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I'm just back from my teacher training week at Rudolf Steiner College and I'm full of ideas for planning for the coming school year.
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Notes This Week
Thoughts after my Art of Teaching Grade 8 experience at Rudolf Steiner College.
Discussion about future plans.
Planning
Starting with the big picture and narrowing focus.
8th Grade Block Rotation
September/October -- Meteorology/Physics
November -- History
December -- Play/Platonic Solids
January -- Chemistry
February -- The Short Story
March -- History
April -- AnatomyMay -- Geography
June -- History/Current Events
Summer Reading
Meteorology/Physics
American Revolution
French Revolution
Geography
End of Main Lesson Verse
May wisdom shine through me
May love glow in me
May strength penetrate me
That in me may arise
A helper for humanity
A servant of sacred things
Selfless and true.
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This week's Calendar of the Soul verse is the 16th week.
To bear in inward keeping spirit bounty
Is stern command of my prophetic feeling,
That ripened gifts divine
Maturing in the depths of soul
To selfhood bring their fruits.
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