Mission
Milam Elementary School will serve our community by valuing each student as an individual: providing a quality education in a safe and physically comfortable environment in which all students can learn, achieve, and succeed; incorporating varied experiences and opportunities to encourage lifelong learning; and by promoting and nurturing positive relationships and mutual respect among students. Teachers, parents, students, and the community will share in these responsibilities and support our school’s mission. To provide an environment in which the student feels at ease to pursue her academic development.
Objectives
To offer a program to meet the academic, intellectual, social, moral, physical, and emotional needs of the elementary school child.
To develop the basic skills necessary for learning and for the art of communication.
To encourage the use of all the learning processes: inquiry, exploratory, inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning, and convergent and divergent thinking.
To provide experiences that strengthen the students’ belief in the democratic system by shaping attitudes, stimulating beliefs, and providing knowledge.
To teach by example and instruction an acceptance of differing cultural and ethnic backgrounds and that each individual has worth and should be treated with dignity and respect.
To prepare the students to be adaptable to his/her future world by teaching flexibility.
To employ the use of technology to deliver a comprehensive curriculum.
To enrich the curriculum through a fine arts elective rotation program.
To provide a varied curriculum to develop the total individual.
To encourage a better understanding of the needs of our students by working with parents and community.
To strengthen the student’s educational experiences through the use of community resources.
To provide opportunities to develop habits and attitudes necessary for future employment.
To provide continuous and timely evaluation, assessment, and feedback to make students and parents aware of their progress.
To teach a sense of responsibility to self, family and community.
To teach and model exemplary character.
