Description
The first in Elizabeth Seward's series on teaching handwork. This complete and comprehensive resource guide is written for handwork teachers but many parents and educators will find it useful as well. Learn how to teach this popular craft - or any subject - to children through storytelling. This approach helps foster personal connection in any educational setting. The teaching of knitting centers around a multi-chapter story with many tips in which you will learn how to teach knitting through the story telling method. Verses are also included. This is a must have book for the classroom handwork teacher!
Introduced are important pedagogical foundations and suggestions for managing a busy handwork classroom. The last chapter shares ideas about selecting patterns and materials. Included are over a dozen favorite patterns the author has developed or modified.
Chapters:
- The Why and How of Stories
- Putting a Story Together
- The Stories (19 total)
- Tech Support for the Handwork Classroom
- Patterns and Projects (including advice of choice of color according to personality and temperament)
- Appendices: The Temperaments, Planning Help, The Secrets of Success in Handwork Class
- Resources
- And more!
Patterns and Projects:
- Bunny
- Pocket Doll
- Pocket Doll Blanket
- Blanket Square
- Butterfly
- Rainbow Ball
- Ankle Warmers
- Fingerless Mittens
- Washcloth
- Animals (Lamb Lion, Mouse, Hamster)
- Flute (or recorder) Case
- Mini-Man/Mini Miss
Teaching Through Stories embodies an unhurried approach to education used successfully for a hundred years in Waldorf schools around the world.
Recommended for adults teaching knitters ages 6 and up.
Softcover; 212 pages, 8.5 x 8.5 inches
Author: Elizabeth Seward
