii) Which part you do not understand?

What is the meaning of “time organism (pg149,163) “? may I know if this means that only the etheric body could feel the time flows? neither the physical body nor the astral could feel the flows of time?

KLSE - Shareen Herbert

2022-08-12 23:01:31 UTC

Medium: Colour Pencil
This work was redone freehand with crayon -- and reposted below.

KLSE - Shareen Herbert

2022-08-12 23:02:11 UTC

KLSE - Shareen Herbert

2022-08-12 23:02:53 UTC

KLSE - Shareen Herbert

2022-08-12 23:03:37 UTC

Z-MYS-Siew Jiun Hui

2022-08-12 23:37:49 UTC

Z-MYS-Siew Jiun Hui

2022-08-12 23:38:14 UTC

Z-MYS-Siew Jiun Hui

2022-08-12 23:39:25 UTC

Z-MYS-Siew Jiun Hui

2022-08-12 23:39:40 UTC

Chapter 5&6 (Z-MYS Agnesiah)

2022-08-12 23:44:34 UTC

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?
When teachers believe that their task is to assist in charming from the child what divine and spiritual beings have sent down from the spiritual world

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?
How can I make the whole surrounding world as if it issues from a human being's inner self, by being as lively as possible in my descriptions and stories of the surrounding world - with the intention to help a child to liberate his/her life forces, so that what's within rises to the surface of life?

3) Which part you do not understand?
"Music: everything that is brought to a child through music in a sensible and appropriate way will show itself later as initiative"

"Eurythmy: the resting form only makes sense when it begins to move. We could say that the hand at rest owes it's form to the hand in movement and that the movements of the hand/arm must be as they are because of the form of the resting hand"

"Arithmetic: depends entirely on our knowing how to activate the child outwardly through the right kind of geometry and arithmetic during the age when the child is at the stage of authority"

May I have further elaboration on the above?

Z-MYS Soo May Shin

2022-08-13 00:05:50 UTC

Line Sketching ( Z -MYS Lim Chiou Min)

2022-08-13 00:22:56 UTC

Form Drawing ( Z -MYS Lim Chiou Min)

2022-08-13 00:23:54 UTC

KW - Jane Ng

2022-08-13 01:26:04 UTC

kW - Jane Ng

2022-08-13 01:26:46 UTC

PL - Cadence

2022-08-13 02:21:37 UTC

Irene - Form drawing

2022-08-13 02:29:38 UTC

Irene - Inward circle

2022-08-13 02:30:09 UTC

Irene - outward circle

2022-08-13 02:30:38 UTC

Chapter 5&6 (Z-MYS Lim Chiou Min)

2022-08-13 02:54:18 UTC

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?

The essence of Waldorf education is to make education into an art- the art of the right treatment of children, if I may use the expression. A teacher must be an artist, for it is the teacher’s task to deal in the right way with the forces that previously shaped in the child’s organism. Such forces need to be treated artistically- no matter which subject the teacher is to introduce to children entering the Waldorf school.

Pg 164, Chapter 5

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the

lecture?

“We do only what they can safely imitate.”

How can I make the whole surrounding world and myself to be somewhere and someone they can safely imitate ?

3) Which part you do not understand?

Just as, at this stage of development, a child’s organism desires to move through imitation, so likewise is the children naturally inclined to reveal itself through the language of eurythmy. A sense of inner well being depends on the possibility of the child’s expressing itself through this medium.

Page 181, Chapter 6

May I know further on the above?

PL Eevonne Tan Lecture 5 & 6

taneevonne — 2022-08-13 02:55:55 UTC

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?
A very special inner feeling is engendered when teachers believe that their task is to assist in charming from the child what divine and spiritual beings have sent down from the spiritual world.

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read thtough the lecture?

3) Which part you do not understand?
allow the child to experience an echo of his or her writing and the various letters. If we do this , we shall be cultivating a certain love in the child for what surrounds it - a sense of responsibility for its surrounding. (p.177)
How do love and sense of responsibility being cultivated by the way we learn to write?

The more teachers imbue the surrounding world with human qualities, the more they speak about it pictorially, and the more they employ an artistic approach, the better it is for the inner unfolding of their pupils' will nature. (p. 179)
How does it unfold the children's will nature by speaking to them pictorially? I thought it will only unfold their feeling.

KLSE - Shareen Herbert

2022-08-13 03:04:50 UTC

Lecture 5 - Reading for 6&7 Aug
1) What is the sentence that touches you most?

`Rather, it (anthroposophy) aims to guide the fundamental achievements of modern civilization toward a fruitful goal.’

`A very special inner feeling is engendered when teachers believe that their task is to assist in charming from the child what divine and spiritual beings have sent down from the spiritual world. This task is indeed something that can be brought to new life through anthroposophy.'

`Apart from looking after a child’s other physical needs, we must also ensure
that its limbs grow naturally, unconstricted, especially while it is still at the growing stage. Similarly, we must plant into a child’s soul only concepts, ideas, feelings, and will impulses that, because they are not fixed into sharp and final contours, are capable of further development. Rigid concepts would have the effect of fettering a child’s soul life instead of allowing it to evolve freely and flexibly. Only by avoiding rigidity can we hope that what we plant into a child’s heart will emerge during later life in the right way.’

`It is wonderful to see, for example, what happens when someone—perhaps the mother or another—is with the child when it learns to speak the vowels. A quality corresponding to the soul being of the adult who is in the child’s presence flows into the child’s feeling through these vowels. On the other hand, everything that stimulates the child to perform its own movements in relation to the external world—such as finding the right relationship to warmth or coldness—leads to the speaking of consonants.’ ….. But these things must not be grasped with the intellect; they must be absorbed with one’s whole being. If we do this, then a concrete, artistic sense will pervade our observations of the growing child.’

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

What is needed in the on the part of the adult and teacher in order to provide the conditions for the child’s healthy development? How to we ensure that we are not locked up in traditions and culture so that we become too rigid and not able to renew and grow?

3) Which part you do not understand?

a) Anthroposophical research makes it clear that we must speak of human pre-existence, of a soul-spiritual existence before birth.
What does this mean `before birth'?

b)`To appreciate those, one need only draw attention to the contribution of the great educators of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Anyone with education at heart can feel only enthusiasm for their comprehensive ideas and powerful principles.’
I would like to know who are these educators referred to by Steiner?

KLSE Ashley

2022-08-13 03:28:58 UTC

Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy - Lecture 5&6

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?

