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| Important Education Measures |
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Conducting selection of school principals, school assessment and teacher expertise evaluation. |
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Consolidating the belief of liberty of education, democracy of schools, and autonomy of teaching. |
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Forming schools’ visions, elevating teachers’ professional ability, encouraging school to develop specialties,
promoting small-school alliances, and advancing schools’ efficiency. |
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Promoting teaching quality by improving school facilities and equipments. |
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Keeping school campuses open to communities and running schools according to sustainable principles. |
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Establishing schools and reducing class size according to the needs of communities. |
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Evaluating the feasibility of merging schools of low or negative growth rate of population to make good use of
educational resources. |
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Creating an e-learning environment by promoting usage of fiber optics in schools, setting up the website of
Kaohsiung Digital School, promoting IT integration in teaching, utilizing web resources in improving teaching
and conducting trial School of the Future. |
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Initiating the program to build friendly campuses and reinforcing education of life, morality, law and jurisdiction,
and human rights. |
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Conducting Education Priority Areas (EPA) to offer after-school programs for students in elementary schools
and kindergartens, educate foreign spouses and children, and to assist underprivileged groups. |
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Establishing systems for students to voice complaints and setting up supporting systems for disadvantaged
minorities to protect students’ learning rights. |
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Implementing reporting, placement and counseling of returning to schools for school dropouts. |
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Conducting Multiple Entrance Program of Senior High and Vocational High Schools and Basic Competency Tests
for Junior High School Students to provide more options in selecting schools. |
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Promoting technical and vocational education, conducting co-op programs, contests of skills, and systems of
certification to develop professional specialists. |
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Continuing the program for integrating high schools with local communities, integrating educational resources,
establishing adaptive learning systems, and encouraging junior high graduates to study at nearby high schools. |
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Promoting transforming municipal and private vocational high schools into comprehensive high schools to
advance quality of education and ensure balance of development in middle education. |
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Regulating the amount of students in elementary and junior high schools and carrying out normal class
grouping to ensure balanced district development and equal educational opportunities. |
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Implementing Grade 1-9 Curriculum in compulsory education, encouraging teachers to engage in action
studies, activating teachers’ innovation of ideas, and providing opportunities for junior high school and
elementary school teachers to go abroad for advanced study. |
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Integrating concepts of humanistic education, open campus, and sustainable campus into education to create
a quiet, safe and homey learning environment for all students. |
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Enriching book collection of school libraries, encouraging reading, and opening school libraries to communities. |
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Promoting “every school has one music group; every student has one kind of music talent” to develop school-
centered model of cultivating talents in every district. |
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Promoting mother tongue education and editing teaching media and materials, marking schools’ characteristics,
training student volunteers as tour guides for local culture and history, and holding adoption activities for district
scenery. |
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Promoting culture diversity education and harmony among ethnic groups. |
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Establishing Global Village- English World, improving foreign language ability, promoting international exchanges,
and cultivating students’ global perspective. |
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Enhancing special education, establishing special education classes in every school and preschool, reinforcing
evaluation, placement, and counseling, and carrying out policy of zero-rejection in special education. |
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Allowing early entrance for elementary students, shortening the length of time to complete elementary or
junior high school for gifted students, enabling high school and vocational high school students to take
college-level courses, and implementing student-centered initiatives such as creative education, affective
education, and independent research. |
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Conducting adult continuing education to lower the rate of illiteracy. |
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Promoting Kaohsiung’s “Four-year Program for Life-long Learning: Healthy and Vigorous Kaohsiung Citizens”
and organizing the second community college to provide people with diverse learning opportunities and
advance citizens’ educational standard. |
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Conducting activities for family education and cultivating proper notions toward marriage to enhance family
harmony. |
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Providing school courses and activities for family education to build up knowledge and skills in taking care of a
family and advance physical and mental development. |
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Organizing activities for art education and encouraging students and teachers’ participation to advance art
education in this city. |
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Promoting programs of “Artists and Writers on Campus” to assist schools in improving teachers’ teaching
strategies and advancing teaching quality. |
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Carrying out education of gender equality in every school and promoting school faculty’s knowledge of
reporting, counseling, and related laws in sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and family violence. |
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Reinforcing work for health care, such as protection of students’ eyesight, health check-ups, prevention of
infectious diseases to cultivate students’ strong build and enhance physical and mental health. |
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Strengthening Physical Education to advance students’ physical fitness and combining communities’ swimming
pools with schools’ swimming courses to advance citizens’ swimming ability. |
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Promoting water sports such as rowing and sailboating to develop the features of the harbor city. |
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Organizing the World Games 2009, enlisting schools in adopting sports items and participant countries,
conducting international contests of related items, and forming student groups for promoting and marketing
sports items of the World Games 2009. |
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Strengthening safety management of campus, stadium, social education center, and tutorial classes,
establishing a management mechanism for school contingencies, implementing students’ safety education,
reinforcing education in traffic safety and prevention of earthquakes and other disasters to prevent campus
accidents. |
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Performing trial program of joint defense among communities to ensure children’s commuting safety. |
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