subject notebooks

The individuality expressed in the notebooks

In Waldorf schools, teaching is carried out by the teacher, who plans and carries it out. Textbooks are used only for their preparation and planning, and students write their notebooks.

The teacher is free to prepare his classes, and choose or create poems, stories, plays, etc. that help students experience the concepts to be taught, and students write and illustrate their period notebooks with great care, as be pretty. Notebooks without a line are used, which require a greater effort from students to write their texts, exercising their coordination, but also allow students' creativity to be developed, with beautiful drawings illustrating the subjects.

The notebooks express the individuality of each student, and are very important for the development of their willpower, their desire, as their construction requires dedication, very different from the handouts to fill out, which most conventional schools use. When ready, the notebooks represent a victory achieved by the student, they are like small books written by the students on each subject, and are exposed to the community during the annual Pedagogical Exhibition, which all Waldorf schools hold.

Featured image: 5th grade students' notebooks from the Waldorf Aitiara School.