The dedications of these retired workers in education continues after their retirement, they’re constantly, giving back, to the community, where their services are needed the most, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
The retired Chinese professor, Bao-Bei Yu was grateful that her teacher from the distant countryside used to treat her like a treasure, she’d started giving free English tutoring sessions, and this year, she’d gone to Ching-Hsien Middle School to volunteer as an education, and in return, the school provided her with free room and board, she thought it was her turn, to start treating someone else’s children treasures. She said, living out her retirement in this way, it’d made her feel very fulfilled.
this is where, education is REALLY necessary!
In order to resolve the issue of not having enough instructors in the distant areas, the Department of Education started the “Boarding Program Quid Pro Quo in the Elementary and Middle Schools”, and the local foundations put in the funding, matched up Bao-Bay Yu, and seventeen other retired school instructors and volunteers, to six separate distant region schools to assist in teaching, and some of them headed deep, into the mountains, while some had quit their day job, to start volunteer as educators full-time, they’re all living out their dreams.
On the progress of the Quid-Pro-Quo Boarding program, the principal of the Chin-Hsien Middle School, Yeou pointed out, that the school is located at the scenic areas of Jiufeng, and the full-time and part-time studying programs had a total of six classes, with ninety-eight students, and only fourteen instructors, and this time, they managed to get five more teaching volunteers.
Yeou said, what moved him the most was, there was a female editor of a publisher, Cheng, who graduated with a master’s from the Taipei Education University, she’d originally worked as the editor for middle school science texts, and she’d quitted her job, and entered into volunteering, and stayed in the bed and breakfast that the school put her up in, and walked to and from, the schools up in the mountains, to give the students instructions in the subject of science, to prove the validity of the textbooks she’d written herself.
Another volunteer is a master degree holder from a school in England, worked as an instructor at a cram school, used active methods to teach the students, and also, signed on to help the students in the remedial education program at Ching-Hsien Middle School, helping the students who are behind in their English courses, and helped those who were excelling in English, to get even better.
Bao-Bei Yu went to elementary school in the countryside, as she graduated, the teacher feared, that her students won’t be able to catch up in the subject of English in middle school, and would automatically give her students the extra help in the subject of English. She was grateful for her school instructor for doing that, and now, she’d decided to give back to the community, now that she’s retired.
the dediccations of these instructors, to further the knowledge base of these children…
Bao-Bei Yu said, a lot of the students from these distant areas had only grandparents in their homes, and, the grandparents couldn’t help the students out with their school work, and the kids would blow off doing their work after they returned home, causing a lot of the vocabulary terms that should have been learned, not. She’d gone to Ching-Hsien Middle School, to help this group of students every Thursday, she felt very happy about it.
The retired school principal, Chiu would work as a volunteer two days out of the week, to Taiping Elementary School, and the drive had thirty-six turns, other than teaching the traditional Chinese music instruments, she’d also directed the band of Chinese instruments, and also, helped the school developed the courses, as well as getting the courses she’d helped develop up to teaching standards.
Chiu said, that there’s this lack of resources in the distant schools, that they would require even MORE of the retired school instructors to participate. Being able to keep on giving back, she felt very fulfilled, she’d stressed, that the schools she worked in is the focus of the local tribes, that once the school closed, the tribe will be surrounded by darkness too.
And so, this, is what motivated all of these already retired educators, to start back up in education again, because they saw this need, and, because they knew the meaning, the purpose of education, and so, they are giving back, as much as they can, while they’re still able to, and that, is amazing.
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