Pg164 : A teacher must be an artist, for it is the teacher’s

task to deal in the right way with the forces that previously shaped the child’s organism.

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

Am I artsy enough to help in dealing with children? How can i help myself to improve on it?

3) Which part you do not understand?

Z-MYS Soo May Shin lecture 5&6

2022-08-13 03:52:10 UTC

I am again touched by how practical anthroposophy can be, but to practice anthroposophy requires the involvement of our whole being, that is a lot of work to ‘do’ for educator.

“This is a deeply felt premise of the education that is to be based on anthroposophy. With this principle, we try to gain insight into the child’s development, month by month, even week by week, in such intimate ways that we become able to READ THE CURRICULUM AND ALL OUR EDUCATIONAL AIMS DIRECTLY FROM THE NATURE OF THE GROWING CHILD”.

Truly a big aim, but we should strive for it, from where we are now.

“A teacher and educator must not only deal with the business of teaching actual subjects to pupils; she or he must also bear the burden of responsibility for their pupils’ inner happiness and feeling of security right INTO THE LAST YEARS OF THEIR LIVES.”

The time element that etheric body bears, how education works into their life at this age range and how those instilled elements would be transmuted in later life, these are all important eye opener and reminders, on how can we work healthily with children.

2022-08-13 04:17:48 UTC

Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy - Lecture 5 & 6 (reading post-w2)

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?
"The essence of Waldorf education is to make education into an art – the art of the right treatment of children..." (p 164)

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

"...the question of how to form the hearts and the souls of teachers so that they entered their classrooms and greeted their children in the right spirit was considered most important" (p 170)

I can only say that I am evolving with awareness each class teaching but I don't know "if my heart and soul are sufficiently formed". How do you gauge? By how much the children love you?

3) Which part you do not understand?

"I tried to show how a growing child can be regarded as a sort of "time-orgamism" (p 173)

What is "time-orgamism" please give an example thank you.

Siew Ying Wen

2022-08-13 04:27:44 UTC

Siew Ying Wen

2022-08-13 04:28:09 UTC

Z-MYS-Ayaka Oda

2022-08-13 04:31:57 UTC

READING Lecture 5 & 6

1. the sentense that touched me the most.

Imponderable forces are at work here. It is not the words we speak to children that matter, but what we ourselves are. And above all what we are when we are dealing with children.

What will be the consequences in later life of what I am doing now with child?

2. Question you found within yourself

Steiner said, a child naturally needs to look up yo the autority of the teacher and educator.
What if a child meets educators/adults, who is non-waldorf and lecture children in a strict discipline which I totally don't agree,how do I (parents) help a child to balance his sense of authority?

3. Which part you don't understand

the soul-spiritual part of the human being has least connection with the organization of the head.
The head is least the carrier of the prenatal soul-spiritual life that has come down to begin life on earth.

Can you please explain a bit more about the above?

GROUP TASK

2022-08-13 04:36:32 UTC

Prepare a tiny opening speech/opening thought for a parents-teacher meeting using the quotation shared before.

Quote Chosen: Slide No.2 - Something from one's earliest years lives on in one's soul

Good morning dear Parents and a warm welcome to each and every one of you to our beautiful school!

We are delighted and honored to work in cooperation with you in the development of our dear children here today. Each child’s journey is unique. As Steiner educators, we strive to impact their journeys in ways that are both powerful and lifelong. How can we best connect children to their own natural and wondrous abilities? Our commitment is to the full development of human beings through Anthroposophy and through our own lifelong learning that enable us, as teachers, to step into this role together with you.

More important than any knowledge, is what the teachers provide, which is a pathway or method of discovering ideas and ideals; to recognise the development of children in specific stages; that equal importance is a paid to tacit, aesthetic, artistic and thinking knowledge; teaching our dear pupils to live in solidarity; fostering wonder and reverence for life and for the world.

We aim to ensure that our pupils enjoy school and learn in creative, independent and interdependent ways which results in favourable attitudes towards lifelong learning and fostering an environment fertile enough to spark their highest sense of purpose and wonder for the world around them. When we inspire wonder -- it is a gift, and a seed planted in them that will grow into adulthood. We believe that something from one’s earliest years loves on in one’s soul. So dear parents, by all of us joining our hands together, let us plant and nourish the seeds of wonder, joy, love, and gratitude through our teaching and through your support, then we are giving the child a gift for their future and in meeting their destiny.

KLSE Ashley

2022-08-13 04:51:57 UTC

Z-MYS-Siew Jiun Hui

2022-08-13 05:56:25 UTC

Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy - Lecture 4

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?

Life can evolve only with life.
Only when we play are we fully human, and we play only when we are human in the truest sense of the word.

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

Am I able to guide the children on acting only in accordance with their own impulses?

3) Which part you do not understand?

Leng ( Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy - Lecture 5&6 )

lengswoo — 2022-08-13 06:00:58 UTC

What is the sentence that touches you most?
In bringing anthroposophy into the field of education, we do not wish to be dogmatic, The Waldorf school is not meant to be an ideological school. It is meant to be a school where what we can gain through anthroposophy with living inwardness can flow into practical teaching methods and actual teaching skills.

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?
Formative forces during 0-7 comes from outer environment to form the body of children? after 7-14, the forces comes from inside of the children to form outside metal?

3) Which part you do not understand?
A teacher must be an artist, for it is the teacher's task to deal in the right way with the forces that previously shaped the child's organism.

Everything that is brought to a child through music in a sensible and appropriate way will show itself later as initiative.

KW-Lai Han

evilchai — 2022-08-13 06:01:28 UTC

Belinda Chua

belindachua05 — 2022-08-13 06:03:55 UTC

It looks simple, but it really a nice process, I shall practicing more n even bring chalks along to park with kids n draw together in the huge badminton court floor

Belinda Chua

belindachua05 — 2022-08-13 06:05:12 UTC

Belinda Chua

belindachua05 — 2022-08-13 06:08:30 UTC

This drawing process is soo meditative, whenever I come to the inner smaller circle, automatic my hands will run faster, every patterns has their own rhythm even though they are linked n inter-related

KW- Lai Han

2022-08-13 06:10:54 UTC

1）What is the sentence that touches you most?
-Rigid concepts would have

the effect of fettering a child’s soul life instead of allowing it to

evolve freely and flexibly. Only by avoiding rigidity can we

hope that what we plant into a child’s heart will emerge during

later life in the right way

2）not sure Im a good role model for my student or my children

Z- Chia Yee

2022-08-13 06:11:59 UTC

On Waldorf Education and Anthroposophy – Lecture 5 and 6

What is the sentence that touches you the most?

