Meet the excellent teachers recognized by the education ministry
Meet the excellent teachers recognized by the education ministry
2024-11-03
Perhaps you’ve had a few teachers for whom you’re still grateful to this day. Tonight we’re meeting two teachers who have won the 2024 Ministry of Education’s National Excellent Teacher Award. One of them is Wu Hsiao-ching, a dance teacher at Taichung’s Wen-Hua Senior High School. The other is Hsieh Shih-tsung , who’s just retired as the principal of Miaoli Agricultural and Industrial Vocational High School. What makes them great educators is not just their knowledge or skills, but the fact that they’ve gone out of their way to help students overcome life’s challenges. Here’s our Sunday special report.
Dancers move elegantly with the music. This is a ballet rehearsal at Wen-Hua Senior High School’s dance class. The teacher Wu Hsiao-ching looks on and oversees every move — with a smile and nods, to support the students.
Wu Hsiao-ching
Wen-Hua Senior High School
Even right before they go onstage, if they turn their head back, a gaze and a nod from you would really warm their heart. They’d think, the teacher’s right behind us and supporting us, we can do this.
Wu learned ballet as a young child. Following the footsteps of her father, teaching became her vocation. She’s taught dance at Wen Hua Senior High School for almost 30 years now. For the students, she’s like a doting mother.
Wu Hsiao-ching
Wen-Hua Senior High School
I think when it comes to students, when you see a longing gaze from them, you need to immediately be able to decipher what it is that they need. So when that happens I’ll ask, “Is everything alright? Do you need to talk?” If you see them holding back tears, then something must be going on.
And the class really is like a second family. Dance students have to live in the dorms for all three years of high school. Teachers and students spend most of their hours together.
Like a mother would do, sometimes there are unexpected locker checks. She also makes sure they’re always well-dressed and put together.
Wu Hsiao-ching
Wen-Hua Senior High School
I think learning art, dance or sports is very different from conventional school subjects. It’s a bit like the master-apprentice model, so the relationship between teacher and students is quite different.
Leafing through the yearbook, Chung Pei-chin was transported back in time. Twenty years ago, she was a dance student at Wen Hua’s , and had the nickname Niu Niu. After 20 years, she’s returned to her alma mater to teach the next generation of dancers.
Wu looks on with pride as Chung leads the class. Their close relationship started 25 years ago, during the Jiji Earthquake. Chung was in her third year then. Classes were suspended in its aftermath, but Chung, whose family was in Puli could not go home. At the tender age of 18, she cried all alone in the dorms.
Wu Hsiao-ching
Wen-Hua Senior High School
She was alone. She needed me, so I thought I’d take her with me. I said to Niu Niu, “Come stay at my place, it’s not a problem. Stay as long as you want.”
Chung Pei-chin
Wen-Hua Senior High School alumnus
It’s great that she was there for me at that time. It was really heartwarming, and that’s an understatement. It was more like, I was struggling to keep my head above water, and someone extended a helping hand. She’s not just a distant lighthouse showing you the direction. She’ll actually always be there with us every step on the way.
He’s all smiles as he greets students. It’s hard to believe he’s the principal of this other school.
Hsieh Shih-tsung
Miaoli Agricultural and Industrial Vocational High School
The ages between 15 and 18 are a time when they have the most energy in life. As educators, our job is to ignite their passion.
Sixty-five-year-old Hsieh Shih-tsung had been a teacher for 41 years, and was the principal when he retired mid-2024. He pays extra attention to underprivileged students, having been one himself.
Hsieh Shih-tsung
Miaoli Agricultural and Industrial Vocational High School
I grew up in an economically underprivileged family myself. My father was a carpenter, so his income was seasonal. But registration usually falls around the Lunar New Year. So my mother had to ask relatives and neighbors to borrow money. Looking on as she heads out to do that every year during the Lunar New Year really left an impression on me.
At noon, students take out leftover school lunch. Shortly after, volunteers start packing it up storing it in the refrigerator. Instead of the food going to waste, it can now be dinner for underprivileged students. Other initiatives Hsieh introduced included organizing giveaways of secondhand school uniform and textbooks, greatly alleviating the financial burden for these students’ families.
Hsieh Shih-tsung
Miaoli Agricultural and Industrial Vocational High School
In my entire teaching career, I’ve been a homeroom teacher for 19 years, so I was the very first point of contact for students. As soon as they enter the classroom, just by looking at their facial expression, I’d know if there’s something on their mind.
Chang Yu-chieh, a recent graduate of Miaoli Agricultural and Industrial Vocational High School, lost his father this year, arguably the most crucial period of time for highschoolers.
Chang Yu-chieh
Miaoli Agricultural and Industrial Vocational High School alumnus
I felt the most helpless when my father passed away. It was two weeks before the technical university entrance exam. My father passed away two hours after I went to see him at the hospital, so I didn’t feel like taking the exam.
Hsieh Shih-tsung
Miaoli Agricultural and Industrial Vocational High School
For trade students, if they’ve won in skills competitions, then they have a better chance of entering a public university. He’s participated in many competitions, so from there I went on to check on him and ask him if he needed any help.
Hsieh, who went to a trades school himself, knew just how to turn the students’ lives for the better. He helped Chang with handling his late father’s affairs, and encouraged him not to give up on skills competitions and the technical university entrance exam. With Hsieh’s mentorship, Chang pushed on.
