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COVID-19: Schools urged to ensure quality education
By Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter
The National Federation of Teachers’ Unions yesterday urged education authorities to pay attention to the quality of online classes offered to students with disabilities.
The quality of learning for students with disabilities, specifically those with visual impairments, should not be compromised because of the COVID-19 situation in Taiwan, the union said.
As with in-person learning, students with visual impairments need audio descriptions when learning online, it said.
A student in Taichung participates in an online class on Wednesday last week.
Photo: Su Ching-feng, Taipei Times
If the dialog boxes or images that pop up on the screen during a livestream do not come with any descriptions, the information that students with visual impairments receive would be fragmented and incoherent, it said.
Representatives from the National Federation of Teachers’ Unions hold placards at a news conference in Taipei yesterday, calling on the legislature to be fair during its review, scheduled for tomorrow, of the Act Governing Retirement, Severance and Bereavement Compensation for the Teaching and Other Staff Members of Public Schools.
MOTC ignoring protocols: teachers’ group
By Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter
The National Federation of Teachers’ Unions yesterday accused the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC) of ignoring proper protocols for developing school curriculums, after it found that schools had been asked to teach traffic safety as part of their non-Ministry of Education (MOE)-mandated curriculums.
The MOE’s 12-year Basic Education Curriculum Guidelines, which were adopted in 2019, mandate that elementary, junior and senior-high schools teach a “MOE-mandated curriculum” alongside a “school-developed curriculum.”
The former is “planned by the government to develop students’ basic learning ability and establish a development foundation according to students’ aptitudes,” while the latter is “designed and offered by each school to highlight the school’s vision of education and facilitate students’ development according to their aptitudes,” the guidelines s
Cabinet draft bill on private school closure slammed
By Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter
The National Federation of Teachers’ Unions (NFTU) and the Taiwan Higher Education Union yesterday said that the Executive Yuan’s draft of a proposed act to regulate the closure of private senior-high schools, universities and colleges would mean less oversight of targeted schools by the government.
The Executive Yuan’s version of the proposed act has raised many questions since it was released on Nov. 19, the federation and union said in a statement.
Compared with a draft published in April by the Ministry of Education, the Executive Yuan’s version would mean looser supervision of schools that officials regard as needing special guidance, they said.