Happy are those children who – before they must find a personal relation to the world by means of individual judgements, will impulses, and feelings -receive the world through someone in whom the world is rightly reflected.

Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

If movements were not sufficient in the Willing child, and inorganic interest penetrated too soon in the Feeling Child, still, will Life sort it out on its own healthily and balanced if other matters were taken care of?

Which part you do not understand?

1) Page 166 – Explain Rubicon, is it a stage where the feelings of everything surrounding the child deepened into the soul? what does it means by at Rubicon stage, the child learns to differentiate its individual self from its surroundings. (Page 178). Any example of separation from surrounding.

2) Page 175 – how about young children – being one with the surrounding? What example of being one with the surrounding?

3) How to differentiate a child who write mechanically and a child who write with painterly quality.

The Fundamentals of Waldorf Education -Chapter 4(Z-MYS Lim Chiou Min)

2022-08-13 06:12:28 UTC

1. Ask at least one question to yourself (personal question) that is related to the chapter.

How do we as the parents prepare ourselves to instil the right thing/ way and prepare the environment for the kids?

2. An idea or a sentence in the chapter that touches you most.

What really matters is how the adults meet the young, how they approach them. From experience - many times confirmed- I can only point out that this whole question of younger generation is often a question of the older generation. As such, it can perhaps be best answered by looking a little less at the younger generation and looking a little more deeply into ourselves.

Pg 137, Chapter 4

3. Mark 2 key sentences.

“Only when we play are we fully human, and we play only when we are human in the truest sense of the world”

Pg 122, Chapter 4

We must learn how to make life worthwhile again, from both the social and individual points of view, not only by introducing more play but by taking up our tasks in a more human way…. We must teach young people to work in the right way. The concept of duty must be brought into school, not by preaching, but in the right and natural way- which can be achieved only through a thorough, well grounded, and correct knowledge of human nature.

Pg 123, Chapter 4

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Jessica Ee

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PL-Chen Wei Li

2022-08-13 06:43:49 UTC

~Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy - Lecture 5 and 6
1. What is the sentence that touches you most?

It is not the words that we speak to children that matter, but what we ourselves are—and above all what we are when we are dealing with our children. (P.169)
we must always bear in mind that the activities of each succeeding year of a child’s development occur against the background of that child’s entire life. We can therefore plant something like soul-spiritual seeds in our children that will bear fruits of inner happiness and security in practical life situations for the rest of thei earthly existences.(P.173)

2. Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

Not enough consciousness. Let old habits dictate my behavior.

3. Which part you do not understand?

The etheric body is primarily a kind of regulatory agency and points to something that belongs, not so much to the human spatial organization, but to something of the nature of a “time organism.”

PL-Chen Wei Li

2022-08-13 07:41:29 UTC

z- mys- mei fuen

2022-08-13 08:17:29 UTC

In out
I am suprise ..

Z-mys- meifuen

2022-08-13 08:19:25 UTC

Leng

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Leng

lengswoo — 2022-08-13 09:08:19 UTC

Leng

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Leng

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Z-mys- mei fuen

2022-08-13 10:05:36 UTC

Lecture 5&6
1) what is the sentence that touches you most?

What will be the consequences in later life of what I am doing now with the child? Such an attitude will stimulate an organic, that is, a living pedagog. (Page 152)

2) is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?
Being conscious, awareness..

3) which part you do not understand?

A) pg 153 last para where it discusses about “ latent heat” and “liberated heat” . Can you please elaborate on this.

b) pg 190 first para with regards to the “ blushing and paling in the human face” - how and what is the connection to sympathies and antipathies?

Lecture 5 & 6 - KLSE Celene

2022-08-13 15:11:42 UTC

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?

| Only by avoiding rigidity can we hope that what we plant into a child’s heart will emerge during later life in the right way

| We can therefore plant something like soulspiritual seeds in our children that will bear fruits of inner happiness and security in practical life situations for the rest of their earthly existence.

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

What will be the consequences in later life of what I am doing now with the child?

3) Which part you do not understand?

Page 180:
"Those movements are transformed into moving air, which in turn becomes the carrier of sound and tone perceived by the ear. But there exist other inner tendencies or inclinations toward movement which proceed no further than the nascent state and yet can be studied by “sensible-supersensible beholding.” It is possible to study what is formed in a human being but never becomes an actual movement, being instead transformed, or metamorphosed, into movement of the larynx and the other speech organs.

What is this paragraph trying to express and what does "sensible- supersensible beholding" means?

PL - Cadence

2022-08-14 00:36:27 UTC

Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy - Lecture 5&6 (reading post-w2)

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?
Pg 169 - it is not the words that we speak to children that matter, but what we ourselves are

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?
N/A

3) Which part you do not understand?
Pg 180 - Rather, eurythmy originate in the perception of tendencies toward movement in the human being that may be observed—if I may borrow Goethe’s expression—with “sensible-supersensible beholding”.

What is “sensible-supersensible beholding”?

Chee Foong Kim

2022-08-14 03:19:29 UTC

Pencil strokes (Z-MYS Agnesiah)

2022-08-14 05:27:22 UTC

Going inwards had surprised myself.. "Lights can be shed upon everything, even the most elementary things"

Chee Foong Kim

2022-08-14 05:49:03 UTC

Z-MYS Soo May Shin

2022-08-15 10:13:16 UTC

Siew Ying Wen - Lecture 5&6

2022-08-17 15:38:39 UTC

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?

It is not the words that we speak to children

that matter, but what we ourselves are—and above all what we are when we are dealing with our children.

Teachers do not implant an ethical attitude by moralizing. To the child, they are morality personified, so that there is truly no need for them to moralize. Whatever they do will be considered right; whatever they refrain from doing will be considered wrong. Thus, in liv- ing contact between child and teacher, an entire system of sym- pathies and antipathies regarding matters of life will develop. Through those sympathies and antipathies, a right feeling for the dignity of human beings and for a proper involvement in life will develop. At this age, too, we can perhaps see emerging from the inner depths of the child’s soul something that sur- faces at times and needs only to be interpreted correctly.

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

How do I not emphasise on moralising children?

Z-MYS Ashley Tan

2022-08-17 18:08:33 UTC

Z-MYS Ashley Tan

2022-08-17 18:09:00 UTC

Z-MYS Ashley Tan

2022-08-17 18:45:52 UTC

Z-MYS-Michelle Lee

2022-08-19 15:18:34 UTC

Lecture 5
Question 1:
Whatever the teacher or educator might be planning or preparing regarding any educational activity, there will always be the question in mind, what will be the consequences in later life of what I am doing now with the child? Such an attitude will stimulate an organic, that is, a living pedagogy.

