Students then create their own textbooks, known
as main lesson books, which become written and artistic records of what they have experienced in class and learned in each subject.
She shares examples from
former Main Lesson Books to highlight what she is teaching to participants during this lecture series.
There will be time and space to consider and hone your skills in such practical matters
as main lesson books, block planning, projects and activities, and classroom management.
July 13 - 15 (2 - Days) Techniques and Skills for Creating Beautiful Drawings in the Grades A Focus on Chalkboards and
Main Lesson Books With Steve Simonak of the Brooklyn Waldorf School
Rather than using standardized textbooks, Waldorf Grades students create their
own main lesson books — writing text and illustrations from their classroom learning and sometimes outside research.
In this workshop, grades 1 - 8 class and subject teachers will receive instruction in the basics of how to create beautiful chalkboard drawings and how to
approach Main Lesson book drawings across the Waldorf lower and middle school curricula.
This in - service included singing, circle activities for the lower and middle grades, lectures on freehand geometry, faculty meetings, child study, and
main lesson book preparations.
Students are assessed through their knowledge and skill in recounting the content of
the main lesson books (or portfolios) they create over the course of the year.
Daily we teach to all these six senses:
Our main lesson books encourage design, as does from drawing, modeling painting and the like.
Along with this, ongoing class participation and
main lesson book / portfolio assessments provide an opportunity for evaluation.
From fourth grade on, the teacher assesses the students in the writing of their own compositions and, starting in sixth grade, in the integration of science experiment write - ups in
their main lesson books.