Part VI >
Essays on Human Rights
development, and the planning of teaching
training to students of teacher’s colleges, school
to explaining the various issues, the handbook
awareness and understanding of human rights
materials and teaching venue design. In addition
must clarify how to understand and analyze these
issues in terms of the values and principles of
human rights advocated in the UDHR, CRC, and
other international human rights documents. It
should be emphasized that the handbook should
be prepared in ways that teachers of different
backgrounds can understand, while preventing
overemphasis on citation of legal rules and
regulations.
V. Expanding talents recruitment
and fostering professional
competencies
In teacher training, it is necessary to optimize
the training system for human rights teachers
and improve the support measures. Although
training activities for human rights teachers
have been held for some time in Taiwan, there
is still room for improvement in understanding
the human rights concept. It is recommended
that the training courses should be based
on the different life experiences of citizens
of different genders, ethnicity, cultures, and
socioeconomic backgrounds. They should avoid
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staff, and textbook publishers to improve their
issues. Moreover, administrative support should
be so arranged, as much as possible, to help
teachers eliminate the barriers of participation,
for example, by offering the pay for substitute
teachers and travel expenses.
VI. I m p r o v i n g r i g h t s a n d
workplace environment for
teachers
Regarding the campus human rights
environment, it is necessary to improve teacher
rights and their workplace. According to the
“Plan of Action for the First Phase of the World
Programme for Human Rights Education,” for
the teachers to promote human rights education
effectively, teachers must first be rights-
holders: “The recognition of and respect for
their professional status and the upholding of
their self-esteem are a prerequisite for them to
promote human rights education.” Due to a labor
shortage and long teaching hours problems,
the MOE should fill up staff shortage as quickly
as possible, particularly for schools in remote
overemphasis on legal codes and concepts, and
townships and offshore islands and schools
such as what is dignity; what are rights; and the
reduce teacher-student ratio or increase the
of human rights. And as human rights issues are
relieving the stress of teachers, more personnel
courses, it is necessary to empower teachers in
placement and better guidance. Additionally, it
plan diversified, systemic training modules based
international human rights conventions for the
types of schools, as well as to provide necessary
local counties and cities to help teachers identify
the investigation should include broader ideas,
of students with special needs. The goal is to
universality, indivisibility, and interdependency
number of teaching assistants. Apart from
interdisciplinary and incorporated into existing
means better care for students, better teacher
different areas and of different subjects and to
is also necessary to provide training courses in
on the needs of teachers at different levels and
teacher counseling and consultation systems in
resources. Additionally, it is necessary to extend
and handle campus human rights problems.
National Human Rights Commission 2022 Annual Report