The Jardim do Monte School as a physical, human and cultural space, realizing its project through Waldorf Pedagogy, has the following pedagogical characteristics:
1. The various areas of learning are designed and managed to meet the educational needs inherent in the overall development of students in each age group.
2. Any content integrates the theoretical and practical aspects of each piece of knowledge equally, so as to integrate into the life experience of the learners the life experience of those in whose midst each piece of knowledge sprang and grew.
3. The Waldorf pedagogical dynamic is based on an articulated internal structure, i.e. one that allows for the interdisciplinary treatment of knowledge in such a way as to make its intercultural context accessible to young people – both at the level of individuals and at the level of historical and natural epoch(s) and/or events – which leads to an understanding of the current meaning of the evolution of the earth and humanity
4. A method based on a biographical-pedagogical approach, i.e. each student is seen first and foremost as a person, with a history and unique life circumstances. It is in this universe that learning is developed in a harmonious and integrative way, as a way of serving the biography.
5. A physical space where the interior and exterior interact as sources of knowledge, “laboratories” for experimentation, places full of real situations, where the micro and the macro can be experienced as a unifying whole of Man and the Earth.
6. Internal organization and daily management on the part of adults that can build up their pupils’ sense of self and others.
7. An essentially formative assessment that describes the child’s evolutionary process, valuing the achievements made in the areas of school knowledge, socio-affective development and ethical and spiritual foundations.