Waldorf Education

Waldorf education (also known as Steiner education) is a style of instruction based on the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner. Waldorf education is a K-12 curriculum designed around a child's mental and physical development during the stages of childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence.¹ Early childhood learning is largely experiential, imitative and sensory-based; learning in the middle grades is regarded as artistic and imaginative; and the emphasis during the upper grades is on developing intellectual understanding and ethical ideals such as social responsibility.²