A. Campus buildings:
The Huang Family Qianrang Estate, a precious gem on our campus, built in 1897 and renovated in May 2004, is currently open to the public and has been visited by many local citizens and nearby elementary and middle school students, and has now become a community literature and history education center. Teaching about local historical buildings has also become an integral part of school-based curriculum.
B. Public art:
The public arts on campus was designed concurrently with campus building and landscape design with the aim to establish a cultural and artistic undertone to our school through a holistic design and planning which takes the visual and environment into account. Apart from public art installations, the identification system and direction signs are designed all together to add an aesthetic touch to our campus. The installation work was led by Chris Lin, the artist in residence at the time, in 2007. In terms of achievements in this regard, we are unmatched by any other schools in Taipei.
C. Student clubs:
The 31 clubs formed in our school follow the principle of reaching a balanced development in the Five Ways of Life. As such, clubs are of various kinds including academic, scientific, arts and culture, and sports clubs to suit students’ interests. With such approach, the weekly club classes are students’ favorite part of the curriculum. Clubs of basketball, soccer, table tennis, badminton, folk dance, go, recorder, the school choir, and the school string orchestra have all reached excellent performances.
D. Boosting teachers, faculty, and students’ health:
We aim to develop an integrated multi-layered, strategized, and evaluated health boosting program with implementation strategies on both the educational level and policy level. Strategies on the educational level mainly are raising teachers, faculty, and students’ awareness, knowledge, attitude, and values in health through the intervention of curriculums, activities, and mass media, so they can form good health and lifestyle habits to enhance their physical, mental, emotional, and social health.
E. Feature programs:
The Dragon Exercise--Long Men alumni’s shared memory—is a fitness exercise we choreographed aiming to build students’ physical fitness. Performed on important occasions, the exercise has received recognition and praise from parents and the society. PE classes at Long Men are follow the sports seasons model where various kinds of sports rotate in years: 7th graders learn the Dragon Exercise, swimming, and table tennis, 8th graders learn volleyball, swimming, and basketball, and 9th graders learn badminton, swimming, folk sports, and experience stand up paddleboarding. Interclass competitions are held at the end of the sessions for each sport and Spirit Award is given, making the competitions the best way for classes to gel.
A six-volume self-complied teaching material for integrative learning area combining scout education, home economics, and counseling is a complete set of three-year teaching material and evaluation complied collectively by teachers and students at Long Men. Based on this innovative approach of teachers and students compile textbook content collectively, the interdisciplinary integration training ignites students’ motivation in self-directed learning. Teachers also spilt students in groups where each student is an expert of a particular area, and through guiding them to experience, put things into practice and reflect, students develop the ability to take the initiative, engage the public, and seek the common good.
Having the Huang Family Qianrang Estate and the local culture of everyday life as the inspiration of our interdisciplinary course design, we established the following feature programs particular to Long Men: Sketching and Oil Painting of Historical Buildings, Getting to Know Historical Buildings in Da’an District, Introduction on the Cultural History of Historical Buildings, English Guided Tours of Historical Buildings, Research and Discussion on Sustainable Historical Buildings, and Lantern and Lantern Riddle Making for Long Men Lantern Festival.
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