The Detroit Waldorf School offers a developmentally appropriate, balanced approach to education that skillfully integrates the arts and academics for children from preschool through eighth grade. Waldorf teachers blend creative activities with scientific and intellectual study to create a balance between the sciences, humanities and arts.
The curriculum includes two world languages, fine and practical arts, music, rigorous academics and physical education.
The Detroit Waldorf School offers a developmentally
appropriate, balanced approach to education that skillfully
integrates the arts and academics for children from preschool
through eighth grade. This unique educational philosophy encourages
a lifelong love of learning. The Waldorf model was developed
in 1919 by Rudolf Steiner. Today, it is one of the fastest
growing educational movements in the United States.The goal of
Waldorf education is to enable students to realize their unique
potential and meet the challenges of the changing world we live in.
Waldorf teachers blend creative activities with scientific and
intellectual study to create a balance between the sciences,
humanities and arts. The curriculum includes two world languages,
fine and practical arts, music, and physical education.Young
students develop a strong foundation for academic learning and
creative thinking through a play-based curriculum. Older
students are met with an academically rigorous program that
prepares them for creative, critical thinking and individual
initiative beyond high school.
Decades ago private schools could have been accused of being elitist. You had to have money to attend. The student populations were fairly homogeneous. Fortunately that has changed.
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