Question 2:
How do I connect with the concepts into practical or influence to the child?

Question 3:
1. How does teeth changing affect the child readiness? How do I explain this to the parents?
2. How hereditary forces stemming from the child's ancestors effect on the child?

PL - fui koon

Pureland — 2022-08-19 23:56:14 UTC

Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy - Lecture 5&6

1. What is the sentences that touches you most?

whatever a teacher or educator might be planning or preparing regarding any educational activity, there will always be the question in mind, what will be the consequences in later life of what i am doing now with the child? such an attitude will stimulate and organic, that is, a living pedagogy.

3. Which part you do not understand?

pg 183 - why eurythmy becomes an important educatinal aid for ages of 9-10?

PL - fui Koon

Pureland — 2022-08-20 00:29:29 UTC

Prepare a tiny opening speech / opening thought for a parents - teacher meeting

Pureland — 2022-08-20 00:32:57 UTC

Dear class 6 parents, it is very important for our educational endeavours that is given to children to be done out of an inner, living experience with “love”. Not only must we consider well to only the “what”, but consider more on the “how”. In order to be able to foster living experiences , not death pictures within children’s educational approach. In Waldorf school's curriculum, we focus mainly on art, music, story, hands on experiences, gardening and etc. which are important to develop the willing, feeling and thinking in children development process.Dear class 6 parents, it is very important for our educational endeavours that is given to children to be done out of an inner, living experience with “love”. Not only must we consider well to only the “what”, but consider more on the “how”. In order to be able to foster living experiences , not death pictures within children’s educational approach. In Waldorf school's curriculum, we focus mainly on art, music, story, hands on experiences, gardening and etc. which are important to develop the willing, feeling and thinking in children development process.

Tx patricia

2022-08-20 05:53:48 UTC

TX Patricia

2022-08-21 06:47:42 UTC

Chapter 5

Prepare a tiny opening speech

lengswoo — 2022-08-21 10:31:32 UTC

Leng : tell a story about how parrot imitate the sound of surrounding just like how children imitate from their environment. It is to remind parent always be a good role model to children and don't blame them when they do something wrong.

Z-MYS-LIM CHEW KIOW

2022-08-25 08:26:45 UTC

PGW - Hong Jun Yi Individual task: Reading_ Read Anthroposophy Lecture 5&6 and answer the following questions

2022-08-27 09:26:10 UTC

1. What is the sentence that touches you the most?
"Each teacher is given complete freedom. We do not insist on a fixed pedagogical dogma but, instead, we introduce our teachers to the whole spirit of anthroposophical pedagogical
principles and methods."

2. Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?
The above quote mentioned that teacher is given complete freedom, there is no insist on a fixed pedagogical dogma, how can we know the teacher is doing the right thing for the children? How can we measure this?

3. Which part do you not understand?
No.

Z-MYS-Lee Li Hwey

2022-08-28 17:09:55 UTC

TX Kui Yong Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy Chapter 4

2022-09-06 22:37:14 UTC

1) Sentence that touches me the most
Consider well the what, but consider more the how.
If we train children to make their own judgements too early, we expose them to forces of death instead of giving them forces of life.

Life can evolve only with life.

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?
To become fully human, people should be relieved of the coercion of work so that they can be free to play.

3) Which part you do not understand?
A child's memory and ability to think, and also a child's faculty of feeling, become very different nowadays.

TX Kui Yong Lecture 5 & 6

2022-09-06 22:57:26 UTC

PL Eevonne Tan Lecture 5 & 6

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?
L5- Whenever we are in the presence of our children--we do only what they can safely imitate (whether in deeds, gestures, language or even thought)

L6- Many persons who, later in life, appear lacking in a sense of responsibility--lacking in loving devotion to the surrounding world--would have been helped if they had been taught writing in the right way.

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?
L5-What will be the consequences in later life of what I am doing now with the child?
L6-The ability to distinguish between self and environment with full inner independence is achieved only at puberty.

3) Which part you do not understand?
L5-He or she hardly dares to open the door to enter into the presence of such a personality. Why is this so?

Z-MYS-Chen Chee Ying

2022-09-12 14:27:36 UTC

Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy Lecture 4,5,6

Chapter 4

What is the sentence that touches you most?

When we stand before a child who is an imitator, we must be mindful even of our thoughts, not only our actions.

Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through it?

If the child’s will (for example listening to instruction) is not properly build in the early years, what can we do to help him with it?

Which part do you not understand?

The most important force in education, between age of seven and puberty, lies in a pupil’s belief that the teacher, as an authority, knows what is right and does what is right. This must sink down into the child.

If students do not develop on the basis of this belief in the authority of the teacher, they will be unable, when older, to enter social life in a wholesome manner.

What is the connection between authority (early years) vs entering social life(later)?

Chapter 5

What is the sentence that touches you most?

We can enhance that feeling into a religious mood through which a child can learn how to pray. What was present in the devotional attitude of a praying child resurfaces as a power of blessing.

Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through it?

How to pray “correctly” since learning to pray in childhood as it will turn into blessing during the fiftieth or fifty fifth year?

Which part do you not understand?

As a human being, learning to walk becomes integrated into the will sphere of the nervous system, so, in learning to speak, the child’s feeling life likewise becomes integrated.

If the child is 2years old and not willing to speak yet (but able to walk and run), the breathing system and feeling life is not strong yet? How do we go about the strengthen it?

Chapter 6

What is the sentence that touches you most?

Teachers do not implant an ethical attitude by moralizing.

Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through it?

In the country where “eurythmy” is not easily available, what other alternative movement which can help to enable the inner life of the child?

Z-MYS-Chen Chee Ying

2022-09-12 14:32:22 UTC

Form drawing

Z-MYS-Chen Chee Ying

2022-09-12 14:34:25 UTC

Sketching

PL - fui koon

Pureland — 2022-09-16 01:06:57 UTC

Z-MYS-Ayaka Oda

2022-09-22 03:17:27 UTC

Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy-Lecture4

1.　What is the sentence that touches you most？

Insofar as we are human, then, we are growing, continuously changing beings. And as educators, likewise, this is the kind of essence that we must pour into children's souls. All ideas , thoughts and feelings that we pour into children during their school years must have the essence of growth in them.

