AI-KUO Elementary School, San Min District, Kaohsiung

 

Brief History

In the spring of 1952, Department of Education of Kaohsiung City government established and named as AI-KUO Elementary School, San Ming District, Kaohsiung city.

In 1952, Mr. Min-Der Wang seated to be first principal, establishing school and started to enroll students.

In July 1997, start to execute the whole renewal plan of school building.

In December 1999, the first stage new school building erected and started the activities.

In August 2003, Mr. Shun-Hsaing Chen, the current principal, took over to be the eleventh principal.

Organization and Composition

The school is made up to of 23 classes from grade 1 to 6, 5 classes of kindergarten and 7classes of special-needs, totally 35 classes, 823 students, 68 teachers and administrative staffs.

Special-needs classes include 3 classes of general ability-gifted resources, 2 classes of hearing-teaching, non-classified resources class, talking-teaching class and pre-school special-needs class.

There are 2 classes of Annexed supplementary school, 1 class of Adult Basic-education, afford the service for uneducated people.

Administrative teamwork, including principal, 4 head-chief, 14 chief, personnel staffs and accounting staffs, offer administration-supporting services.

Beliefs and Objectives

Centered in the right of student’s education, involved with the contributions of the parents of the community, cooperate to develop the school.

Respect the right of teachers’ specializations in teaching guidance, create a warm, democratic and open culture of the school organization.

Renewal of buildings, enrich the equipments, afford an open, environment-protective, safe and modern, informative, internationalized education environment.

Cultivated modern 21st century citizens with humanity concern, integrating ability, democratic concept, country and international sense, pursuing whole-life continuous learning.

Prospects

Churchill, the former Premier of England, said “we erect the buildings first, then the buildings model us.” That is to say, the buildings and environment of school become the framework of education fashion and culture, the development beliefs and manpower exertion fulfill the education essentiality. Look forward to the future of the 21st century, leading the school into a happy-learning garden of community for teachers and students to challenge and explore the unlimited potentials and to exert the life-giving strength of organization.

The 21st century is the era of open education and education reformation. Also its the initial stage of nine-year consecutive curriculum of national education. The former Minister of Education, Chin-Jiang Lin, put forward the curriculum reformation as “Cultivate students possessing the basic ability of solving problem, reject the over-weighted school bags, and throw away complicated and im-practical knowledge teaching materials.” Expect the near future day, all the students in the school posses the necessary basic ability, decrease the burden of school-learning and delightedly say ”Let’s leave alone the school bag and go to catch sight of the cloud.


ADDRESS:1, Shih-Chuan 1st Road, San-Min District, Kaohsiung  

 TEL:07-3161191   FAX:07-3161193