Make every child more successful
K-12 Education Administration, Ministry of Education. To implement the development of 12-Year Basic Education and the core learning competencies.
Promote and upgrade the effectiveness of English teaching program among elementary and junior high schools.
Integrate the central government, local government, and schools to promote English education.
Improve English teaching facilities and equipment
Host English learning activities
ETRC Program
Program for improving English teaching facilities and equipment
Set objectives
- The improvement of listening and speaking equipment at elementary and junior high schools to enhance teaching quality.
- The purchase of English books at elementary and junior high schools to build library collections.
- In charge of the supervision of schools to create a bilingual environment to reinforce an English learning environment.
- Assist schools in maximizing school environments to create scenario simulation classrooms.
- Enhance English learning and communicative abilities to reinforce the unity of learning and practical application.
Develop strategies
Short-term goals
Regarding schools’ basic listening devices and the planning of basic bilingual environment, the completion rate is 100% in school year 108.
Mid-term goals
Strengthen 1. the connection between the teaching & its assessment of listening & speaking and the facilities, and 2. the relevance between teaching and the planned scenario for learning English.
Long-term goals
Every school in Miaoli is equipped with an English scenario simulation classroom closely related to teaching.
Plan for hosting English learning activities
Set objectives
- School-based English learning
- Exploit picture books to promote English reading competency learning
- English learning activities on a diversified platform
- Integration and interaction of the output resources of teachers’ professional growth
- English learning with the application of information technology to ease gaps between cities and rural areas.
Conducting items and implementing methods
- English Performance Presentation
- English summer camps
- Design webpages of Miaoli Area
- The English Village
- ETRC integrates every English collaborative project, workshop, and social media to boost the research and development of English teaching materials.
- Conduct the interactive learning program of listening to English broadcasts and set up reward systems.
- Encourage each school to set an English Day and uploads photos and outcomes to the ETRC website.
Operational Plans for ETRC
Set objectives
- Integrate the central government, local government, and schools to promote English education.
- Set up ETRC to conduct Miaoli’s overall English teaching planning
- Set up Miaoli’s ETRC website to share Miaoli’s resources of teaching and facilities.
Implementation
- Hold regular team meetings
- Holdperiodic meetings for the program ofupgrading the effectiveness of English teaching among elementary and junior high schools.
- The job responsibilityand requirement for foreign teachers in assisting to conduct the program of upgrading the effectiveness of English teaching among elementary and junior high schools.
- Assist MOE related programs
- Assist to host English teaching improvement workshops for English teachers in accordance to the upgrading the effectiveness of English teaching among elementary and junior high schools program.
- Host English Listening Tests for elementary and junior high teachers.
- Conduct the registration of the second certificationin English for elementary school teachers
- Assess the learning effectiveness of Miaoli’s elementary and junior high students.
- Integrate website resources of theEnglish Advisory Group and enrich the content of the ETRC website