The policy makers, apparently, they don’t live here, in REALITY!!! Off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
Entering into the Lize Middle School classroom in Yilan, the students’ seats no longer faced the blackboards, the desks were set up, in groups of four; the teacher isn’t standing in front of the class, at the podium, wth the microphone, giving the lectures, instead, walked around the classrooms, guiding the students in discussions. The science class in Gushan High School in Kaohsiung, the teacher used the candles to set up a curriculum for an experiment, and all the students were active, engaging in discussion, and as they found the answers, they all, started screaming in joy.
The student from the school, Lin said, she got to hear the various opinions in the classroom discussions, that it’d made the learning experiences, more interesting, that it’s, way better than, having the lecturer, speaking to the class on the course materials. The students are no longer, passing in the classroom sessions, the emphasis placed on practical applications, learning, and how it applies to the students’ realities, all of these, are the changes that the new curricula reform hoped, to bring to education.
The Wide Selections of Courses, Adding to the Academic Courses in Reality
But, on the other hand, there were the schools that worked hard, to change how the students are learning in class, and there are, also the schools that kept, finding the holes in the systems of curricula reform, stripping the right to choose of students, and their spaces of learning, adding to the students’ stress.
The primary change of the new curricular reform is adding the electives to the high school, so the students can choose based off of their interests, but as we went deep into the schools, we’d found, that some of the schools wrapped up the course names, using a brand new title, but, instead, these new courses are, of academic means; the flexible study hall given to the students set forth by the new curriculum is also, set to the instructors, so they can, make up the progresses lacking behind. This is most prevalent, in the all-star high schools in the big cities.
Not on Track with the Entrance Exams, Can’t Take Care of Both Teaching and Getting the Students High Enough Grades to Get Accepted to a Good School
the UDN Group conducted a survey for 929 high schools, and nearly seventy-percent of middle schools, sixty-four percent of high schools, believed that the government failed to get the connection of switching from the older curricula to the newer, that it’s hard, to help cultivate the abilities of students to gain a specific skillset, and balancing the academics.
Aside from not having enough working resources there are sixty-percent of middle school and seventy-six percent of high school that thought, that it was difficult, for the execution of the course curricula, including for the lesson plans, increasing nonteaching duties, lacking of qualified instructors. Under this new education methods, every single teacher is working overtime, and underpaid. The surveys of the public also showed, that although the teaching methods are good, for helping the students become trained in various means, but, they’d still hoped, the government can allot more resources, to make this possible.
The Anxieties from the Lab Rats, the Students are, Cramming, Hard as Ever
In the classroom setting, the teachers are, sweating hard, teaching, but, after school, it’s, a whole new warzone for the parents of the students living in the cities, the students are, cramming harder than ever, “is your child a labrat of the newly implemented reform of education?”, the slogan of the cram schools, tailored to the anxieties of the parents’, the courses of reading comprehension, writing, test preparation, using the slogan of “learning experience’, there were the all-star middle school graduates who’d signed on to these classes after graduating from middle school.
The student who’d registered for the cram school, Lin, is a first who is set up to learn using the newly implemented curriculum, she said, that from the reviewing over the old test questions, she’d found that the contents were somewhat different compared to before, “the chapters in the text of this new education plan is more scattered, and we’d had to, read through the texts, to find the key points ourselves.”
The $360N.T/Hour Pay for the Courses, Hard to Find the Good Teachers with This Sort of Wages
The survey conducted by UDN papers of middle and high school students found, that the frontline educators who are teachers in the classrooms wrote down the suggestions, calling out to the government, to resolve the difficulties of teaching in the classes, some suggested to up the quality of teachers, and give them a higher hourly payrate, currently, the teachers in class are required to have a valid teaching certificate, but, there are only a limited number of specialty teachers who are, actually, certified as instructors, and, at the payrate of $360N.T. per hour, it would be, next to impossible to find fitting instructors.
And, the paper also recommends to the government, to reexamine the workings of the classroom setting.
And so, you CAN see, how FUCKED up, how un-well-thought-out this plan in education is, the president, the Department of Education, feel that we should, get caught UP with the rest of this world’s forum of education, and started, implementing these, bullshitting policies, without ANY considerations, of how something works in some other country, may NOT work out at all, in this country, due to the differences of culture, population, etc., etc., etc., and so, the learning suffers, education suffers, and, children still get SCREWED over!