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Passionate about the subjects they teach and practitioners in their fields, the Waterford Faculty members are dedicated to their students. They are insightful, bold and immersed in the process of teaching. Their credentials are impeccable. They come from Brown, Swarthmore, Yale and Stanford, Brigham Young University, the University of Chicago and the University of Utah, Cornell and Harvard, to name a few. They come to teach in an environment that places knowledge first: grasping, gaining, sharing and absorbing it, enjoying it, finding it elevating. Waterford teachers draw upon that scholarship as they discern the needs of their students, contribute in their field of study, reflect on what they too are learning.
The Waterford Faculty is an association of colleagues who are confident in their subjects, caught up in their teaching, free to develop the depth of their curriculum. They center study on academics and they give recognition to strengths of character that are a power of their own—courtesy, patience, gratitude, dependability, honesty, integrity.
Lower Schools lay claim to a whole corner of the campus yet students march about as if all the acreage was theirs alone. These faculty work within their classes, within their subjects yet their vision reaches to the upper grades. Specialists bring expertise to science, computers, physical education, drama, art, music, and dance. Waterford's distinctive ongoing research in reading and math puts the teachers out front in what is working and why. Two libraries bring books and media to the classrooms campus-wide. Middle and Upper School Faculty teach in both schools which ensures rigor and quality at each level of learning. Science and math have their own building, their own arena to calculate and dissect. Two gymnasiums house a constant stream of athletic activity. Humanities classes are clustered as are foreign languages. Students change buildings as they changes classes. Art teachers introduce and expand a student's ability to see, whether with a palette, a pottery wheel or a simple pastel. The music faculty add strings, instrumentals, brass and woodwinds, chorus and quartets to their repertoire of teaching. The photography teachers train eyes through a lens and in the dark. Upper School academic electives allow teachers to explore with students Dostoevsky and Homer's Iliad, geology and anthropology, the art of portraiture and twentieth-century drama.
Teachers teach what they are good at, what they love. They teach with vitality and commitment to their discipline. They are mentors to their students, they model balance and commitment, integrity and firm resolve. | 
