Educating Children For The Journey: Jack Petrash at TEDxRockCreekPark

[@Sirenuse66]

Wonderful to hear a teacher address the different ways children learn, and to acknowledge that their boredom in the classroom is not always their fault.

[@fionamhavlish9117]

My daughter loves Waldorf school as do her classmates! They are creative, innovative, not afraid to ask questions or to be themselves. They still love stories and playing outside!! Me too:) She is in her senior year!! I wish this education was open to everyone!!

[@EyeGuzzle]

So great to hear a voice of (field tested!) experience from this Waldorf teacher's perspective. Its especially valuable that he identifies the different kinds of learners that kids can be--as well as defining the different ways that we learn: through the doing, the thinking and the feeling experiences that make up a rich integrated approach to education.

[@annewotring5225]

Excellent TEDx talk full of concrete recommendations about how we can transform education, told with engaging classroom stories by a master teacher. Thank you!

[@avkwonder]

Our child goes to Meadowbrook Waldorf School in Richmond, RI and it is truly a wonderful place!

[@sallybnyc]

What my daughter received from her Waldorf Education is an intact and life affirming imagination! She solves her life problems with integrity, imagination and confidence! I directly attribute those qualities in her to her Waldorf schooling. A huge thank you to the teachers who helped her as well as other students on a same or similar path.

[@michaelhall9467]

Well done, Mr. Petrash. Lots of experience, well used.

[@mws47]

We were lucky enough to be able to provide our children with a Waldorf Education (K - 12). They are adults now and they have thanked us for sacrifices we made in order to provide that.. In college when they shared the things they had done in their school, they often had their class mates respond, "I wish I had had that in my school." Waldorf education is not perfect and is not for everyone. A lot still rides on the skill of the individual teachers. If Waldord School is handy, take a look

[@melaniemeyer9854]

This is why I am so glad I send my girls to a Waldorf school!

[@lyallswim9820]

Loved the talk. All three of my children are different learners, and he described each type that they are perfectly. Hopefully those running full steam ahead on Common Core or NCLB or whatever the most recent standards cookie-cutter gov't ed program will take a look at this and hit the pause button and broaden their view.

[@sarahg784]

this was so useful for me as a mom, already seeing these 3 distinctions in my own children- active, emotion, and thoughtful needs in learning. I am frightened by the focus on core curriculum and lecturing for kindergarteners. We we re so thank ful for a preK teacher who understands that intelligience includes creativity but more and more the standards of facts needed to be memorized is leaving out the collaboration and problem solving needed for true learning. our kids are missing out on living

[@brittacorones4774]

Thank you for expressing this so clearly. It is truely insightful and deeply educational. 👍🏻

[@annewotring5225]

Check out The Nova Institute. Jack is the director of this non-profit that bridges these excellent educational methods into mainstream.

[@shersher3872]

I hope my daughter will get to go to a Waldforf school one day!

[@KAKrueger]

I only wish that he modeled what he spoke about. Making people become active in the process of learning. Offering visual, auditory and kinetic learning practices for his audience to participate... and thereby fully learn...

[@chrischarlwood]

This is a great and very clear explanation of how children learn. Waldorf does make the best attempt to use the whole brain in each lesson, and try to teach starting each day with the head, hands, and then heart. I've tried to summarize some benefits here at Rootparenting called 5 Unique Benefits of Waldorf Education

[@maryguokas8018]

I always describe Waldorf as it teaches children how to learn. With guidance of what to learn.They get a sense of exploration and discovery that builds a love or learning.

[@ZoeAmigu]

great! that's what our education has to do next: to change... and to save our kids!

[@VSE4me1]

Waldorf is an excellent educational system, but the administration by consensus system in Waldorf schools leaves a lot to be desired. I have had experience with three different Waldorf schools, and each one had problems.

[@Marcmv329]

I am grateful my child is in a public Waldorf school. He gets a lot of outside time and gets to use his imagination. Before he was accepted at this charter school he was at a magnet public school and he hated it. He did a lot of sitting and a lot of TV watching which he did not like since he has grown up with little screen time. Kindergartners need to be active and letting their imagination run wild as well as learning to socialize. My only issue with the public/charter school is the class size is too big, 18 to 20 kids and too many children that have behavioral problems and they are very disruptive and cause other children anxiety. And also with Covid I don’t agree with young children wearing masks. I heard that his charter school wants to add high school but in my opinion before they do they should improve the elementary and middle school program and have their teachers, employees, and substitutes get more training in Waldorf.

[@8mocka]

really great

[@mobildetroit]

There is no way in hell I would send my child to any other kind of school then a Waldorf school. I refuse to be responsible for stunting my childs brain development.

[@NaVponce]

You are lucky... not everybody can take that option... at least in my country it is too expensive. I cant afford it...

[@MartaMajorCNP]

GOD BLESS HIM! :)

[@BexLP]

I'm going to be the first person to state that honestly found this talk washy, and lacked a compelling narrative. It's not that I disagree that kids need to be educated in different ways, and need play and art, I just feel that that is only a small slice of the holistic education they need and that his message was unfocused and vague, it would have benefitted from some kind of aim and, frankly, demonstrated evidence to back up whatever point he was trying to get across, because it lacked clarity.

[@merry8647]

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