The 5 Tools for Planning Success will help you get organized as a Waldorf teacher, putting into place the processes and habits for good planning and organization.

Learn more about the recommended items to purchase for your teacher binder. 

The PDF has the Tools and a Shopping list for your school supplies.

The Community Calendar helps you to identify any pre-scheduled school breaks and special events that will effect your teaching rhythms.

The Schedule Outline Tool allows you to view the year on the basis of weeks. In this lesson you will create your Template for the current year.

In this video I will walk you through the process of using the Schedule Outline Template to plan your block calendar.

In this lesson you will learn several additional uses for the Schedule Outline Tool, including planning your weekly lessons.

The Block Calendar Tool was created to help you to plan and pace out each of your blocks.

A short message from your instructor about Block Planning.

This tool is used for a process of Creative Brainstorming, where you bring together all of your resources for each block and begin to imagine what the block could become.

Learn about the different Daily Planner Tools in the PDF and choose the one that is right for you.

This lesson will help you to make the perfect Daily Planner in MS Word.

Once you have chosen or created your Daily Planner Tool, you will need to photocopy enough pages for each main lesson you will be teaching throughout the year.

During this lesson you will be shown how to assign the daily planner pages to the days in each of the blocks and how to bring your block planning to a deeper level.

Pre-made grading books did not serve my needs so I created this dynamic, changeable grid and was able to adapt it to several different uses. 

Create your own Grid Tools by creating and modifying tables in MS Word.

Let's figure out how many Grid Tool templates you will need to use during each of your different blocks.

In this lesson, we assemble your binder to include all your tools and planning materials.

Rudolf Steiner tells a story about the planning processes of three different teachers.

In this section we will consider the relationships we have with the parents and guardians of our students.

Create community and a shared experience among the parents to build connections and strengthen the whole class.

Provide insight for the parents into the meaning behind what occurs in the classroom, and make way for a different type of relationship.

Need some help selecting resources for conversation and study in your parent meetings? Here are four options to consider.

Strengthen your relationships with the parents and guardians of the students in your class by establishing a routine for regular communication.

Set up a framework for observing our students, assessing their completed work and recording their progress.

Martyn Rawson’s article discusses how to assess and evaluate our students in an appropriate and effective way.

In this lesson I share with you my ideas about preparing lesson objectives and learning outcomes.

The process of assessment has four stages: development of objectives and expectations, observation of the students, the creation of a rubric, and documentation.

Take some time to consider your own cognitive and soul organization and understand how it may effect your work in the classroom.

Learn about the Human Being from an Anthroposophical perspective.

Learn more about the Executive Function Skills and how they relate to teaching and personal organization.

Take the time to assess your own Executive Function Skills.

In this final module, we will bring our attention to reporting student progress: including Parent-Teacher conferences, Mid-year reports and Year-end reports.

Consider the two main ways that we provide feedback to parents about student progress: parent-teacher conferences and report writing.

Similar to pedagogical stories, report verses carry within them the thoughts, imaginations and ideas that are healing and supportive to the growing child.