See the results of the Parent Involvement Survey that we ran May-June 2017 Trillium Waldorf School (TWS) is in the process of developing a parent involvement/volunteer program, and ran a parent involvement survey in June 2017 as part of its in-depth review of parental involvement at the school (NOTE: In this survey “parent” includes guardians). …
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Waldorf schools offer a developmentally appropriate, experiential approach to education. They integrate the arts and academics for children from early childhood through grade twelve. Waldorf Education℠ aims to inspire life-long learning in all students and to enable them to fully develop their unique capacities. Founded in the early 20th century, Waldorf Education is based on …
Waldorf education cultivates three principal faculties in children: thinking, feeling and willing. As such, it is often described as education for the “head, heart and hands.” “Head” refers to the ability to think clearly and independently. “Heart” refers to the capacity for feeling emotionally connected to one’s work and the world at large. “Hands” refers …
Our children learn to create with their “Head, Heart and Hands” Read More »
We know that education is more than the acquisition of information, rigid academic curricula, and high stakes testing. In fact, the world is changing so rapidly that no one can really predict what information our children will need to know in the future. However, it is clear that intellectual flexibility, creative thinking, independent judgment, moral …
Our Curriculum: broad, comprehensive, vibrant and academically vigorous Read More »
Special Subjects At Trillium Waldorf School there are six Special Subject teachers who are specialists in their own field. These teachers work closely with the Grades Faculty to synchronize and integrate their work with topics being taught during Main Lesson. Woodwork Weekly woodwork class begins in fourth grade. Students first learn to complete simple shapes …
Building resiliency for a changing world (through Special Subjects like woodworking) Read More »
Waldorf schools offer a developmentally appropriate, experiential approach to education. They integrate the arts and academics for children from early childhood through grade twelve. Waldorf Education℠ aims to inspire life-long learning in all students and to enable them to fully develop their unique capacities. Founded in the early 20th century, Waldorf Education is based on the …
Trillium Waldorf School is part of an educational community of more than 2500 schools and kindergartens that circle the globe. Among the largest and fastest growing educational approaches in the world, Waldorf schools have served students in over 70 countries for 90 years. While each Waldorf school is independent, all share an approach that is …
In a Waldorf elementary school, the curriculum is presented through extended “main lessons” which focus on one subject in depth. This approach differs from other instructional approaches that allot equal time to every subject. In a Waldorf elementary school, the approximately two-hour-long main lesson “ties one topic to as many disciplines as possible”. The main …
Our teachers integrate visual, textural and performing arts into their main lessons Read More »
Humans accomplish much of what they do in collaboration with others. In ontogeny, children’s earliest abilities to collaborate develop in two basic steps. First, 1- and 2-year-olds learn to form with others joint goals and joint attention–which include an understanding of the individual roles and perspectives involved. Second, as they approach their third birthdays, children’s …
Collaboration encourages equal sharing in children. Read More »