Consider well the what, but consider more the how

2. Is there a question you can find within yourself?

How do I grow and cultivate myself to be a good adult and educator?

3. which part do you not understand?

So far, I understand the words.

KW - Xin Yi

mwepcontact — 2022-09-22 06:47:48 UTC

Task 1 (Anthroposophy Lecture Chapter 4)
1. Ask at least one question to yourself
How should I connect with my spiritual side?

2.What is the sentences that touches you the most.
Teachers are truly grounded in an understanding of the whole human being, their knowledge of anthroposophy fills not only their intellect, with its capacity to systematize, but embraces the whole human being who also feels and wills.

3.Mark 2 key sentences
i) Antroposophical knowledge creaates in our teachers true forces of willl to do all that they can for growing children in accordance with the demands of each childs organization

ii) The spiritual is imperceptible to outer senses and if we take the so-called visual instruction method too far, we lead children into believing in only what is sense perceptible, that is into -- materialism.

KW - Xin Yi

mwepcontact — 2022-09-22 06:54:51 UTC

Task 2 (Anthroposophy Lecture Chapter 5&6)
1. What is the sentences that touches you the most.
i) The Waldorf school is not meant to be an ideological school. It is meant to be a school where what we can gain through anthroposophy with living inwardness can flow into practical teaching methods and actual teaching skills.

ii) Whenever we are in the presence of our children. We do only what they can safely imitate (whether in deeds, gestures, language or even though)

2. Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through it?
As a teacher, am I "qualified: to be the role model/person who can be imitated by my pre-school students?

3.Which part do you not understand?
If one has the necessary basis of observation, one can perceive how the embryo, especially during the first month of pregnancy, is formed not only by the forces of heredity, but by the entire cosmos.

The maternal body is in truth the matrix ofr what is formed through commic forces, out of a state of chaos, into the human embryo

KLSE Ashley lee

2022-09-22 07:32:06 UTC

Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy - Lecture 4
1) What is the sentence that touches you most?
" Life can evolve only with life"

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?
How can my life influence or help the children if i have not experience the education of waldorf during my childhood time?

3) Which part do you not understand?
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Kw - Xin Yi

2022-09-22 07:58:52 UTC

KW- Xin Yi

2022-09-22 07:59:33 UTC

Kw - Xin Yi

2022-09-22 08:00:06 UTC

Moone

2022-09-22 15:49:42 UTC

Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy - Lecture 4

"something from one's earliest years lives on in one's soul"

only when we play we are fully human, and we play only when are human in the truest sense of the word.

Moone

2022-09-22 16:36:36 UTC

Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy - Lecture 5&6

What was present in the devotional attitude of a praying child resurfaces as a power of blessing, emanating from the words spoken by such a person - especially when he or she addresses children.

Regarding any educational activity, there will always be the question in mind, what will be the consequences in later life of what I am doing now with the child? Such an attitude will stimulate an organic, that is , a living pedagogy.

KW-Lai Han

evilchai — 2022-09-25 14:35:01 UTC

Cai Ying

2022-09-27 08:47:39 UTC

Lecture 4

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?

Our educational principles and methods must not be tied up in fixed formulae. Rather, they must become a kind of refined, practical instinct for action in those who educate from a living knowledge of human beings.

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through it?

How do I implement most of the anthroposophy concept into class / lesson?

3) Which part not understands?

a) The point is that one learns to observe the child more intimately. This kind of observation, this empathy with the child, has gradually been lost. (pg 106)

How to observe the child more intimately?

b) If we train children to make their own judgments too early, we expose them to forces of death instead of giving them forces of life. (pg: 121)

What does “forces of death” meant here?

KW - Gabby Lim

2022-09-27 08:54:09 UTC

Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy - Lecture 5&6

1. What is the sentence that touches you most?
If a child practices the appropriate movements at an earlier age, he or she will develop intelligence, intellect, the power of reasoning, the ability to discriminate, and so forth at a later age. If we are asked, "Why has a particular child not developed a healthy ability to discriminate by the time he or she is thirteen or fourteen? Why does he or she make such confused judgments?" We often have to answer, "Because the child was not encouraged to make the right kinds of physical hand and foot movement in early childhood."

2. Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?
As I read more and know more, many damages had been made. What are the things I can do to restore it?

3. Which part you do not understand?
Page 191
When the child reaches sexual maturity, another, higher member of the human organism comes to meet the etheric body. That is, during the age of sexual maturity, the human astral body, as it is called anthroposophy, comes to meet the etheric body. This is a stage when what had developed into a system of sympathies and antipathies in the child changes into a person's moral attitudes.

KW - Gabby Lim

2022-09-27 09:02:19 UTC

KW - Gabby Lim

2022-09-27 09:30:26 UTC

KW-Jane Ng : Lecture 4

2022-09-29 09:58:36 UTC

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?

learnt to observe the child more intimately. This kind of observation, this empathy with the child, has gradually been lost. So often today, when attempts are made to educate young human beings, it is as if we were actually circumventing the child's real being.

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

When we observe the child with challenging behaviour, and we knew that there must be the reason behind which happened to the soul. but how are we going to help if the parent can't see it or rather don't understand?

3) Which part you do not understand?
In anthroposophical spiritual science, one learns to know what is given when a baby is born. We learn that a child bears within itself not only what we can perceive with our senses but also a spirit-soul being that has united with the physical embryo.

Z-MYS Ashley Tan

2022-09-29 13:00:06 UTC

Z-MYS Ashley Tan

2022-09-29 16:15:29 UTC

Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy - Lecture 5&6

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?
"A teacher and educator must not only deal with the business of teaching actual subjects to pupils; she or he must also bear the burden of responsibility for their pupils' inner happiness and feeling of security right into the last years of their lives."

"Anthroposophy therefore seeks to shed light on all aspects of human nature - not just theoretically but lovingly."

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?
As the role of a Waldorf teacher regarded so important in the life of students, what if when the student found out the teacher who was highly regarded was not as perfect as he/she would have thought?

In the lecture "Whatever they (teachers) do will be considered right; whatever they refrain from doing will be considered right..." what if the teachers smoke? What if the teachers a homosexual?

3) Which part do you not understand?
Vowel and consonants in speech, in what ways do they build relationship between the child with the world?

Cai Ying

2022-09-30 08:46:43 UTC

Lecture 5 & 6

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?

With regard to a child’s upbringing, this calls forth one all-important principle: when you are around a child, only behave in ways that child can safely intimate.

The what is known; with the help of anthroposophy, we must find the how.

