Lishan English introduction

Taipei Municipal Lishan Elementary School is located in the Neihu District, Taipei City. It is a school in the neighborhood of the Neihu Industrial Park, where many headquarters of world-famous high-tech companies are based.

In our curriculum, we focus on two particular aspects of learning—reading and physical education. The main reason we have been doing this is that we believe children must make “reading” and “exercise” their daily habits from their early ages on. If they can read and exercise on a daily basis in the elementary school level, it is more likely that they will continue to do so as they grow older because they have become their habits.

 However, it seems that every school is training their students to read and do sports. What is so peculiar about our curriculum? First, our students engage their reading activities in two languages—Chinese and English. We have an English program that recruits a certified English teacher from English speaking countries. So far, we have had an American, a Canadian, a New Zealander and a South African to serve in the program in the past few years. Another feature of our reading curriculum (both Chinese and English) is that everything students read has something to do with character education. Our teachers have worked together to select picture books and readers appropriate for their students to read. The subject matters in the selected books for students include, to name a few, honesty, friendship, hygiene and manners.
       

As far as physical education is concerned, we focus more on such sports as swimming, table tennis and inline skating in our regular classes as well as in extracurricular activities. Our teaching philosophy about PE is that we are helping students cultivate their interest in sports as our primary goal because once they enjoy doing sports, it is likely that they will excel at the sports they like.

All in all, we are a student-oriented school facilitated with all kinds of teaching aids everywhere. First, we have public arts here and there on campus. Second, we have “reading corners” designed by our own studen

ts. Third, we have a hallway where we display art works created by our students. Fourth, we have set aside a small piece of land on campus for students to grow their vegetables. Fifth, we have a sustainable device to hold rain for the irrigation of the vegetable farm on campus. In fact, Lishan Elementary School literally looks like an amusement park with abundant teaching resources and innovations.

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