Taiwan Adventist International School (TAIS; ) is a
secondary boarding school operated by the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, and ...
. It is situated in the midst of rural
Nantou County
Nantou County (; Hokkien POJ: ''Lâm-tâu-koān''; Hakka PFS: ''Nàm-thèu-yen'') is the second largest county of Taiwan by area, located in the central part of the country. It is also the only non-coastal county in Taiwan. Its name derives fro ...
,
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
.
It is a part of the
Seventh-day Adventist education system, the world's second largest Christian school system.
History
Taiwan Adventist International School is a boarding school operated in North Asia-Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists to fill the need of its constituents, missionaries' children, and local, Taiwanese who are looking for Adventist education at the junior high and high school level.
It was established in 2008 by the Adventist Educational Holdings Company to serve the whole of its constituents, and named Taiwan Adventist International School. It opened in August 2008 with eleven (11) teachers and has since grown to 24 faculty and staff. The first 12th grade graduation was in 2010.
TAIS is located on a 50-hectare (123 acre) campus in central Taiwan.
Curriculum
The schools curriculum consists primarily of the standard courses taught at
college preparatory school
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s across the world. All students are required to take classes in the
core
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Science and technology
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areas of English, basic sciences, mathematics, a foreign language, and social sciences.
Spiritual aspects
All students take religion classes each year that they are enrolled. These classes cover topics in
biblical
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history and
Christian
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and
denominational
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doctrines. Instructors in other disciplines also begin each class period with prayer or a short devotional thought, many which encourage student input. Weekly, the entire student body gathers together in the auditorium for an hour-long chapel service.
Outside the classrooms there is year-round spiritually oriented programming that relies on student involvement.
See also
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Seventh-day Adventist education
The Seventh-day Adventist educational system, part of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, is overseen by the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists located in Silver Spring, Maryland. The educational system is a Christian school-based syst ...
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Seventh-day Adventist Church
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, and ...
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Seventh-day Adventist theology
The theology of the Seventh-day Adventist Church resembles that of Protestant Christianity, combining elements from Lutheran, Wesleyan-Arminian, and Anabaptist branches of Protestantism. Adventists believe in the infallibility of Scripture and tea ...
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History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
The Seventh-day Adventist Church had its roots in the Millerite movement of the 1830s to the 1840s, during the period of the Second Great Awakening, and was officially founded in 1863. Prominent figures in the early church included Hiram Edson, ...
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Taipei Adventist American School
Taipei Adventist American School (TAAS) is a private foreign-registered elementary school with an American-based curriculum located on Yangming Shan (陽明山) in the Shihlin District of Taipei City, Taiwan. It is administered under the Norther ...
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The Primacy Collegiate Academy
The Primacy Collegiate Academy (TPCA; ), formerly Taipei Adventist Preparatory Academy (TAPA), is a private international high school located in Shilin District, Taipei, Taiwan.
In 2002, Adventist College Preparatory Center (ACPC) was founded by ...
References
External links
Official TAIS website
{{International schools in Taiwan
2008 establishments in Taiwan
Educational institutions established in 2008
High schools in Taiwan
International schools in Taiwan
Secondary schools affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church