persons’ organizations, teaching assistants and special education student
assistants are often used interchangeably in actual practice. Thus, the MOE has
formulated the Regulations for Establishing Special Education Classes and
Responsible Units and Recruiting Personnel for Schools K-12, in which it is
stipulated that personnel be recruited and perform their duties in compliance with
the law to prevent personnel from being used interchangeably. Nevertheless, the
NHRC asserts that the aforementioned phenomenon illustrates that the number
of service hours currently provided are insufficient to meet the needs of special
education students. In particular, this assertion is supported by the fact that some
special education schools even require parents or foreign caregivers (hired by the
students’ parents) to accompany and care for their children in school. Thus, the
MOE merely formulating regulations mandating that cities and counties recruit
personnel and have them perform their duties in compliance with the law is
insufficient in meeting the needs of special education students. The MOE must
actively propose countermeasures for the lack of overall manpower.
110. Pursuant to General Comment No. 4 of the CRPD, all teachers and other staff
must receive education and training they need to give them the core values and
competencies to accommodate inclusive learning environments. According to the
CRPD Second Report, ordinary class teachers must attend special education
workshops for at least three hours per year. Between 2016 and 2019,
approximately 77% of ordinary class teachers attended more than three hours of
said workshops per year. This signified that as much as 23% of ordinary class
teachers chose to only meet the minimum requirement. Additionally, the
effectiveness of the training was difficult to verify. Concerning the above issues,
the MOE indicated in a response letter to the NHRC that it had reminded all cities
and counties to improve the special education knowledge and skills of their
ordinary class teachers, and demanded that teachers of ordinary classes
containing students with autism and/or emotional disorders receive training in
priority before taking these students on. Nevertheless, such measures are
insufficient to promote inclusive education comprehensively, and the NHRC
suggests that the MOE increase the number of training hours and make the course
content more diversified.
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