On this week’s episode of Anthroposophy Today, Scott and Sarita—a certified Waldorf teacher with 25 years of teaching experience--talk about the Waldorf seventh grade classroom!

Join us for this conversation and check out our blog post (link below) to hear Scott and Sarita discuss, among other things:

• A developmental picture of the seventh grader
• The challenges of entering adolescence and how to deal with them
• Choosing material that best suits your class or children
• Astronomy
• Recitation of a poem by Walt Whitman we love to use in the seventh grade astronomy block
• How biography is used as a teaching tool and why it’s so effective
• History: The Age of Discovery
• Recitation of a moving excerpt from Torin M. Finser’s telling of the story of Joan of Arc
• Chemistry, including a great book by David S. Mitchell you can use as a resource
• Combustion and mechanics
• Nutrition and health block
• Algebra, beginning from a historical perspective

Don’t forget to check out our blog post for more information on today’s episode, and if you have any questions or feedback, feel free to contact us at: anthroposophytodaypodcast@gmail.com

Thanks for listening!

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BLOG POST:  www.anthroposophytoday.com/episodes/s1-ep8-seventh-grade

WEBSITE: www.anthroposophytoday.com

Host: Scott Fishman

Co-host: Sarita Jimenez-Fishman

https://www.instagram.com/saritafishman/

Producer: Sarena Fishman Jimenez

www.sarenafishman.com

https://www.instagram.com/sarenafishman/

Cover Art: Solomon Fishman