The Introduction of ShanFeng Waldorf School
A school with no social background, a school for all to study.
~ Rudolf Steiner
In 2015, ShanFeng Waldorf School became the first public experimental school after the implementation of Three-Type Acts of Experimental Education examined by the Ministry of Education. Besides, the school cooperates with the National Institute of Education for supporting the development of curriculum desings.
ShanFeng Waldorf School is a school with no textbooks or endless exams. Children turn their learning into hand-made workbooks. Qualitative assessments, like the detailed descriptions of observed behaviors are the ways to record children’s learning. Besides, based on children’s different stages of development, courses like agriculture, architecture, outdoor challenges, plays and dramas, and other specific lessons are offered. Through the curriculum, children develop their willing, feeling and thinking power in a healthy and balanced way.
The tuition fee in ShanFeng Waldorf School makes no difference from other elementary schools, which attracts families around the country, including Japanese family or children of Taiwanese businessmen, to move to Yunlin County. Moreover, the school cares about disadvantaged families. Currently, of all the students, 18% of them are from single family or new-immigrant family, and 12% of them are specially needed. The number of the students grows 4 times higher after the school transformed into the Waldorf School, from 25 pupils to 100 pupils.
山峰華德福學校簡介
一間不分社會背景，所有人都可以上的學校。<魯道夫‧施泰納>
2015年山峰華德福實驗小學，通過教育部審議，成為實驗三法實施後，台灣第一所公立實驗學校，並與國家教育研究院進行實驗合作，這裡上課沒有傳統的課本，也沒有寫不完的考卷，孩子將其所學轉成自製的課本，評量也是老師用文字紀錄孩子的成長。學校依照孩子不同的發展階段，給予農耕、建築、戶外挑戰、戲劇和專題等課程，透過課程讓孩子在意志、情感及思考三方面，能健康且平衡的發展。
因以公立型態辦學，學費與一般學校差異不大，吸引全國各地家庭遷入雲林就讀，包含日本家庭、台商子弟，另外學校也特別關注弱勢家庭學生，目前單親新移民比例 18 %、特殊需求學生12 %，學生人數從轉型前25名變為100名，成長4倍。