Preschool and Compulsory Education 14 15 motivation,” the MOE hopes to increase students’ learning abilities, reinforce help for underprivileged students, and improve students’ ability to work with information. Social development has caused the population of the cities to grow, while businesses and people continue to move out of remote areas. The local economy in these areas has slowed down, jobs are hard to find, and children are often left to the care of grandparents. Education is where the values of social equity and social justice should be embodied. To enable each and every child to enjoy equal opportunities of adaptive development, the president promulgated on December 6, 2017, the “Act for Education Development of Schools in Remote Areas.” The Act specifies the length of a full-time teacher’s service, a flexible mechanism for hiring acting teachers and contract-based teachers, rewards and incentives to encourage long terms of service, methods of recruiting teachers and guidance counselors where they are needed, the importance of simplifying the administrative burden on schools, professional development opportunities nearby for the teachers, a supply of diverse learning resources for the students, and the provision of necessary facilities and equipment to schools in order to safeguard the students’ right to education in remote areas. K-12 Education Administration Interviewee: Chang Shu-o 3ULQFLSDO :DLVKH 1RQSURͤW 3UHVFKRRO At Waishe Preschool, children grow and learn through nature’s rhythms With over 40 years of experience running the Ci-Xin Waldorf School in Yilan County, the Ci-Xin Children Education Foundation is dedicated to promoting Waldorf education, which is based on the philosophy of Rudorf Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy. By founding the Waishe Nonprofit Preschool, the foundation aims to provide parents with an affordable preschool education option and to understand children’s development indepth. The Waishe Nonprofit Preschool has the four core values of “equal and mutual respect,” “professional consolidation,” “public-private cooperation,” and “community interaction,” providing an authentic, simplistic, and warm learning environment that values nature. In line with Waldorf education principles, the school’s education focuses on “rhythms and repetition” as well as “role models and imitation” at the preschool stage and does not teach children to read, write, and do math. At Waishe, children enjoy ample time and space to develop their creativity within a routine of fixed rhythm. The school provides a learning environment that imbues children with a sense that the world is good and nurtures children’s senses as well as relationships based on love, respect, and care. The curriculum at Waishe follows the theme of the four seasons, allowing children to feel how theweather andenvironment changes throughout the year through circle time, stories, festivals, and walks within the community. The school also combines Taiwan’s traditional holidays and events such as the Lantern Festival, spring outings, Dragon Boat Festival, graduation, MidAutumn Festival, and Winter Solstice to let children experience life and local cultures,
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