Curriculum Overview
Waldorf education is a path of self-development. It is also training for responsible and enthusiastic participation in the world. The Waldorf curriculum supports the child’s developmental stages, and children experience this curriculum through repetition and rhythm. Beauty and a mood of reverence flow through the lessons and the environment. A variety of academic and arts-integrated experiences develops movement and sensory motor skills—skills in perceiving self and the outside world. This cultivates trust, social skills and consciousness, and spiritual awareness. The social climate and students’ behavior are equal in importance to the students’ academic progress. The individual child is an integral part of the wider school community where adults and children of all ages work together, with the older children acting as role models for the younger ones.
Student Goals
- To have confidence in academic and critical thinking skills
- To value experiential learning and a life-long quest for knowledge
- To honor the role of imagination and play in the awakening of the creative processes
- To exemplify the balance of thinking, feeling and willing
- To know and welcome diversity with compassion and grace
- To cultivate the innate sense of reverence, beauty, wonder and self-purpose
- To recognize the divine both outside and within.
For a description of the Waldorf High School curriculum, click here.
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