Welcome to Taipei Municipal Tianmu Elementary

1. Welcome to Taipei Municipal Tianmu Elementary Good Morning

2. Brief Introduction

3. Profile of our school • Founded on the first of August, 1981. The total number of classes is 84, and 3 classes of special ed. There are 162 of the faculty and around 2180 of students. It is a school of large size. • The total campus lands are 19524 square meters. Our campus is located on the foot of Yangming mountain and along the riverside of HuangXi, near busy Tian Mu downtown, while it is tranquil. • We keep close relationship with our neighbor - Tian Mu Junior High School, by sharing resources, communicating frequently, and collaborating with each other. Besides, we are also partner schools.

4. Principles of running our school • Implement the upmost principle: students first. • Provide administrative service of teaching first. • Develop safe and happy environment. • Design multiple character-fitted learning contents. • Make promising and proper administration decision. • Facilitate parent-teacher coordination relationship. • Foster democratic and open atmosphere. • Mold refined and graceful campus culture. • Establish a vision of ruling and flourishing together.

5. Direction of development • Promote the quality of school education. • Advance teachers’ professional abilities. • Develop multiple learning channels. • Encourage parents’ participation.

6. Promote the quality of school education • Implement the research development in curricula and teaching. • Create a refined school teaching environment.

7. Advance teachers’ professional abilities. • Plan the training courses to advance teachers’ ability on information technology. • Enrich the web pages of our school and classes. • Encourage teachers to build teaching portfolios. • Improve the participation of teachers’ workshops on Wednesdays. • Value the counseling service among colleagues. • Promote action research. • Compile Action Research regularly.

8. Develop multiple learning. • Promote English teaching activities. • Value the application of information technology education. • Promote multiple extra curricula. • Implement reading activities all over the campus.

9. Develop multiple learning. • Acknowledge the plants and ecology in school. • Encourage students to show their accomplishments from arts learning. • Increase the experience and explore the learning of Boy Scout and Girl Scout. • Promote sports teams that represent our school.

10. Encourage parents’ participation • Hold two sessions of parents’ education class. • Welcome parents to make time to participate in school- parents loving groups. • Successful education needs parents’ participation. Parent-teacher coordination would build up education partnership relationship.

11. Multiple Values Multiple Intelligences Global Vision Multiple Abilities To develop a diversity of abilities with a global vision To be a happy and confident Tianmu resident Vision of our school

12. School image Whole man education, warm atmosphere on campus, life long learning. • Our students are healthy and happy. We respect, care, value multiple developments. And our school is a school of developing both humanity and technology. • Enrich knowledge, cultivate a sound personality, respect for individual differences, create a warm paradise, and establish a learning community.

13. Children image Be healthy and active, respecting and caring, get along in harmony and be responsible. • Happy, beloved by all, active learning, modest and courteous, get adaptive development . • Care for the disadvantaged, serve people, respect for others, appreciate life, and fulfill self realization.

14. Teachers image Be professional and independent, life long learning, and caring for students • Teachers are passionate and responsible. Value team work. We are a group of excellent navigators. • Teach happily with love and patience, accompany children to grow up. A group of professional teachers who are eager to learn.

15. Parents image Participate passionately, learn constantly, support and trust. • Participate and devote passionately to serve the school and the society. Be excellent education partners. • Learn and grow, contribute their talents and abilities to the school and thecommunity, get feedbacks from the school and the community, act as happy community role models.

16. Features of Our School I. Promote multiple extra curricula We founded the badminton team, the volleyball team, the tennis team, the basketball team, the roller skate team, the table tennis team, the race-and-field team, the Boy Scout and Girl Scout, the orchestra, the recorder band, and the choir etc. Provide multiple learning opportunities to inspire the students’ physical-psychological abilities.

17. Promote multiple extra curricula. Inspire students’ multiple abilities

18. Features of Our School II. Promote lively teaching Enrich all kinds of teaching materials, design lively teaching methods, combine the resources of the community, implement the clustered teaching, inspire diverse, individualized, adaptive spirit of teaching, let students learn happily and spontaneously, create a high quality classroom management.

19. Features of Our School III. Implement multiple evaluations By means of lively teaching & happy learning, we also care for both quality & quantity evaluations. Enhance teaching quality by the evaluations of building profiles, experiments, actual works, surveys, interviews, performances, and reports etc. We do all of these to enhance the quality of education.

20. Features of Our School IV Integrate community resources Combine community human resources and establish several parent groups. Assist our school in implementing education of utilizing the library, remedial teaching, guiding students cross the roads, telling stories, nursing care, making campus arts, instructing love aphorisms of DaAi, creating a green and beautiful campus, participating in class service, and etc. Help parent-teacher work effectively.

21. Features of Our School Hold various kinds of professional workshops. Hope to advance teachers’ professional abilities by means of establishing sustainable learning groups. V. Encourage teachers’professional development

22. Features of Our School VI. Carry out English teaching wholly To cope with the trend of globalization at present, we implement English teaching from first grade through sixth grade. Plan our Day of English Teaching and teach the Sentence of the Week on every Thursday, in order to advance students’ ability to use and express the language.

23. Features of Our School VII. Facilitate IT education Train the teachers to be excellent information managers. Build up abundant web pages and maintain relevant IT facilities. Apply and integrate IT with other subjects to enhance teaching effect.

24. Features of Our School Arrange all kinds of teaching activities of health and PE. Combine the community resources to cultivate teachers’ and students’ exercise habits. Advance the physical abilities. Pursue a healthy and happy life. VIII. Realize our PE teaching to the best

25. Features of Our School VIIII. Carry out School-based curriculum Respect for the individual differences of students,promote multi-language teaching, reading activities, and value students’ moral education. Plan for multi-club activities, inspire students’ multiple intelligences, nurture the children with the basic abilities and grow with competence in the new century.

26. Family and social welfare Teaching support service Counseling line Charity and religious groups Safety and protection education Counseling of middle school life Medical service Counseling service Combine community resources Build up network system of teaching resources School

27. Human resource of the school Facilitate counseling work Guide students to cross the roads Assist remedial teaching Green campus Recycle the resources School Education of utilizing the library Support school activities Class service

28. Outlooks • Clever thoughts • Brainstorm • Professional dialogues • Solidarity. • Parent-teacher coordination and collaboration • Strive for Perfection

29. Having a dream into life Let us build up a school, where Children are fond of school, Teachers teach with love, Administrators run the school with efforts, And parents support with passion. Also, a paradise for children to learn happily in Tian Mu

30. Bless everyone Be healthy and happy