HOOMAN AZMI, M.D.,
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What is it you most appreciate about teaching in a private school setting and, in particular, at your school? 1861021
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Randall Bednar, 4th-Grade Teacher and Varsity Baseball Coach Landon School, Bethesda
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Private schools are rarely short on resources. Teachers have everything—textbooks and related materials—they need. And, the schools are keen on staff development. We have access to academic and athletic workshops that enhance our coaching and teaching styles. At Landon, I have the flexibility to focus as much or more on character development as on academics. Education without goodness is not education at all. I enjoy the challenge inherent in shaping and
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developing the character of these young men. Unfortunately, society often sends mixed messages and, as a result, students may make poor decisions or act on impulse or emotion. While my fourth-graders are still in the age of innocence, my high school boys don’t simply accept things. They need to believe in what I’m selling. My challenge is to convince them that just because the right way is sometimes the harder way, they shouldn’t abandon what’s right.
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Jack Petrash, 5th-Grade Teacher Washington Waldorf School, Bethesda
• Our expression of faith in God’s Word and practice of Christian community is intentional and pervasive.
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• Our mission is to educate students who will think biblically and live passionately for Christ.
I so appreciate that our Waldorf School is an independent school that has always allowed me the freedom to design my lessons creatively—to teach science through drawing, math through writing, geography through music, and to incorporate storytelling in all my teaching. I value that our school is concerned not only with the academic well-being of our students, but also with their physical, emotional and spiritual health, concerned
that our students be lively, responsible, interested, caring young people. I value that I work in a school that is not just concerned with educating children for the tests they will take at their desks, but for the tests that they will face in their lives, and that we prepare our students for these unexpected challenges by educating them in a multidimensional way to become resilient and imaginative problem solvers. August 2012