![]() ![]() Regardless of college track or professional field, these talents and skills are critical to future achievement and success. Waldorf School students develop outstanding listening skills and the confidence to speak with clarity and nuance. In this way, students take an active role in and responsibility for their own learning. The principle behind Main Lessons ise to engage students in the learning process by inspiring them to prepare thoroughly, participate daily, solve problems collaboratively, explore divergent ideas, challenge assumptions, and learn to lead class discussions. ![]() It combines a challenging academic program delivered in an interdisciplinary environment that encourages students to push themselves intellectually. ![]() As they gather their work-essays, drawings, maps, charts, lab reports, lecture notes-into a content rich block book, they make the subject uniquely their own. Main Lesson books created by the students display an increasing degree of independent thinking, sophistication of analysis and beauty in execution as students’ progress through the high school curriculum. The year-long Main Lesson curriculum is divided into nine Main lesson blocks (each about a month long) covering core subjects in the sciences, humanities and mathematics. High School students start their morning with a double period seminar called Main Lesson. The Waldorf School is distinguished by its powerful and transformative approach to education that combines both block schedule (called Main Lesson seminars) and more traditional yearlong coursework.
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