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Educating the Whole Child

Lessons are brought to life by integrating listening, doing, thinking and speaking, connecting numerous academic disciplines with hands-on experience that engage your child’s mind and heart in profound ways.

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The Right Thing At the Right Time

Approaches and tools can vary widely,  and are matched to students’ needs and capacities at every age and stage of development. Waldorf curriculum is designed to bring the right subject at the right developmental moment, and is complemented by teachers who create opportunities for students to experience deeply what they are learning. Students encounter subject matter experientially, through story, movement, drawing, painting, writing, speaking, inventing, acting, sculpting, etc.; they live the subject. This approach gives the student a profound experience of the subject matter that lasts a lifetime.

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How to Think, Not What to Think

A lifelong love of learning is more valuable than memorizing a book of facts. Creativity is fostered. It helps build the developmental foundation on which dynamic innovative and analytic thinking are built. Teachers help students develop skills - observation, reflection and judgement - that empower students to build their understanding. This forms the basis of thoughtfulness and critical thinking, giving students the confidence to make sense of what they experience in the real world.

 

Appreciation of Individuality

Students are accepted and valued by their teachers and peers for their unique talents and potential. Since every child learns differently, teachers tailor lessons to meet a variety of learning styles and provide individual support to meet each child’s needs.

All children are given concrete feedback and progress is monitored against their unfolding capacities, rather than against other students. This allows students to develop skills and capacities with confidence. Every week the staff meet to discuss individual students and create opportunities to enhance student learning.