Timmerman School was founded on the principle that the child is an eager and willing learner, given a stimulating and nurturing environment. Developing self-discipline, resourcefulness, responsibility for one's own actions, and respect for one another is fundamental in the philosophy of Timmerman School. The school is staffed with dedicated professionals who love what they are doing, which is going about the business of educating children. With the emphasis on quality, we seek to "walk the high road," and we ask our students to join us in this endeavor.
The Timmerman School believes the child is an eager and willing participant in the action of learning if given a stimulating and nurturing environment.
To foster this desire, the faculty, staff, and administration of Timmerman strive to provide a safe, creative, thought-provoking atmosphere in which a child can learn to wonder, question, create decision making skills, and comprehend the meaning and function of the world around him or her.
The development of self discipline, resourcefulness, responsibility, respect for others, and respect for self is, therefore, fundamental to the school's educational philosophy.
It is the goal of the school to produce graduates with highly developed thinking skills who are well grounded in all fundamental academic disciplines.
The Timmerman School was founded in 1954 in Columbia, South Carolina by June H. (Mrs. John A.) Timmerman. Her genuine love, care, and concern for young people was the motivating factor in her decision to create a learning center dedicated to children. Beginning with one classroom of pre-schoolers in 1954, the school has now grown to a student body of more than 500 in grades k-3 through eighth. The school's faculty and staff have also increased in number to approximately 50 in order to better serve the ever-increasing student body.
Mrs. Timmerman's experience with children has been wide and varied. As a mother, teacher, couselor, administrator, and children's television program coordinator, she saw a great need for proper instruction, love, and understanding during the formative years of a child's life. Her response to this need was to build a school based on these principles.
Mrs. Timmerman's basic philosphy - "Much can be accomplised through love and understanding" - permeates the total organization. The school is staffed with qualified, dedicated faculty and staff who love teaching young people. With an emphasis on quality, the school strives to instill the desire to "walk the high road" in all its students to produce young men and women capable of meeting and overcoming the challenges to be faced in the overwhelming world of high school and college.
