Observe The 23 "seed" The Freedom Of Growth And The Resulting Reflection

Waldorf education was created by Rudolf Steiner, a German, according to his own theory---Anthroposophy. Generally speaking, Waldorf education is holistic education which pursuesharmonious development between body and mind and it is people-oriented. This educationadvocates that school should decide what to teach according to the law of consciousdevelopment, so that human’s body, organism, soul and spirit could develop appropriately. Theauthor’s understanding of Waldorf education can be summarized as one words which says it’s theeducation which is closest to human being and their hearts. The author goes into ZhangbaqiuKindergarten with the belief and expectance of Waldorf education.The second part of this paper displays all things happened in ZhangbaqiuKindergarten when the author applied Waldorf education into practice. This paper proved thatZhangbaqiu Kindergarten could also be Waldorf Kindergarten by three sections---listening,waiting and discovering. The listening section shows innocent and na ve of children, theircharacters and the beauty and importance of listening to children by dialogs said by children. Thesecond section writes about how A Kun opened his heart day by day and get along well withother children and teachers in the free and love environment made by early childhood teachers.With A Kun’s change, kindergarten teachers may know how teachers understand and respectchild’s individual difference and change will happen when teachers do well their jobs withunderstanding and respect. Meanwhile, readers will feel the importance of close friendship to AKun’s change. In the section of discovering creation, the author talks about children’simagination and creation in free environment by showing their pictures and their describing oftheir pictures and the change of their thinking and language. In this part, the author also pointsout that why kindergartens children like is not the kind parents like.In the third part, the author made several advices based on the Waldorf educationtheory. First, the mission of kindergarten is to protect children’s growth and development ratherthan to make commercial management. Secondly, the key quality of kindergarten teachers is theability of love and they should company children with love. Thirdly, parents pay much attentionto children’s learning and neglect the law of children’s development, so parents should changetheir mind. And this needs communication between parents and kindergarten teachers. The lastbut not the least one is the reform of education and society.