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through it?

How can I to be more understand about the development of the children in different age?

3) Which part not understands?

As a baby begins its earthly existence, its prenatal spirit and soul are linked to the rest of the organism excluding the head. The head is a kind of picture of the cosmos but, at the same time, it is the most material part of the body.

Z-MYS-Siew Jiun Hui

2022-09-30 14:56:30 UTC

Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy - Lecture 5/6

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?

· A teacher must be an artist, for it is the teacher’s task to deal in the right way with the forces that previously shaped the child’s organism.

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

· I pointed to the fact that much depends on a teacher’s detecting the inner soul needs of each child at this critical stage and taking appropriate action. This moment in a child’s development must be observed accurately. For only at this stage does the child begin to learn to differentiate its individual self from its surroundings. It does this in three ways in feeling, in will activity, and through the forming of judgments.

Ques: How can a teacher manage to detecting the inner soul needs of each child at the critical state since there are lots of children in the class? Is there any guideline?

3) Which part you do not understand?

· If teachers are able to follow a child’s whole soul-spiritual configuration in detail as each child first draws single figures, which leads to formation of letters and then to writing words that are also read and if they are able to pursue this whole process with anthroposophical insight and observation of growing human beings then a true practice of teaching will emerge.

How to define a teacher able to follow each child's whole soul-spiritual configuration in detail? Is there any guideline? Thank you

Z- Chia Yee Lecture 4

2022-09-30 16:30:45 UTC

1) sentence that touches the most: Consider well the what but consider more the how
2) question within yourself. Being a very rigid person, will I be able to apply the Waldorf ways at home to support my children to grow to meet their true callings.
3) Questions: nil

Klse - Patricia lim

2022-09-30 17:06:22 UTC

Sentence that touched me:
It is important that the examples the child sees and imitates are of a kind that awaken inner forces.

Question that came up:
How can a child who is growing up in a materialistic world becomes one who grows up with no longing for the spirit/creativity?

PGW - Khaw Siew Wei

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Zhibin

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Zhibin

2022-10-12 13:44:15 UTC

Lfh -Simyee

2022-11-23 05:51:19 UTC

Lfh - sim yee

2022-11-23 05:52:25 UTC

LFH -HONG SIM YEE

2022-12-30 16:01:54 UTC

Z-MYS-COC-Tan Aun Chea

2023-06-14 08:45:54 UTC

Chapter 4
1. What is the sentence that touches you the most?

Therefore if teachers are aware of the right moment, and can find the appropriate words, they can-acting as the situation demands -do something of lasting value and importance for the whole life of these children aged between nine and ten.

2. Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through it?

"the most important force in education, between the age of seven and puberty, lies in a pupil's belief, that the teacher, as an authority, knows what is right and does what is right. This must sink down into the child.
Only when we play we are fully human, and we play only when we are human in the truest sense of the word.

3. Which part do you not understand?

If we train children to make their own judgements too early, we expose them to forces of death instead of giving them forces of life.

Z-MYS-Tan Aun Chea

2023-06-14 09:17:19 UTC

Chapter 5
1. What is the sentence that touches you the most?

It is not the words that we speak to children that matter, but what we ourselves are-and above all what we are when dealing with our children. This is especially important during the period between ninth and tenth years, for it is during this time that the child's feels the underlying background out of which the teacher's words are spoken.

2. Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through it?

Anthroposophy offers practical guidance in recognising the spirit as it manifests in outer, material processes. It wants to follow the spirit working in matter. In order to be able to do this-to follow the spirit in its creativity, it's effectiveness- anthroposophy must stand on firm ground and requires the involvement of whole human beings. We do not wish to be dogmatic.

3.Which part do you not understand?

In education, above all, anthroposophy does not wish to introduce revolutionary ideas, but seeks only to extend and supplement already existing achievements. To appreciate those,one need only draw attention to the contribution of the great educates of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Anyone with education at heart can feel only enthusiasm for their comprehensive ideas and powerful principles.

Z-MYS-Tan Aun Chea

2023-06-27 14:50:23 UTC

Z-MYS-Tan Aun Chea A tiny opening speech/opening thought for a parents-teacher meeting.

2023-06-28 13:55:20 UTC

"Consider well the What, but consider more the How"
For new G1 parents:
Good morning and welcome to the Waldorf community education. I believe we as teachers and parents would love to give the best to our children. In such, we would love to hear thoughts from parents what are expected out of Waldorf education.
In Waldorf, what matters is truly observe life, to bear in mind the living human being who is capable of doing what needs to be done under given circumstances. We introduce writing before reading in an artistic way; working with colours not only with crayons but also with watercolours.
We allow the child to be active without in any way engaging the forces of intellectual but the will. From drawing and painting, we gradually lead the child's first will in writing towards a more intellectual understanding of what is written.

Tan Aun Chea

2023-06-28 13:58:29 UTC

Tan Aun Chea

2023-06-28 14:05:20 UTC

Z-MYS-COC-Lee Hui Juen Short-stroke pencil sketching 1

huijuen0528 — 2023-07-03 16:26:54 UTC

Z-MYS-COC-Lee Hui Juen Pencil Sketching 2B & 2A

huijuen0528 — 2023-07-03 16:41:14 UTC

Z-MYS-COC-Lee Hui Juen Form drawing

huijuen0528 — 2023-07-03 16:45:12 UTC

I try so many time until I learn how to balance the form abit…

Z-MYS-COC-Lee Hui Juen

huijuen0528 — 2023-07-03 17:30:07 UTC

Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy - Lecture 4

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?

“This is the reason why one cannot formulate the methods of the Waldorf school in a few abstract rules.”

“Consider well the What, but consider more of the how. What matters is the right how. Ones have to find ways and means of implementing the ideas into practical life in the right way.”

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

“Only when we play we are fully human, and we play only when we are human in the truest sense of the word”

Q：Who am I and What I am？
Q：Am I carry the authentic authority with the child？

3) Which part you do not understand?

“There is spirit in all matter will not proceed from a feeling of being far more clever than the child” -page 114

Z-MYS-COC-Lee Hui Juen

huijuen0528 — 2023-07-15 11:44:39 UTC

Anthroposophy Lecture Chapter 5&6

1. What is the sentence that touches you the most?

The real influence lies in the teacher's overall personal quality and cultivation, his central idea, and he brings all these into the classroom.

“We should not underestimate how such familiar things influence the whole of human life. Many persons who, later in life, appear lacking in a sense of responsibility—lacking in lov-ing devotion to the surrounding world—would have been helped if they had been taught writing in the right way.We must not overlook such intimate interconnection.” —— Pg 192

2. Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through it?

