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What You Need to Know
- Choosing a School: Types of Schools
- Charter Schools
- K-12 Single-Sex Education: What Does the Research Say?
- The Advantages of Small Schools
- Choosing a Preschool
- Selecting the School That Is Right for Your Child: Consider Your Child & Your Family
- What to Look for in a Classroom
- What Makes a School Effective?
How You Can Help
- Choosing a School for Your Child: Resources
- Questions to Ask Private Schools
- Selecting A School for Our Son with LD
- What to Look for When Visiting a School
- Gifted Children: Selecting a School
- Selecting the "Right" Therapeutic School or Program
- Selecting the School that is Right for Your Child: Visit & Observe Schools
What to Look for in a Classroom
An earlier version of this chart was published in the September 1996 issue of Educational Leadership, and reprinted as the title essay in the anthology What to Look for in a Classroom...And Other Essays. This revised version appeared as Appendix B of The Schools Our Children Deserve. ...
Reference | Alfie Kohn
The Montessori Approach
"I have studied the child. I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it and that is what is called the Montessori method." Dr. Maria Montessori The Montessori approach offers a broad vision of education as an aid to life. It is designed to help children with their task of ...
Reference | Association Montessori Internationale
Montessori Environments (Birth Through Adulthood)
Casa dei Bambini (3 to 6 Years) Children of this age possess what Dr. Montessori called the Absorbent Mind. This type of mind has the unique and transitory ability to absorb all aspects physical, mental, spiritual of the environment, without effort or fatigue. As an aid to the child's ...
Reference | Association Montessori Internationale
The Arts and Practical Skills
Waldorf teachers believe that the human being is not just a brain - but a being with heart and limbs - a being of will and feeling, as well as of intellect. To ensure that education does not produce one-sided individuals, crippled in emotional health and volition, these less conscious aspects of ...
Reference | Association of Waldorf Schools of North America
Waldorf Education K-12
Early Childhood Infants and young children are entirely given over to their physical surroundings; they absorb the world primarily through their senses and respond in the most active mode of knowing: imitation. Imitation is the power to identify oneself with one's immediate environment through ...
Reference | Association of Waldorf Schools of North America
Frequently Asked Questions About Waldorf Schools
What is Waldorf Education? Developed by Rudolf Steiner in 1919, Waldorf education is based on a developmental approach that addresses the needs of the growing child and maturing adolescent. Waldorf teachers strive to transform education in to an art that educates the whole child-the heart and the ...
Reference | Association of Waldorf Schools of North America
What about Computers and Waldorf Education?
Waldorf teachers feel the appropriate age for computer use in the classroom and by students is in high school. We feel it is more important for students to have the opportunity to interact with one another and with teachers in exploring the world of ideas, participating in the creative process, and ...
Reference | Association of Waldorf Schools of North America
How Do I Start a Waldorf School?
Initiative groups follow many different patterns in their development, but in recent years a certain trend has evolved which seems to be helpful to many groups. The initiative groups usually begin study groups for adults, and after a few years start a playgroup for children. After a year or two ...
Reference | Association of Waldorf Schools of North America
Selecting the School That Is Right for Your Child: Gather Information About Schools
If you were looking to buy a car, vacuum cleaner, or refrigerator, you could talk to friends and family and find information on the Internet, in consumer magazines, or in other published resources. Similarly, when investigating schools, you may also have to make phone calls, collect ...
Reference | U.S. Department of Education
Selecting the School That Is Right for Your Child: Apply to the School(s) You Choose
Once you select the school(s) that you think will be best for your child, you will go through a process of applying to a school (or schools) of your choice and enrolling your child. Consider applying to more than one school, in case your child is not admitted to their first choice. You will ...
Reference | U.S. Department of Education
