Resource Teacher's Developmental Exercise Manual

Waldorf Resource Teacher Training Program

Association for a Healing Education

Wirebound

$24.00

What an amazing resource this little book is! It holds the instructions for 33 developmental exercises and their variations, discusses what the purpose of each exercise is, how often to do it, what sorts of observations are helpful and includes a space for your notes.

Additionally there is a beautiful and highly useful introduction by Mary Jo Orestito offering insight into the nature, origins and goals of the exercises and a section on "Teacher Tips for Many Ages and Various Situations."

The potential of this simple tool nearly takes my breath away -- with it, teachers and parents will have at hand the means to help their students and children move into the world more firmly, develop their capacities more fully. The Association for a Healing Education is to be commended for bringing this exceptional resource into print.

Contents:

• Dedication to Ruth Nilsson
  
• Introduction by Mary Jo Oresti
  
• Teacher Tips for Many Situations
  
• Blind Man's Bluff Forms
  
• Run, Hop Numbers
  
• Animals Out West
  
• Clogging Numbers with the Feet
  
• Form Drawing Homework
  
• Group Letters in Space
  
• Memory and Concentration
  
• Multiplicaiton Table Forms in Movement
  
• Blind Walk
  
• Nature Creep
  
• 20 Creeping Games
  
• much, much more
  
• Bibliography

Resource Teacher's Developmental Exercise Manual II

Association for a Healing Education

Spiral Bound

$30.00

The gift continues! I have characterized the original manual as the single most valuable book we sell -- it is simple to follow, genuinely healing, and even in the hands of untrained non-specialists, really cannot be misapplied. The choices for creative, fun and healing exercises that characterize the first developmental exercise manual have just increased 100%!

Contents:

• Dedication
• Introduction by Mary Jo Oresti
• Exercises for the Whole Class
  • Individual Practice in the Classroom
  • Memory Star Exercise
  • Incoming First Grade Exercises
  • Jumpers
  • Foot Clapping
  • Red Shoes, Blue Shoes
  • Adzuki Bean Bags and "Polar Bears"
  • Sound Train: Experiencing Phonemes
  • Writing with the Feet
  • Body Geography Through the Grades
  • Two Variations on Exercises for Reading and Writing
• Exercises for Individual Sessions
  • Marble Relay
  • First Aid for a Bad Day
  • Magic Scarves; Laughing Scarves
  • Water Works
  • Gross Motor Lower Sense Journey/Obstacle Course
  • Balance Beam Grammar
  • Balance Beam Phonics
  • Making a Movie
  • Treasure Hunt
  • The Butterfly Dance: Moving Spirals with Red and Blue
  • Mix a Pancake
  • Over and Under the Bridge
  • Through the Tunnel
  • Bean Bag Catapult
• The Stations Approach
• Glossary of Movement, Growth and Consciousness Resources
  

Care Group Manual
A Practical Approach

Compiled by Mary Jo Oresti and Rachel Ross

Spiral Bound

$20.00

When school seeks to assist a "troubled child", often a Care Group is formed. This group of adults works together to share their expertise on behalf of truly understanding and helping the child or children entrusted to them.

There are now Care Groups in many schools, each with its own mission, reflective of its own community. Care Group Manual - A Practical Approach presents three such groups, their experiences and discoveries. You will find practical ideas, guidelines, processes and some forms you can use in your own work.

To my eye, this is truly a manifestation of Christ's (Love's) promise that, "When two or more are gathered, there will I be."

Contents

• History of Care Groups and the AHE
  
• Care Groups Enhance Our Work as Educators
  
• The Seven Planetary Qualities in the Care Group Dynamics
  
• The Remedial Class in the First Free Waldorf School
  
• Introductino to Child Observation and Child Study
  
• Thoughts on Child Studies and Care Group Work
  
• Child Observation Format
  
• Child Study Format
  
• Aspects of Child Study Work in Faculty Meetings
  
• The College Meeting in Camphill Schools
  
• Faculty Meeting Child Study Process
  
• Examples of Child Studies from Care Groups
  
• Care Group Survey - Finding the Needs
  
• Child Study Report Record and Verse
  
• Procedure for Initiating a Care Group
  
• Remedial Support
  
• Care Group Referral Form
  
• Educational Resource Support: Six-Week Report
  
• Bibliography and Suggested Themes for Care Group Study

The Art of a Healing Education
Compilation Series, Volume 1

Bruno Callegaro, MD; Jan Gorton, MD; Joop van Dam, MD; Mary Jo Oresti; Cornelius Pietzner

Spiral Bound

$15.00

The Association for a Healing Education has gathered together some of their most valued articles contributed over the past few years. These articles shine for their combination of depth and practicality. Anyone interested in educational therapy will find much inspiration and much to ponder from each of them.

