Located at the junction of Zhonghe, Banqiao and Tucheng, Zhonghe Senior High School, founded in 1990, overlooked the well-known Yuantong Temple. Also, the School was the first public senior high school in Zhonghe and Yonghe District, New Taipei City. The School enrolls Taiwanese students, ranging from 10th-12th grades. Each grade is comprised of 18 classes and the School body consists of 54 classes, with more than 2000 students and with a student-teacher ratio of 20 to 1.
Mr. Lee Ping-Yin served as the first principal in 1992, and Mr. Luo Fu-Shan took up the post as the second principal in 1998. The two honorable principals built up an excellent spirit and atmosphere for the educational institution, and led the School to achieve outstanding results along with the great efforts of both teachers and students.
In 2005, Mr.Kao Po-Ling succeeded as the third principal. In the course of his duties, the School successfully applied for the Senior High School Actualization Program. The application further fueled the coherence and professional passion of the administrative team and teachers on the existing firm basis.
The English Creative Workshop, a professional learning community comprised of professional teachers, acts a driving force to enhance the communication and encourage peer learning amongst professional teachers of the different subjects. With the Actualization Program fund, the School has further improved its on-campus infrastructure, offering new IT courses for students and bringing itself a brand new look.
In 2014, Mr. Huang Chi-Feng succeeded as the fifth principal. During his terms in school, the New Taipei City Government cooperated with Microsoft Taiwan in hope to achieve the administrative goal as stated in the “Partners in Learning” program, thereby implementing the “School in the Cloud” project. The duo developed the Microsoft Showcase Schools in order to train up the crucial capacity for the 21st century amongst senior high school students in New Taipei City, thereby fulfilling the implementation of the “Study in Hometown” education policy.
The School was further approved by the Education Department of the New Taipei City Government as a featured school “Star of Technology”, and planned to establish FabLab Zhonghe. The teaching faculty managed to integrate their teaching methods, from traditional lecture methods to two-way interactive teaching methods, and our courses were no longer comprised of solely face-to-face lessons, but also embedded the elements of online virtual learning. The teachers have actively engaged in discussions to uncover innovative ideas to achieve sparkling performances and results.
In 2015, Ms. Ke Ya-Ling was selected for the sixth principal. Under her leadership, the School has been again recognized as the model school of the Microsoft Showcase School Plan. In the meanwhile, the School’s English Creative Workshop won the Award for Excellence in Teaching from Ministry of Education for the second time.
With in-depth teaching of each subject and cross-disciplinary collaboration and instruction, the School has striven to uncover “how to generate maximum value with limited resources”, and “how to get students to start from niche learning” when developing curriculum. By so doing, the School helps students to enjoy peak learning experience and thereby explore their abilities and yet undiscovered talents to their fullest when students participate in its carefully designed courses.
The School must grasp the chance to further break through and evolve. The School is more than ready to invest greater efforts. By making full use of niches and highlights, the School effectively combines governmental and local features and social resources to attract diverse resources through innovative and outstanding performances, thereby further developing its featured courses to build a quality school brand. The School hopes to create new value and future and become one of the best senior high schools in Taiwan to cultivate remarkable talents for society.
The School logo is the Polaris. The compass symbolizes hope. The V shape underlined with a thin and a bold line signifies victory and progress. The logo represents how the student body and teachers at the School are rich in hope and success, and are consistently making progress along the way. The four directions of the Polaris stand for moderation, sincerity, modesty and flexibility respectively, which are also the School motto.
The School attaches great importance to multi-aspect exploration and adaptive learning. Besides, it upholds the philosophy of “techno spirit and humane concern” and actively develops and expands its featured courses. The School wishes to realize the vision for education by offering enormous depth and breadth of course content, thereby cultivating “global citizens with cross-boundary mobile learning abilities, humane and social care, knowledge of modern science and technology, and global mobility”.
The teachers of various disciplines of the School are highly professional with a burning passion and an abundant practical experience in teaching, and have made numerous publications and received countless awards for their expertise. More than eighty percent of the teachers have obtained a master degree, and have engaged in teaching for over ten years on average.
The professional learning community for teachers runs smoothly and the developed teaching materials have become an important foundation for the featured courses and diverse and enriching electives. Some of the teachers are even appointed as researchers for the Ordinary Senior High School Curriculum Center of MOE and are recruited as members of the Curriculum & Instruction Consulting Team of New Taipei City. Also, they are the test makers and raters for the Comprehensive Assessment Program for Junior High School Students. The teachers are rich in training experience and capable of guiding students to participate in the various competitions. Thanks to their professional expertise, the students have had dazzling performances in both national and international contests.
