Pasadena Waldorf School’s Guided Learning from Home

Pasadena Waldorf School (PWS) Guided Learning from Home is a new remote-only learning program specifically designed for students and families who are homeschooling, or need to stay safe at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, to receive grade and age-appropriate Waldorf and core educational content for their child. The program will be broken into Learning Groups (currently one for Early Childhood students and one for Grades 1-5 students.) Each group will be led by a Learning Guide who presents concepts and grade-appropriate work and activities in a half-day schedule. For each Learning Group, sessions will cover 4 half days of the regular school week and will include synchronous (live) time over Zoom, asynchronous material presented electronically and independent work or play time.

Program Requirements:

For both Learning Groups live instruction will take place over the Zoom platform and families will receive content, worksheets, songs or story files and demonstrations over the Canva platform. Students should have access to a laptop, desktop or high-quality tablet to access these materials.

Parents will receive a ‘materials list’ each week with materials and supplies to gather for the coming lessons. All work materials and supplies will be supplied by the family.

Key Program Features and Info:

• 4 days per week / half day of live interaction and program working remotely with a PWS Learning Guide. Our Learning Guide will be mentored by a PWS teacher and have access to the academic work and content of the PWS class for each student’s age and grade
• Early Childhood and Grades 1-5, Groups
Early Childhood – non-academic program with activities that mirror the PWS in-person Early Childhood program and still leaves plenty of time at home for indoor and outdoor free play.
Grades 1-5 – Focus on core Reading, Writing/Language Arts, and Math, and with shared curriculum from PWS Grades 1-5 programs
• Limited Group Size – maximum ten students per learning group
• The program will cover the basic Reading, Writing, Language Arts, and Math skills as taught in the PWS classes with material curated, presented and monitored by the Learning Guide. Instruction will happen live, and work may happen in live work rooms or independently by the student at other times in the day/week.
• The program will deliver the World Culture and Story content for each grade group as provided by PWS class teachers and presented daily, asynchronously. This content will be worked with by students and their PWS Learning Guide in artistic, writing and project activities.
• The program will include limited Movement and warm-up activities, some Artistic Work and time to work socially with others. The full range of PWS Special Subject classes will not be included in the program.
• Homeschool Affiliation: PWS is a private school with an affidavit so families who are homeschooling children can claim this as a Private Satellite Program (PSP) when submitting their plan or paperwork to their local school district.

For more information, visit https://www.pasadenawaldorf.org/guidedlearning.