Contents:

• Challenges to the Incarnation of the Ego - Bruno Callegaro, MD
  
• An Interview with Dr. Andrea Rentea - Jan Gorton, MD
  
• Out of which Forces Does the Healing of Man Arise? - Joop van Dam, MD
  
• An Interview with Audrey McAllen - Mary Jo Oresti
  
• Working with the Pedagogical Law - Cornelius Pietzner

AHE News - November 2006
Healing Our Children

$8.35

Contents:

• President's Message
  
• Healing Our Children with Attentional, Emotional and Learning Challenges - Susan R Johnson, MD
  
• Report from Spain - Antonio Adánez
  
• Clinical Study on Children with ADD from Sao Paolo, Brazil - Maria Eugenia Obiniski
  
• A Technique for Parenting - Lee Sturgeon Day
  
• Making a Difference #2 - Remedial - Summer 2006 - Kyle Morton
  
• International Extra Lesson Trainings 2006/07 - Rachel Ross, MSEd
  
• The Seven Life Processes in Relationship to Learning: More Thoughts from the July '06 Conference - from notes by Connie Helms and Jocelyn Arseneau

AHE News - November 2005
TRAUMA: Ways to Help

$12.95

Contents:

• President's Message
  
• Adjunct Therapies for Traumatized or Stressed Children - Ross Rentea, MD
  
• Short Term Activities - Mary Jo Oresti
  
• Treating Trauma with Eurythmy - An interview with Susann Eddy, class & therapeutic eurythmist
  
• Sandplay: Gateway to the Soul - Elizabeth Baring, ATR-BC, NCPsyA
  
• Callot Painting Therapy: Trauma Issues with a Young Child - Martha Loving Orgain, MFA, CPT
  
• Shock and Trauma - Mariola Strahlberg, founder of Shining Mountain Children's Center
  
• Case Study - Mary Jo Oresti
  
• Turning Our Minds to Meditations - two verses by Adam Bittleston
  
• Good News from Ireland
  
• Santa Cruz Parent Group
  
• News from Lifeways
  
• The Integrity of the Extra Lesson
  
• Deepening Our Work in the Extra Lesson
  
• AHE News
  
• Question & Answer from the Road: What is the difference between a strong willed child and a willful child. - Rachel Ross
  
• New Board Member: Connie Helms

AHE News - May 2005
Trauma and Shock

$12.95

Contents:

• President's Message
  
• Good News from Brazil!
  
• Wonderful News from Spain!
  
• Question & Answer: Can we use The Extra Lesson with young children? - Rachel Ross
  
• A Fresh Look at Learning Issues - Dr. Dee Joy Coulter
  • Arousel and Alertness Issues
  • Attention and ADD/ADHD Issues
  • Look and Listen: Visual and Auditory Processing Issues
    
• Recommended Reading
  
• AHE Seminar January 2005
  
• What Ails Thee? The Nature and Treatment of Trauma - Dr. andrea Rentea
  
• Turning Our Minds to Meditations - two verses by Adam Bittleston

AHE News - April 2004
Language and the Word

$7.95

Contents:

• President's Message
  
• What Is Reading? - Linda Atamian
  
• A Glimpse of Chirophonetic Therapy - Bonnie River
  
• What Is Chirophonetics? - Maria Eugenia Obniski
  
• Seven Modes of the Speech Organism - Musings on Languages - Mary Jo Oresti
  
• Question & Answer: How do learning styles impact reading, writing & spelling? - Rachel Ross
  
• AHE Waldorf Education Remedial Teacher Program at Sunbridge
  
• Language and Movement - An Exerpt from the Book Language and Learning
  
• Bibliography

AHE News - November 2003
Feet and Hands - our Instruments to Finding Our Way in the World

