application procedures college guidance college acceptance"Waldorf Students are encouraged to live with self-assurance, a reverence for life, and a sense of service."--Ernest Boyer President, Carnegie Institute for Advancement of Teaching CURRICULUM OVERVIEW:Ninth GradeNinth grade sees the unfolding of the force of intellect. The curriculum is based on presenting polarities, such as tragedy and comedy in the Humanities curriculum, as the foundation of abstract thinking. The ninth grade might be summed up in the question, “What is the world like?" The ninth grade curriculum is sensitive to the tremendous developmental changes students experience and provides the students with the opportunity of seeing their inner experiences reflected back to them in outer phenomena. Tenth Grade
Eleventh GradeBy eleventh grade, students becomes more capable of self reflection, and can move with ease between analytical thinking and imaginative thinking. With a developing power of reason, the student now asks, “Why are things as they are?” and the curriculum allows the student to investigate areas of study not accessible to the experience of the senses (such as quantum theory.) Through this journey students become adept at abstract thinking and reasoning. Twelfth GradeThe twelfth grade curriculum offers students ways to explore their genuine interest in the world and an objective approach to the disparate concerns of our times. The twelfth grade students are better able to integrate their thinking skills with a developing sense of responsibility for their own actions, and characteristically ask the questions: "Who am I? Who is the human being? What or who stands behind the outer play of events and natural phenomena, pulling them together into a synthesizing whole?" |
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