Teacher must first educate ourselves.

3.Which part do you not understand?

Adults are the objects of imitation for children. If we find that some behaviors are inappropriate when we grow up, how can we use more moderate methods/exercises to improve our behavior problems when we grow up?

Z-MYS-LEE HUI JUEN

huijuen0528 — 2023-07-15 12:34:08 UTC

Prepare a tiny opening speech

(I will start with Morning Circle to getter parent)

The sun rises, make a circle, sang a poem, tell a story let us connect with each other, nourish children's senses, and use the most authentic art to explore the essence of things. There are four seasons, festivals, the universe, and morality to nourish everything a child needs.

Welcome all Grade 1 parents to come to the children's secret base, where there are wax block painting, wet watercolor, beeswax, handicrafts and other activities to integrate art into life. Use art to nourish the child's mind, balance the child's senses, coordinate the child's body, and gradually awaken the child's self-awareness. Let children receive great protection and personalized support during the golden period of imagination and creativity development.

We use the concepts of Waldorf and anthroposophy, follow the nature and laws of children's development, and conduct in-depth and meticulous observation and research on the life and essence of each child. And according to the child's development stage, help the child's body, mind and spirit to develop in a balanced and harmonious way, so as to guide him to become a fully free and mature person in body, mind and spirit.

Adhering to the concept of Waldorf education, create a natural and beautiful space for children, build themselves in their own home, and let children be themselves. Have you really discovered your true self? Let's get into today's topic: How Ordinary life essentially chains us into kindmof slavery.

Zhibin. Lec 4 What is the sentences that touches you most? Consider well the what, but consider more the how.

2023-07-29 09:07:54 UTC

TX-Boo Chieh Piang

teacherboo — 2023-09-27 13:34:13 UTC

(1) Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy - Lecture 4

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?

During prepubescence, when pupils open their inner being to us, believing in our authority, we must be what amounts to the whole world for them. If they find a world in us as their teachers, then they receive the right preparation to become reverent, social people in the world. We release them from our authority, which gave them a world, into the wide world itself.

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

Am I able to teach my students well?

3) Which part you do not understand?

Why if we train children to make their own judgments too early, we expose them to forces of death instead of giving them forces of life?

(2) Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy - Lecture 5&6
1) What is the sentence that touches you most?

it is not the words that we speak to children that matter, but what we ourselves are.

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture? How do I teach all children that come from different backgrounds and have different personalities? How do I give them the equal love ?

3) Which part you do not understand?

TX-Boo Chieh Piang

teacherboo — 2023-09-27 14:09:17 UTC

TX-Boo Chieh Piang

teacherboo — 2023-10-03 10:46:56 UTC

TX-Boo Chieh Piang

teacherboo — 2023-10-04 02:53:09 UTC

TX-Coc-Boo Chieh Piang

teacherboo — 2023-10-07 11:15:17 UTC

1Group task: Summary of discussion
Prepare a tiny opening speech/opening thought for a parents-teacher meeting using the quotation shared before (pdf in archive padlet)

We must be the best possible surrounding so that the child can educate itself in tune with its destiny.Consider well the What, but consider more the How.
What matters is that love of the child lies at the root of all our educational endeavors and that all teaching be done out of inner living experience.
Therefore in Waldorf education, the focus is on observing the development of willing, feeling and thinking forces.

Irene - Lecture 4

2023-10-28 05:16:44 UTC

i) Sentence that touches me most is -

Consider well the What, but consider more of the how. What matters is the right how. Ones have to find ways and means of implementing the ideas into practical life in the right way.

ii) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

How to restore the mistakes or rather things that have done to children or myself?

Irene - Lecture 5 & 6

2023-10-28 05:32:28 UTC

i) Sentences that touches me most - It is not the word that we speak to children matter, but what we ourselves are - and above all what we are, when we are dealing with our children.

ii) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

How to become the person who have the quality of authority that children look up to?

Group: Opening speech at parent's meeting

2023-10-28 05:48:05 UTC

Share one of the quote in Steiner's lecture -

It is not the word that we speak to children matter, but what we ourselves are - and above all what we are, when we are dealing with our children.

Emphasize to parents it is important to practice what we learn or feel inspired from the lecture in real life. We have to first start doing it and at the same time as a model for children to follow. Practice doing in three folds where thinking, feeling and willing is.

Sim yee -lecture 4

2023-11-27 05:14:50 UTC

Hoh Siew Choo-Lecture 4

2023-11-27 15:06:54 UTC

1.What is the sentence that touches you most?

Insofar as we are human, then we are growing , continuously changing beings. And as educators likewise, this is the kind of essence that we must pour into children's souls. All ideas, thoughts and feelings that we pour into children during their school years must have the essence of growth in them.

Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?
What will be the consequences in later life of what I am doing now?

Hoh Siew Choo -Lecture 5&6

2023-11-27 15:13:59 UTC

What is the sentence that touches you most?
"another feeling also lives in the child, often only dimly and vaguely felt. This is the feeling that those who are the objects of such authority must themselves also look up to something higher."
Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?
How to form the hearts and souls of teachers so that they entered their classrooms and greeted their children in the right spirit was considered most important ?

PGW - COC - Teoh Soo Sang

2023-12-31 17:07:45 UTC

(1) Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy - Lecture 4

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?

In the Waldorf school, instead of such stereotyped phrases or numerical marks, we write reports in which teachers express in their own style how each pupil has fared during the year. Our reports do not contain abstract remarks that must seem like mere empty phrases to the child. For, if something makes no sense, it is a mere phrase. As each child gradually grows up into life, the teachers write in their school reports what each pupil needs to know about him- or herself. Each report thus contains its own individual message, representing a kind of biography of the pupil’s life at school during the previous school year. Furthermore, we end our reports with a little verse, specially composed for each child, epitomizing the year’s progress.

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

How can I help my students make progress in their studies?

3) Which part you do not understand?

No.

(2) Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy - Lecture 5&6

1) What is the sentence that touches you most?

education is not a product of theories or abstract principles but grows out of the need to deal practically with human affairs.

2) Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

If I’m not really understand then how do I teach children？

3) Which part you do not understand?

