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In the Great Barrington Waldorf High School, we offer students a unique, rigorous college-preparatory curriculum that inspires purposeful activity, earnest involvement and clear thinking.

Class teachers give way to teacher specialists who lead the students through a rich and varied array of morning seminars, ranging from thermodynamics to Shakespeare, from trigonometry to the history of the modern world.

In addition to the seminar subjects, the students work through a college preparatory curriculum in mathematics, English, and a foreign language. Music, drama, eurythmy, fine arts, orchestra, physical education, and practical arts provide our teenagers with additional opportunities for creative expression and demanding activity. In addition, high school students are required to do community service.

All students receive individual attention and guidance, and their academic and personal progress is thoughtfully supervised. Our students are fully prepared for the most demanding universities and colleges. Teachers and parents are active partners in the learning process and in guiding children through the joys and struggles of adolescence.

A class advisor provides parents with information about curriculum and programs, serves as the liaison with the school, and conducts the mid-year parent-teacher conferences. Parents may also communicate with their child's teachers at any time.

Waldorf Education
The school is part of the largest independent, non-sectarian school movement in the world.

Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian philosopher, founded a school based on his ideas in Stuttgart, Germany (1919) for the children of workers at a Waldorf cigarette factory. This was the first of what has become a world-wide network of "Waldorf " or "Steiner " schools.

Waldorf education seeks to develop students' capacities by taking advantage of their natural learning processes: curiosity, thinking, and action. High school courses address the most basic questions about the nature of the human being, society, and the natural and the mechanical/technical world.

There is no handbook or set of rules to develop a school, only suggestions from Steiner. Each school is established independently by parents and teachers, and is self-governing. The Association of Waldorf Schools of North America is an umbrella organization that helps to foster Waldorf education in the United States.

For more information about Waldorf Education go to www.whywaldorfworks.org.

"The Waldorf School I have observed celebrates the uniqueness of each child, blends a rich curriculum in creative ways and sensitively evaluates student progress along the full range of human talent. Waldorf students are encouraged to live with self-assurance, a reverence for life and a sense of service."