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Academics Curriculum Overview
Learning is a cooperative venture at Tandem; the intellectual
curiosity of students is paired with an academically
distinguished faculty. All students have opportunities
to stretch their intellectual capacities and may expect
to be fully challenged by their teachers. Our strong
college preparatory curriculum meets or exceeds admission
requirements of all major institutions of higher learning.
But there is a difference. Learning at Tandem is a
dynamic process of questioning and dialogue, not simply
memorization and reiteration. Teachers impart information,
but they also invite a sense of authorship in their
students. Classroom discussions are modeled on the Socratic
method, encouraging active thinking, listening, and
articulation. Teachers constantly challenge students
to realize their intellectual potential.
Students designed and built their own classroom
building in Applied Physics.
As a small and flexible school, Tandem Friends encourages
and enables students to pursue inventive approaches
to learning. Students can pursue specific interests
through tutorials set up with one or more instructors.
Tandem Friends also gives students room to proceed at
their own rate: a seventh grader may join an upper school
geometry class; a senior may study biology, a course
traditionally offered to 9th graders. Tandem Friends’
teachers continually enrich the curriculum with electives
and tutorials in areas of special interest, such as
media studies, economics, fractal theory, entomology,
and color photography.
An upper school class.
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