This is from the, underpopulated, distant region schools, from the Newspapers, translated…
The Pros of One-on-One, Can Teach the Student Until S/he Finally Understands, the Cons, the Limitations, a Student Switched THREE Different Homeroom Instructors in Four Years, Lacking Interactions with One’s Classmates
There are, fourteen schools in Taichung, Changwha, and Nantou, with a 1:1 student-teacher ratio. Because there’s only one student in the fourth grade in the Guanxing Elementary School of Changwha, the school, in order to prevent the student from being the highest scorer all the time, set up the scoring a ninety or above, then, the student gets awarded; and the physical education, the literature courses of the second semesters, the school plan to get the other students from other grade levels to have a mix-level classroom, to increase the interactions of this particular student with the rest of the students in the school.
a class of one student, one teacher, photo from online…
The reduction in birthrate had caused the one student per classroom, there was only the Guanxing Elementary School with this trend in Changwha, there were six schools in Taichung with this situation, and seven schools in Nantou, and the local governments are coming up with solutions to help the students effectively.
There are only thirty-three students in Guanxing Elementary School currently, in the fourth grade, there’s, only a limited method of interaction of one-on-one teaching, plus it’s a small scale school, the student had switched three homeroom teachers in her four years of attending elementary school.
In order to change the difficulty situations these smaller-scale schools are faced with, the local governments recently proposed the merging of nearby schools, and gave a $5,000N.T. incentive to the students’ families who are willing to merge. The Heya Elementary merged with Lugu Elementary School in August, and changed the name to Heya Campus, and, on every Tuesdays and Wednesdays, the students from Heya would head to their music, P.E. classes in Lugu Elementary, and, the competitions, the performance extracurricular activities are all, set up to synchrony, to increase the interactions of the students.
The local office manager of the Department of Education, Lee said, that the one-student schools are usually located in the distant regions, the trend of population moving out won’t change anytime soon, that it might exacerbate. Taking for example, the Mingtang Middle School in Yuchi County, there are only sixteen students in the entire school, if there’s only one student per class, the students can’t even find enough teammates for sports, that in the future, the school will find support from locally, to allow the students from the neighboring schools, to learn together, to increase the interactions.
with children from other grades or other schools, to increase the interactions of the one student in a classroom setting, photo from online…
This, is the problem, caused by the decline in birthrate, of how there are only, limited jobs in this distant locations, and so, people are moving out, leaving there to be, not enough children to go to classes, and, if you mix all the students of various grade in one class, then, there would be, troubles, because the instructors can’t teach the students together, like in those schools with many children from the same grades, instead, the teachers may have to know a lot more skills to teach the various grade level of children.
Life, the Obstacle Course 