PGW - COC - Teoh Soo Sang

2023-12-31 17:11:58 UTC

PGW - COC - Teoh Soo Sang

2023-12-31 17:12:21 UTC

PGW - Chin Li Ying - Read Anthroposophy Lecture 4 and answer the following questions

2024-10-05 02:26:56 UTC

1. What is the sentence that touches you most?

Our educational principles and methods must not be tied up in fixed formulae. Rather, they must become kind of refined, practical instinct for action in those who educate from a living knowledge of human beings. (pg.113)

Teachers prepare their pupils not by controlling their intellect or their capacity to form judgments but by setting the right example as living human beings. (pg.121)

2. Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

Are my actions and my thoughts that children can safely imitate? (pg.109)

Do I feeling greatly superior to the child or feeling of being far more clever than the child? (pg.114)

Do I train children to make their own judgment too early? (pg.121)

3. Which part you do not understand?

"Consider well the what, but consider more the how. " (pg.114)

I need more explanations on this quote.

PGW - Chin Li Ying - Read Anthroposophy Lecture 5&6 and answer the following questions

2024-10-05 02:29:49 UTC

1. What is the sentence that touches you most?

We must plant into a child's soul only concepts, idea, feeling, and will impulses that because they are not fixed into sharp and final contours, are capable of further development. (pg.152)

Only by avoiding rigidity can we hope that what we plant into a child's heart will emerge during later life in the right way. (pg.152)

The Waldorf school is not meant to be an ideological school. It is meant to be a school where what we can gain through anthroposophy with living inwardness can flow into practical teaching methods and actual teaching skills. (pg.157)

When you are around a child, only behave in ways that child can safely imitate. (pg.161)

The essence of Waldorf education is to make education into an art-the art of the right treatment of children. A teacher must be an artist, for it is the teacher's task to deal in the right way with the forces that previously shaped the child's organism. (pg.164)

Anthroposophy never seeks to demonstrate a theory-this always tends toward intellectuality-but seeks to engage directly in the fullness of practical life. (pg.172)

2. Is there a question you can find within yourself when you read through the lecture?

Do I plant rigid concept to children? (pg.152)

Am I able to follow a child's whole soul spiritual configuration in detail? (pg.165)

Do I believe in the truth of this picture with the same earnestness that I wish to awaken in the child? (pg.169)

3. Which part you do not understand?

A quality corresponding to the soul being of the adult who is in the child's presence flows into the child's feeling through these vowels. On the other hand, everything that stimulates the child to perform its own movements in relation to the external world-such as finding to the right relationship to warmth or coldness-leads to the speaking of consonants. (pg.156)

How vowel and consonants build relationship between the children with the world?

Those who write mechanically no longer experience an echo of their writing. (pg.176)

What is the meaning by write mechanically?

We should not underestimate how such familiar things influence the whole of human life. Many person who, later in life, appear lacking in a sense of responsibility-lacking in loving devotion to the surrounding world-would have been helped if they had been taught writing in the right way. (pg.177)

Please explain more about this sentence.

PGW - Chin Li Ying - Form Drawing

2024-10-05 02:39:34 UTC

PGW - Chin Li Ying - Sketching on A3 paper

2024-10-05 02:45:47 UTC

PGW - Chin Li Ying - Sketching on A3 paper

2024-10-05 02:47:02 UTC

Mandy Lim Szu Mien - Week 2 assignment

2025-02-19 15:12:38 UTC

Foundation 2 : Assignment Week 02 (06 & 07 AUGUST 2022) by MWEP Course

Z-MYS-Audrey Chow

KW - Xin Yi

Group Discussion: What does "Education Child" suggests about the education of child during 7-14 years old?

What does Steiner suggest in our approach to teaching children between 7-14?

KW Gabby

Chapter 4 - KLSE Celene

Z-MYS Samantha Choong

Z-MYS-LIM CHEW KIOW

Z-MYS Soo May Shin - lecture 4

KLSE - Vivien Tan

Z-MYS Samantha Choong Form Drawing

Z-MYR Samantha Choong Form Drawing

KLSE - Shareen Herbert

Siew Ying Wen - Lecture 4

PL - fui koon

KW-Lai Han

Z-MYS YiFan

Z- MYS- Lee Mei Fuen

PGW- Khaw Siew Wei

PL-Chen Wei Li

PL - Cadence

Chee Foong Kim

PL Eevonne Tan Waldorf Education & Anthroposophy Chapter 4

PL Eevonne Tan Form Drawing

KLSE-Lalida

TX-Patricia

PGW - Hong Jun Yi Individual task: Reading_Read Anthroposophy Lecture 4 and answer the following questions

Z-MYS-Audrey Chow

PL-Chen Wei Li

PL - Cadence

PGW - Hong Jun​ Yi: Form Drawing

Task: Prepare a tiny opening speech for parents-teacher meeting using the quotes

Group Task: Prepare an opening speech for PTM using quotes

Parents - Teachers Meeting

Group discussion - What does "Education of Child" suggests about the education of child during 7-14?

Group :Opening Speech at parents' meeting

Prepare a tiny opening speech/opening thought for a parents-teacher meeting using the quotation shared before.

Group 11: Quote for PTM

Z-MYS- Yifan Form Drawing

KLSE-Lalida

KLSE Ashley lee

Opening Speech at Parent's meeting

Z-MYS-LIM CHEW KIOW

prepare a tiny opening speech/opening thought for a parents-teacher meeting using the quotation shared before

Z-MYS-Audrey Chow

KLSE - Vivien Tan

KLSE - Vivien Tan (pencil shading)

KLSE - Vivien Tan (pencil shading)

KLSE-Lalida

Patricia lim

Patricia lim

KLSE_Dayang (FORM DRAWING)

Form Drawing - KLSE Celene

Circles sketching - KLSE Celene

Z-MYS-Ayaka Oda

Z-MYS-Ayaka Oda

Circle Sketching ( Z -MYS Lim Chiou Min)

Z-MYS-LEE LI HWEY

Z-MYS-LIM CHEW KIOW

Z-MYS-Yifan inward circle

Z-MYS-Yifan outward circle

TX- Patricia

Z-MYS Samantha Choong

KLSE_Dayang

KLSE_Dayang

Z-MYS- Ashley Tan

Z-Chia Yee

Cai Ying

Cai Ying

Z-Chia Yee

Form drawing (Z-MYS Agnesiah)

Z-MYS-LIM CHEW KIOW

Z-MYS- Michelle Lee

Z-MYS-Michelle Lee

Z-MYS-Michelle Lee

PL Eevonne Tan

PL Eevonne Tan

Chng Huey Nah,Christina

Chng Huey Nah,Christina

PGW - Hong Jun Yi: Form Drawing