雲林縣虎尾國民小學雲林縣虎尾國民小學

    Address: No.88, Mingzheng Rd,Huwei Township,Yunlin County

    Area: 3.94 hectares

    In order to enhance teaching effectiveness and impress students with learning materials, teachers not only make good of teaching aids/media but also apply various teaching methods such as group discussion, term cooperation, inspiring creation, encouraging thinking and so on in their instruction.

    Teachers take part in the in-service trainings on Wednesdays, when teachers share their teaching experiences and information to help improve their own teaching.

    There are abundant teaching aids and software in the teaching-aid room.

    In order to improve the evaluation and increase the diversity of homework, teachers and students have to collect materials, observe, and experiment.

    Implement CAI, which is students’ favorite.

    Teaching seminars and demonstrations are held to improve teachers’ professional abilities.

    A school magazine is published regularly. Our school magazines have won the first prize in the contest in 1997 and 2005.  Many teachers’ and students’ good works are collected in the school magazines. 

    Help teachers deal with students’academic records and data by computerization. 

    In order to make students have easier access to reading materials, we equip the library with more books and computerize the library’s affairs. Besides, students are encouraged to write down what they have read. We also publish the library papers regularly.

    The primary goal of Student Affair Office is to guide students to learn about the way of getting along with others, acquaint them with morals, and then help them become decent students.

    Promote self-governed activities among students, including the election for student-mayor of self-governed town, strengthen children’s autonomy, and increase the knowledge of democratic participation.

    In order to strengthen life-discipline education, the honor-system is a positive way for encouraging students’ to behave well.  Students who achieve the highest standard in the system can be taken a picture with the principal.

    According to teachers’ specialties, there are various morning activities, such as kickboxing, karate, clay, in-line skating, basketball and table tennis, for students to take part in. Students can choose one which interest them most.

    Hold plural physical activities that can motivate students’ team spirit, such as sports meetings, tug of war, fun fair, etc.

    Prepare nutritional lunch for students and emphasize nutrition education.

    Reinforce students’ traffic protection and safety during the time of going to and leaving school:

    In order to avoid having traffic jam in the entrance area, the spacious area around the gymnasium is mapped out in a proper way so as to make parents follow the given route to wait for/pick up their children on campus.

    In order to enhance the safety of students, a community-service network consisted mostly of volunteer mothers runs on campus. Rain or shine, these volunteers devote themselves in traffic control in rush hour.

    Make efforts in environmental-protection education: all teachers and students are earnest in doing recycling, garbage-classification and reducing the amount of garbage. Every Thursday, the leader of environmental-protection leads his members to do recycling unconditionally and uncomplainingly.

    The aim of guidance activities is to help students form positive self-concept and fulfill themselves. Counseling office, equipping with numerous facilities, is a place with warmness.

    Counseling office draws up and implements plural guidance and counseling activities, such as teacher respecting movement, Mother’s Day celebration, mental hygiene education, flea market, parent education, special education and self-protection.

    To highlight special education, we have four special-education teachers who make good use of teaching facilities and devote themselves in both teaching and caring for students with special needs. Our school has been graded ‘Excellent’ in the country-wide special-education evaluation project.

    We promote effective parent education, including gender education, parent effectiveness training, knowledge about special children, communication skills between parents and children, parent-teacher association etc. In order to enhance the communication between parents and teachers, parents are encouraged to participate in activities relevant to their children’s school life.

    Meetings are held for the parents who have children with special needs, and they are for helping these parents cope with various problems regarding special education at home. All the teachers are encouraged as well to take part in adoption-guidance program which aims to care for students with behavioral problems and lacking supports from their family. Our aim is “No child left behind.”

    Our school building is splendid and magnificent. Multi-media teaching aides are utilized in every classroom to enhance the teaching effect.

    The library is filled with books which students would enjoy reading. In order to cultivate students’ habit of reading, we have yearly budget for more new books and equipment.

   There are enough equipment and abundant learning vcd in the audio-visual classroom. 

    Improve the equipment in the computer classroom, so the goals of information education could be reached more efficiently.

    The spacious playground is the students’ favorite area during the breaks.

    There is more than enough athletic equipment in the gymnasium, which makes it convenient to have indoor activities there. Besides, we provide a nice place where the community can do exercise.

    Colleagues communicate with each other better when working in the modern office where the four administration departments are set.

    Teachers are free to get materials for teaching in the affair area.