Year 2 ~ 2008-09 ~ Cycle 1

• Earth Currents in relation to the EL and human movement
• First Grade Readiness; assessment and screenings
• Person House Tree Picture: developmental archetypes
• Cross Test & Unfinished Picture
• Expanding Child Observation to Child Study
• Review Handedness Pattern & Reflexes
• Blue/Red Perspective Painting
• Exercises: Ball Twirl, Right Angle Triangle
• Eurythmy

• 16 Keys to Developmental Needs – What to look for in first grade readiness
• Movement Enrichment Lessons addressing developmental needs
• Zoo Exercises to address reflexes (review reflex assessment)
• Posture and Stance of the Teacher
• Balance in Teaching, chapters 1 & 2
• Crossings Midlines: horizontal, vertical, sagital
• Spacial Dynamics

• Twofold Human Being as Archetype – making the relationship to the concept of Blood and Nerve in Medicine, and also making a relationship to the Sense of Well Being and the Blue Moon / Red Sun Assessment, group practise actual assessing each other and taking notes and trying to make sense out of the information they get.  Lecture about the eye and the Vestibular System, relating to the Assessment of Eye Movement and the developmental path of the eye and therapy.
• Blue Moon / Red Sun Assessment
• Secondary Color Painting Exercises, Extra Lesson

• Audrey McAllen’s chapter in Learning Difficulties
• The Four Organs, Walter Holtzapfel.
• The Four Ethers, Ernst Marti
• Knowledge Teaching and the Death of the Mysterious (reading for afterwards)

• Different Types of Learning Disabilities
• Eye and Ear: Auditory and Visual Perception and Processing
• Child Development 7-14 – working with the Four Ethers by Ernst Marti
• Human Ear and Eye Development and Assessment
• Learning Styles: assessing and addressing needs
• Exercises: Activities for the eyes and ears, introduce the Copper Ball Exercise

• Classroom Management – healthy boundaries, discipline, building self-esteem and rhythm in the classroom.
• Care and Development of the 12 Senses – the middle senses
• Balance in Teaching, chapters 3 & 4
• Educational Support for the Whole Class – creating a rhythmical practice over the year.
• Exercises: finger dexterity with cubes, beeswax blue/red balls
• Special Dynamics

• Second Grade Assessments – expanding assessments, beginning to create forms
• Creating lessons: connecting the assessment findings and observation with beginning remedial lessons. How to set up a balanced lesson.
• Recording Assessment and Observations.
• Extra Lesson Exercises: Review Copper Ball and Right Angle Triangle
• Rod Exercises

• Health and Care of Children: Childhood illnesses, overcoming heredity body. The importance and treatment of fevers.
• Eurythmy or Spacial Dynamics
• Practice Time: TBA

• Continue Expanding and Deepening the Assessment
• Interpretation of the Assessment Elements
• Assessment to Lesson
• Report Writing
• Working with Parents and Colleagues
• The Team Approach to Remedial Education
• Review the Right Angle Triangle and Copper Ball Exercises
• Introduce the Case Study document and presentation, and the Mentoring Program for Year Three.