The School is located between the Hsintian Creek and the Dahanshi River, and surrounded by Sishizhangshan and Qingshuishan Mountain areas. Its total area is around 5.5152 hectare. Besides, Zhonghe interchange of freeway No 3 is nearby, and the School will be right at the location of Zhonghe Senior High School Station, Wanda line of Taipei Metro.
1. Green Eco Park:
With Sishizhangshan as the backyard of the School, the eco park is regarded as not only home to a rich variety of ecological species, offering students and teachers the chance to get closer to the natural environment, but also a platform to integrate curriculum-based learning into the ecological system through field trips in Biology, Geography, Chinese and Arts lessons.
2. Digital Teaching Environment:
As a Microsoft Showcase School for the “School in the Cloud” project, the School sets up an effective teaching environment and administrative management system, thereby mastering the up-to-date teaching and learning tactic of the 21st century.
3. The Dome-shaped Teaching Observatory:
With a planetarium and a dome-shaped observatory for teaching, the School is equipped with a 15cm refractor and EM-500 equatorial instrument made by Takahashi, Japan. Star-gazers are able to track the movement of the target stars with the automatic mapping software. The dome can even be opened and closed at will with the remote control device. Besides, the observatory is complete with an automatic weather monitoring and recording system for a long-term weather report.
4. Subject-based Classroom:
The subject-based classrooms are equipped with a digital white-board, a digital visualizer, computers and networking devices, a teaching screen, Interactive Response System (IRS), etc. Technologically, the advanced equipment enables teachers to conduct effective teaching, and even carry out peer observations for further improvements.
5. Laboratory:
The School holds a total of 7 science laboratories, including 2 physics labs, 2 chemistry labs, 2 biology labs and 1 environmental science lab. With its high-tech facilities, the laboratories are qualified for science contests in New Taipei City.
6. Library:
The detached library serves as the center of teaching resources, and houses more than 43 thousand volumes, 400 e-books and 80 types of magazines. Besides, the library is equipped with a multi-media room, e-learning classroom, auditorium, exhibition room, ICT classrooms, etc. In addition, the library adopts digital management, offering online search, bookings and renewal services.
7. Learning Space:
Each classroom is equipped with a dust-free blackboard, air-conditioners and an overhead projector, offering students a convenient and quality learning environment.
8. Venues for Workshop, Sharing the Outcome of Project-Based Learning or Performance :
The School hosts various venues, including 1 comprehensive student activity center for 2,200 people, 2 large-sized conference rooms for 500 people, 1 auditorium for 250 people and 1 medium-sized conference room for 50 people.
9. Up-to-date network equipment (Wi-Fi):
The School sets up a Wi-Fi network throughout the campus and supplies teachers with a laptop to conduct teaching and relevant activities anywhere on campus, producing “Study Anywhere, Study Anytime” effect.
To further support the diverse exploration of our students, to arouse study interest, and to strengthen motivation, the School hosts a series of diverse and enriching electives for 10th and 11th graders, including psychology, design and technology, mathematical thinking and activities, star-gazer overture–mysteries of space, food safety, literature, DIY science, documentary production, APP design, frisbee, English speaking, hand-drawn maps, second foreign language (Japanese, Korean, French, German), etc.
The School actively seeks out to build a partnership with business enterprises, alumni association, parents’ association, cultural and educational foundation, retired teaching staff association and other education institutions, ranging from junior high schools to universities. It is widely believed that each and every one of these partnership relationships can bring great benefits to our students and staff members.
1.Ministry of Education, Education Department
(1) Senior High School Actualization Program is provided by Ministry of Education.
(2) Senior High School Excellence Educational Program is promoted by Education Department, New Taipei City Government.
(3) FabLab Zhonghe is authorized by the New Taipei City Government
(4) The School serves as the Curriculum Development Center for the Chinese Subject.
(5) The School is appointed to be the Career Planning Education Resource Center.
2. The School enhances collaboration across the community, business enterprise, and universities, etc.
(1) The School establishes strategic alliance with universities, including National Taipei University of Technology, National Taipei University of Education, Shijian University, Tatung University, Yuanzhi University, etc.
(2) The School establishes strategic alliance with junior high schools, including (up to this date): New Taipei City Municipal Zhongzheng Junior High School, Jisui Junior High School, Tucheng Junior High School, Zhanghe Junior High School, Ziqiang Junior High School, Wanhua Junior High School, etc. Such partnerships not only facilitate communication between the different school bodies, but also help students achieve eminence through inter-school activities.
(3) The School establishes strategic alliance with Shuanghe Hospital and Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, and hosts a series of activities, including medical science camps, field investigation into hospitals and medical checkups for staff members, etc.