The purpose of this study is to find an efficient after-school education program to develop schoolchildren's talent, specialty and aptitude and to reduce private education expenses through inquiring into cognizance of schoolchildren, teachers and scho...
The purpose of this study is to find an efficient after-school education program to develop schoolchildren's talent, specialty and aptitude and to reduce private education expenses through inquiring into cognizance of schoolchildren, teachers and school parents.
The goal of this study is to investigate the four specific subjects as below;
First, I grasped the current situation of after school Chinese education at elementary school in Yong-in Region.
Second, I carried out a survey for cognizance and preference of schoolchildren, teachers and school parents about Chinese education.
Third, through the understanding of private education expenses, I found a solution to reduce such expenses with an after school education program.
And last, on the base of the results of the above three subjects, I pointed out problems and suggested improvements for the after school Chinese education program
The results of this study can be summarized as below;
Most of the teachers who teach Chinese in after school education programs at elementary school, they are thinking that the Chinese education is needed in elementary school and it can help schoolchildren develop their talents and specialties.
The schoolchildren, who are taking an after school education program, have an interest in Chinese class and want to take Chinese education programs which use various media. And it is shown similar proportion to make the decision for taking Chinese class between choosing by themselves and mom’s recommendation. They, also, think that 6 to 10 students per class are suitable for Chinese education program.
The school parents are aware of the importance and necessity of Chinese but their thoughts mostly focus on English.
And most of their children are taking the class, after formal school education, either private education or after school education. The reason why they choose an after school education is that it has inexpensive tuition and various programs.
Meanwhile, they want experts from the outside for teachers, less than 10 students per class, a range of 26,000won to 30,000won for tuition per class and same aged class by achievement levels in after school Chinese education program.
Regarding contents of the class, they prefer Chinese for daily lives and programs for the sake of arousing the children’s interest.
The problems in the current after school Chinese education that were revealed from this study are listed below;
Internally, there are many problems those are an assignment of classrooms in school, setting up a language learning environment, guarantee of minimum wage for teachers, restoring credibility to the formal school education and effective public relations.
Also externally there are problems such as development of suitable teaching material for each level, making professional training programs for teachers and providing an expert teachers’ pool from the outside.
The current after school education program is having an effective role in finding and developing student’s talent and aptitude. However, in order to expend such role and to operate more efficiently, it has to avoid the trap of the uniformity and inflexibility of formal school education, and further, it should be a more developed flexible education program to make students continue to learn the education contents in accord with their needs.