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A 6-minute broadcast on WMNF News
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Video Samples from the Online Conferences
The Online Conferences have become the most widely-attended summer teacher conferences in the English-speaking world. These videos, drawn from all eight grades, will help you understand the popularity of these courses.
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Reading, Writing, Recapitulation
A Slideshow Created for the Online Grade One Conference.
Is the Waldorf “slow reading” idea out of synch in our fast-moving times? Are Waldorf teachers so dreamy about the subject that they don’t notice the dyslexic children in their class, or don’t realize how many impatient parents are quietly leaving their school? Under increasing pressure from parents (and their own colleagues) growing numbers of Waldorf teachers are moving children more rapidly into writing and reading, and in so doing abandoning essential principles of Waldorf pedagogy. Eugene Schwartz created this video slideshow for teachers taking part in the Online Grade One Conference, but they, in turn, asked that it be made more widely available so that Waldorf parents, administrators, and teachers could also view this provocative presentation.
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The Other Two-Thirds of the Class:
Parents in the Waldorf School
In these two lectures, given at the Susquehanna Waldorf School in Marietta, PA, Eugene Schwartz points to the central — and growing — importance of parental involvement in the Waldorf school setting. Essential viewing for parents and teachers alike.
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No Success Like Failure
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Why Waldorf Education in the 21st Century?
A Conversation with Parents at the Yuba River Charter School
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Light in the Darkness / Darkness in the Light:
A New Perspective on Media and the Waldorf Schools
Waldorf schools are famous for their outspoken defense of children from the onslaught of media. But as computers and smart phones, tablets and eBooks become almost inescapable in everyday life, do Waldorf schools run the risk of growing entrenched in their attitude toward a device-filled world? If Waldorf students are encouraged to say “Yes” to the world, should their schools be saying “No”?
As a Waldorf educator, Eugene Schwartz is convinced that we cannot oppose television, computer games, and social media without deepening our understanding of child development. As an Apple iOS Developer, Eugene contends that we cannot understand the enigma of today’s child without a broader connection to media technology. Waldorf education, he believes, has the potential to bring breadth and depth to both of these worlds.
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Whither Waldorf? A Debate
The First-Ever Debate about Issues in Waldorf Education
Critics of Waldorf education often label it a “closed system” that resists innovation and not tolerate debate. In reality, Waldorf education has been undergoing profound changes. Responding to intense pressure from parents, independent Waldorf schools have quietly replaced “generalist” class teachers with specialists, introduced testing and grades at the middle school level, and made homework in early grades more the rule than the exception. But because of the schools’ aversion to open debate, these changes have come in through the “back door,” and have become accomplished facts that are hard to reverse.
With this in mind, the Alliance for Public Waldorf Education dared to tread where independent Waldorf schools fear to go, and invited Rainbow Rosenbloom and Eugene Schwartz to engage in a debate about a number of substantive issues living in the Waldorf movement.
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What is Waldorf Education, Part One
What is Waldorf Education, Part Two
In preparation for a new documentary about Waldorf education, the Marin Waldorf School interviewed Eugene Schwartz in Mill Valley, CA in the autumn of 2010. This two-part video presents the entire interview, only a small part of which will appear in the finished film. This version is uncut and unedited: watch Eugene sweat and squirm as he is relentlessly grilled by two interviewers who refuse to accept platitudes as answers! These interviews may be viewed at: http://vimeo.com/22396764
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1. An Overview of Waldorf Education: The Waldorf Curriculum is illustrated through the medium of classroom work by students from grades one through twelve.

2. Learning to Read, Part One: The importance of movement and form perception in the teaching of reading in the Waldorf school.

3. Learning to Read, Part Two: How the Waldorf teacher recapitulates the development of letters through history to teach reading in the primary grades.

4. Grade Six Geometry: A kaleidoscopic look at the rigorous and beautiful geometrical drawings done by Waldorf sixth graders.

5. Discover Waldorf Education - The High School shows the manifold interplay of the Waldorf grade school and high school, as well as the “vertical” and “horizontal” integration of subjects in the high school years.

