Because this woman saw the need, and simply, provided it! From the Front Page Sections, translated…
The Taiwanese English Teacher, Hsiao-Wei Yang used English to help those migrated to the U.S. gaining new abilities to make a living in the U.S., she’d received the New York Times’s “the Best E.S.L. Teacher”. Last year, she’d arrived back in Taiwan, to set forth her “circling around the island five times” plan, through an alternative way of education, brought the English language to the distant areas, helped the local industries find their steps onto the international stage.
The group of young people sat down on the floors of the Taiwan Railway Station at Taipei Main Station, with their own devised English teaching materials, with the active and lively methods of instructions, attracted a ton of the travels to stand in for the lessons. And this, is the “English Flash Mob Classroom” that Xiao-Wei Yang had set up, she’d even used this method of teaching to over twenty distant schools too.
The forty-five year-old Yang received a degree from a technical high school here, but, loving the English language, she’d gone to England, earned her Master’s degree, then, headed to the U.S. to teach the newly immigrated individuals English, helped a lot of people assimilated into the ways of living there, and helped them get jobs as well.
Last February, Yang returned to Taiwan, and set up the “Circling the Island Five Times” Teaching Plans, hoped to help those children in the distant regions gain their motivations for learning the English language back again.
The first round, she’d immersed herself in discussions with the college students locally, discussed how they can better the learning environments; the second time around the island, she’d gone through the “Quid Pro Quo” method, the students can bring a dish or provide for a night’s stay, in exchange for one English lesson.
As she arrived to Yilan, the Lodong High School’s students used taking her to tour the local night markets, in exchange for their English learning sessions, and, her method of no restriction and no cultural barriers of teaching, was something fresh to the students.
On the third, fourth time around the island, she’d gone with her teaching team to Lalashan, Namasha, and other distant regions, gained a better understanding of the environments for learning the English language, through using English, connecting to the cultural creations industries, allowing the foreigners who traveled here to find them easily. She’d even set up an English learning channel for the Bunon Tribe in Xinyi Region, so the foreigners can all get acquainted with the singing style of the tribe.
On the last time around, she’d helped the communities and the tribes to set up reading groups, accompaniment sessions, to help improve the lack of better environment for learning English, so the kids from the distant areas can also have a chance, to find fun, in learning the English language. Her plans of circling around Taiwan five times is to be completely by the end of this October.
Xiao-Wei Yang told, that in her twenty years’ of teaching experiences, she’d found, that English is not just a “language class’, but it could also bring new ways of making a living to the locals, she hoped to provide what she’d learned, to the children from distant regions in her home country, so they can have more opportunities available to them: “Every student IS the future, they just needed the right kinds of help, then, they can create a better future for themselves.”
the picture is from the papers…
We have here, a woman who works very hard, to provide education to children in the distant areas, and because of how the resources are lacking in those regions, she’d brought her tools to the children, and used lively methods to instructed them, helping them improve their skills, so they can have better chances in life later on, and that, is the amazing dedication of a teacher.
Life, the Obstacle Course 