$7.95

Contents:

• President's Message
  
• Children's Hands: What do we observe today? - Ingun Schneider
  
• Thinking with the Hands: The power of craft work in gaining control over impulsivity - Bonnie River-Bento
  
• Treatment of the Feet - Dr. Andrea Rentea
  
• Happy Feet make a Happy Child: The importance of finding the right indoor shoes at home and in school - Rachel Ross
  
• Developing a proper handgrip and the use of the block crayon - Elizabeth Auer
  
• Question & Answer from the road: The Rhythm of Sleeping and Waking - Why is it so difficult for some children to fall asleep at night and for others it is a struggle wake up in the morning? What can we do to help these children? - Rachel Ross
  
• "Working Remedially in the Classroom" - A Sound Circle Symposium
  
• Report from Central Region Alumni

AHE News - April 2003
Focus on Early Childhood

$7.95

Content:

• President's Message
  
• Opening Message from Ann Pratt
  
• Summer Conference: Making a Difference - A conference for alumni, class and kindergarten teachers
  
• Strengthening the Lower Senses: Movement Enrichment with Young Children - Laurie Clark and Nancy Blanning
  
• Remedial Work in Early Childhood
  
• Meet Your Board Members: Mary Brauer
  
• Alumni News - Meeting the Reflexes
  
• Autumn Movement Journey - Composed by Nancy Blanning
  
• Babies and Toddlers: View from the Bridge - Kate Gage

AHE News - December 2002
The Reflexes

$8.35

Content:

• President's Message
  
• AHE Graduates Gather to Study the Reflexes - Mary Brauer
  
• Alumni at Work - Mary Brauer
  
• Questions from Our Readers: In Extra Lesson, what is "the rhythm of 12" which is so often spoken about? and How can you help a child who is cramped in his or her writing?
  
• Anxiety and Restlessness: The development of attachment and movement in childhood, and their pathology - Arne Schmidt
  
• Remedial Insights for Early Childhood Educators
  
• Book Review: If Kids Just Came with Instructions Sheets! by Svea Gold
  
• Meet Your Board Members: Rachel Ross
  
• "Making a Difference" - July 2003 Conference at Rudolf Steiner College

AHE News - Spring 2002
Remedial Education Today

$7.95

Contents:

• President's Message
  
• Remedial Education Today - Mary Jo Oresti
  
• Questions from Our Readers: Do you have suggestions for helpng a child who has mixed dominance: everything is right except the hand? and Do you have any suggestions for working with "small headed" children?
  
• Hungary Update
  
• Puppetry Announcement
  
• Alumni Represtation from All Three Cycles
  
• Meet Your Board Members: Joan Treadaway
  
• The IELA [International Extra Lesson Association] Begins
  
• Why IELA-A [Americas]? Why Now?
  
• "Extra Lesson" A Case History - Monica Ellis

AHE News - Summer 2001
Care Groups

$7.95

Contents:

• President's Message
  
• The Educational Support Circle at Shining Mountain Waldorf School - Carol Carlson
  
• Board Biographies: Mary Jo Oresti
  
• About Artemesia
  
• Aspects of Youth Guidance - Richard Neal/Cornelius M Pietzner
  
• Book Announcement: Working with Anxious, Nervous, and Depressed Children - Mary Jo Oresti
  
• The Child Conference: And Interview with Norma Lindenberg - Joan Treadaway
  
• Brain Development and Waldorf Education: A Workshop Given by Dr. Dee Joy Coulter - Eileen Frechette adn Ed Gutfreund

AHE News - Winter/Spring 2001
Autism

$8.35

Contents:

• President's Message
  
• A Letter on Autism and Vaccinations - Jane Bick
  
• A Homeopathic View - Lauren Fox, MA
  
• Bibliotherapy List - Joan Ingle
  
• Work Arising Out of Anthroposophy - A report from a study group on Autism
  
• . . . and then the stewardess says, "Welcome to Holland!" - What Is It Like to Raise a Child with a Disability?
  
• Musings on Autism - Dr. Dee Coulter
  
• Book Review: Autism - A Holistic Approach reviewed by Michele Pullen
  
• Book Review: Views from Our Shoes revied by Joan Ingle
  
• Helping Children Overcome Learning Difficulties - Kathryn Humphrey