6. Discover Waldorf Education - Form Drawing, A Threefold Perspective is a humorous look at a very serious subject.

7. No Childhood Left Behind: An excerpt from an introductory lecture given in Jacksonville, FL.

8. Incarnation, Interrupted: Autism and Our Age
This lecture was given in England, at the Glasshouse College, a remarkable center for work with developmentally-challenged young people. Eugene Schwartz draws on the psychological and sociological methodology of Rudolf Steiner to present a picture of autism that embeds it in a wide range of phenomena of the times in which we live.

9. Today’s Children Need Tomorrow’s Schools: A complete lecture given at the Elmfield School, one of the oldest Waldorf schools in England. Eugene discusses the challenges faced by education in the twenty-first century and the manifold ways in which Waldorf methods can meet them.

10. Reading and Today’s Child: A complete lecture given to a association of journalists in Anchorage, Alaska. Eugene examines the role of literacy in our age of instant messaging and texting, and shows the importance of a slow and artistically-imbued approach to reading and writing.

11. No Childhood Left Behind: Excerpts from a lecture given in Jacksonville, FL. A refutation of the test-driven educational methods increasingly adopted by Congress and state legislators, this lecture presents the radically child-centered methodology of Waldorf schools.

12. Turning Points in the Life of the Child: Excerpts from a lecture given in Santa Monica, CA. The importance of the seven, nine, and twelve years cycles in the life of the child.

13. Balance in Teaching Part 1: A lecture given to graduate students in the Touro University Waldorf Masters Course.

14. Balance in Teaching Part 2: The second part of the Touro University lecture.

15. Recessitation: Bullying in the Waldorf School: Bullying is a pervasive, but often ignored part of school life. Eugene Schwartz's provocative video "Recessitation," takes a long and hard look at this issue, and includes footage of a melee on a Waldorf campus

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Videos en Español . . . .
A group of Waldorf parents in Argentina have added Spanish subtitles to three of Eugene’s “Discover Waldorf Education” videos. Click to view.

. . . . and in Portugese: Pedagogia Waldorf - ensinando a ler e escrever
Gustavo Exel, a Brazilian Waldorf school parent, has subtitled Eugene’s “Learning to Read, Part One” video. Click to view and use the “Closed Captions” button on the YouTube screen to read the subtitles.

Videos in Mandarin: Grade One
Created to support the rapidly-growing number of teachers and parents who are developing Waldorf schools in China, these videos present some of the basics of Waldorf education. Click to view.

Videos in Mandarin: Grade Two
Created to support the rapidly-growing number of teachers and parents who are developing Waldorf schools in China, these videos present some of the basics of Waldorf education. Click to view.

A Video in Turkish:
Introducing Waldorf Education
In the Spring of 2006 Eugene Schwartz gave a series of lectures in Izmir, Turkey — the first time that Waldorf education was ever presented in the Turkish language.
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A Video in Lithuanian:
Atraskite Valdorfo ugdymą
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Considering Waldorf: Changing Perspectives in Education
Written by Eugene Schwartz, directed by Sam Russell, and produced by Hagens Recording Studio.
As Waldorf education approaches its 100th anniversary, its schools and methodologies are more widely known and practiced than ever. Waldorf methods are practiced not only in the independent schools in which they originated, but also in public school and home school settings. This is the first true documentary ever filmed about Waldorf education. We examine its successes and its achievements, but also look squarely at the controversies that swirl around Waldorf schools.

Eurythmy and Waldorf Education: Written by Eugene Schwartz, directed by Sam Russell, and produced by Hagens Recording Studio, this excerpt from a full-length DVD presents the most extensive footage of eurythmy in the classroom ever recorded. Commentary by experienced eurythmy teachers complements the beauty, grace, and focus of the students as they learn and perform. This video has been watched by 200,000 viewers.

Eurythmy on the Stage: Written by Eugene Schwartz, directed by Sam Russell, and produced by Hagens Recording Studio, this excerpt from a full-length DVD features the Goetheanum Stage Ensemble in its cutting edge performance of Sofia Gubaidulina’s contemporary piece, “Seven Words.”