Caroline Hsu, LS Mandarin Coordinator at TAS, has been a Mandarin teacher and coordinator for over 20 years. Under her leadership, the LS Mandarin team embraces opportunities to explore ways to increase language learning in the Mandarin classrooms and looks forward to sharing how they implement balanced literacy components and partial workshop models with colleagues in the region. One important part of the Mandarin team's approach to sharing best practices in teaching is through a unique internship program that the school has been involved in since 2016. 

It has been a busy and rewarding year for the PTA Grant & Authors program. This year, the PTA sponsored 8 different proposals to provide new and exciting learning opportunities to our entire learning community. We hope you will click through to see and read more about each incredible event that helped our students, faculty, and even parents learn and grow in new ways this year.

Taipei American School encourages all of our students to explore their own interests, discovering and embracing the joy of learning whether it is in- or outside of the classroom! One fine example of this is Grade 6 student Erin H., who is passionate about art and spends a few hours every week working on her art projects.

What happens when we believe our success is completely out of our control? In 1964, a 21-year-old Martin Seligman entered a lab in the Psychology Department at the University of Pennsylvania for the first time as a new graduate student. In Seligman’s book, Learned Optimism, he describes what he witnessed as chaotic. The experiment the lab was working on had hit an unexpected snag that day. As a result, the lab was full of frantic behavior among the graduate students while numerous dogs whimpered in pain.