Waldorf Learning Support: Books from Audrey McAllen, Joep Eikenboom NOW AVAILABLE! October 22 2024

For decades through the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, in England, Audrey McAllen studied the indications given by Rudolf Steiner about child development, sleep, breathing, children’s drawings, and the circulation of the blood, the system of our nerves, temperaments, and much more. She worked these into specific exercises and specific class exercises to give strength to the therapeutic work made possible by a Waldorf class and classroom.

Ingun Schneider worked with Audrey McAllen for fifteen year to merge her own in depth experiences in the classroom with the knowledge of Audrey McAllen. Ingun has founded Waldorf Learning Support (WLS) to help teachers comprehend the power of accomplishing exercises with a whole class that helps all children to master specific capacities to aid in a more complete incarnation and a harmonious blending of therapeutic activities into a whole class experience.

The tendency in the contemporary culture is to isolate children who are struggling with ordinary learning in a classroom setting. While exercises of support for individuals such as these children is also a possibility, work with a whole class to utilize the social intentions of the ideals behind the building of a class community and the cultivation of care, one for another, possible in that class community. What is excellent support for a struggling child become good for the whole class of children.

Waldorf is very excited to be selected by WLS to publish and distribute the books that form the body of the Extra Lesson work, developed over the last fifty years. With help from Steiner Books, Waldorf Publications now can off these books for supporting teachers in remedial care as Waldorf Learning Support develops an all new edition of The Extra Lesson:
The Extra Lesson by Audrey McAllen
Sleep by Audrey McAllen

This Extra Lesson book is the original edition by Audrey McAllen and will be replaced soon with a new, expanded edition including Ingun Schneider’s edits and additions out of the long-time work done developing ideas. This edition is the last of the original stock remaining.

These books offer a treasure trove of ideas for balancing and supporting difficulties in learning children have. Thoughtful, experientially-based practices are all through these valuable manuscripts with explanations about why as well as how. Ingun is working to revise the books to include her own research and exercises based on her work with Audrey McAllen.