WHAT IS "WALDORF" EDUCATION?
Imagine attending a school where on a typical Monday morning, the preschool children are returning from a walk around the school grounds, rain boots glistening with dew, hands filled with large oak leaves, chestnuts and other various treasures found among the school’s inviting garden pathways. First grade students are settling in to their math block, learning equations through physical movement, then through stories, and then play exercises. The second grade class is writing and illustrating a fable in their lesson books. Upward through the grades, these students, who each year become increasingly confident speaking before their classmates in English, French and German, are developing a deep and rich education fostered in true joy of learning.
It exemplifies how education, in its purest form, is meant to be.
This results in Oakland Steiner School eighth grade students being equally comfortable discussing hydraulics and thermodynamics, Ghandi’s world view and performing Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto on the violin. In an age where standardized testing has supplanted much of education’s heart and soul, Oakland Steiner School exemplifies how education, in its purest form, was meant to be.
It fosters a genuine inner enthusiasm for learning.
A glance into one classroom after the next reveals something here is very different. Absent are jarring bells, buzzing projector screens, cartoony laminated alphabet charts. In their place, elements of nature; music played on violins and recorders; and artwork created by the students reflecting the lessons of the day.
Oakland Steiner School is an independent Waldorf school grounded in the philosophy and methods of Rudolf Steiner, founder of the first Waldorf school in 1919. From pre-school through eighth grade, the Waldorf teachers at Oakland Steiner School are committed to providing an education that deepens the natural joy and wonder of learning.
We offer a comprehensive curriculum in which artistic and creative activities are integrated with scientific and intellectual study to create a balance among the sciences, humanities and arts. This fosters a genuine inner enthusiasm for learning that is the hallmark of Waldorf education.
To learn more about Waldorf education visit Why Waldorf Works
Oakland Steiner School is an independent Waldorf school grounded in the philosophy and methods of Rudolf Steiner, founder of the first Waldorf school in 1919. From pre-school through eighth grade, the Waldorf teachers at Oakland Steiner School are committed to providing an education that deepens the natural joy and wonder of learning.
We offer a comprehensive curriculum in which artistic and creative activities are integrated with scientific and intellectual study to create a balance among the sciences, humanities and arts. This fosters a genuine inner enthusiasm for learning that is the hallmark of Waldorf education.
To learn more about Waldorf education visit Why Waldorf Works
3976 S. Livernois - Rochester Hills, MI 48307 248-299-8755 info@oaklandsteiner.org