Hsieh Shih-tsung
Miaoli Agricultural and Industrial Vocational High School
Children who grew up in adverse situations are more mature and determined. After results for the technical university entrance exam came out. Chang Yu-chieh had the highest score in the chemical engineering cohort. It’s really quite an achievement.
Chang Yu-chieh
Miaoli Agricultural and Industrial Vocational High School alumnus
It wasn’t only the principal. The homeroom teacher and department head also encouraged me. I really struggled to move on then, though in some ways I still am.
At the time of recording, Chang’s father had only passed away for five months. It’s hard to imagine how much he’s gone through, yet he still got into the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, his top choice. Hsieh witnessed this just before he retired at the end of July, 2024, after 41 years as a teacher.
Hsieh Shih-tsung
Miaoli Agricultural and Industrial Vocational High School
He not only gave me a present when he graduated. On July 31, my last day at Miaoli Agricultural and Industrial Vocational High School, he came all the way from home and waited to see me at the office. It really touched my heart.
It’s often said that education is a thankless job. Sometimes even the simplest gestures of kindness could make their days.
Wu Hsiao-ching
Wen-Hua Senior High School
She makes bento boxes from scratch, and would come to the classroom to share them with me. When I think about it, I still think it’s all worth it. Even when you’re not feeling so well, the students and parents still have your back.
Chung Pei-chin
Wen-Hua Senior High School alumnus
Because of her, now as a teacher, I try to be like her, be a rock for students.
Now that she’s on the other side of the classroom, Chung can really appreciate all that a teacher does. The most important thing is to make sure no one is left behind and build every student up.
Hsieh Shih-tsung
Miaoli Agricultural and Industrial Vocational High School
Perhaps to our trade students, if we give them a ladder to reach the heights of their trade, they will.
It’s the greatest feeling in the world for these teachers to see how far students can go. But it’s even better when they get to witness students’ growth no matter how long it’s been since graduation.
Wu Hsiao-ching
Wen-Hua Senior High School
If you need me, as long as you’re willing to come back, I’ll always be here. That’s all really.
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2024-11-03
相信在您的求學路上，一定有幾位讓您印象深刻、特別感念的老師。這個單元，我們就要帶您認識兩位，今年獲得師鐸獎的教師。其中一位是台中文華高中舞蹈班老師－吳曉菁；而另一位是苗栗農工退休校長謝世宗。對學生來說，他們不只是老師，更是拉他們一把的貴人，是影響一輩子的心靈捕手。帶您看他們跟學生之間，令人動容的故事。
隨著音樂翩然起舞，舞者舉手投足間，優雅又唯美，這是台中文華高中舞蹈班，為表演進行的彩排，一旁的指導老師吳曉菁，緊盯每個細節，仍不忘笑著點頭，給學生最大支持。
[[台中文華高中舞蹈班召集人 吳曉菁]]
“就算他們要上場之前，他一回頭，你那眼神，這樣子點頭，孩子他的心裡的能量會起來，會覺得說，好，老師在後面支持我們，我可以”
吳曉菁從小學芭蕾，受到父親教書的影響，「當老師」成了她的志業，她在文華高中舞蹈班服務近30年，是學生口中的「曉菁媽咪」。
[[台中文華高中舞蹈班召集人 吳曉菁]]
“我覺得老師對學生來講，當孩子那渴望的眼神，看著你的時候，你必須要馬上去讀得到，他需要你幫忙什麼，我就會問他說，你還好嗎，需不需要聊一聊，你看到孩子眼眶紅了，你大概就知道他一定有什麼事”
老師要教的何止是跳舞，文華高中舞蹈班，高一到高三通通住宿，師生朝夕相處，真的如同一家人。
老師就像媽媽，偶爾突襲檢查置物櫃，整齊清潔是基本要求，就像每位舞者，對自己的身材儀態，妝髮儀容，絲毫不能鬆懈。
[[台中文華高中舞蹈班召集人 吳曉菁]]
“我覺得學藝術，舞蹈，或學體育這些，因為我覺得我們有點師徒制，所以感覺跟一般學科的，師生情會不太一樣”
翻看畢業舞冊，回憶全湧上心頭，20多年前，鍾佩芹是舞蹈班學生，老師親暱的叫她「妞妞」，20多年過去，妞妞當了老師，回到母校指導學妹。
妞妞老師上課，教室外一雙眼睛，滿是「青出於藍勝於藍」的驕傲，兩人深厚的感情，源自於25年前的921大地震，那年妞妞高三，學校因地震停課，家住埔里的她回不去，一個18歲的女孩，孤零零的躲在宿舍裡哭。
[[台中文華高中舞蹈班召集人 吳曉菁]]
“孤零零的，她需要我，所以我會想要把她帶在身邊，我就跟妞妞說，來住我家吧，沒問題的，妳要住多久都可以”
[[台中文華高中舞蹈班第七屆畢業生 鍾佩芹]]
“好在這個時候有老師，可以在這個時間點，你會覺得溫暖的感覺，不是說好溫暖，不是只有這樣，就是你當下會覺得，你快要溺水了，真的有人這樣拉你一把。老師不是只是引領方向的那一個燈塔而已，她不是在遠方，她是會一直站在我們身邊，陪著你走的”
滿臉笑容主動和學生打招呼，這個校長很不一樣。
[[苗栗農工退休校長 謝世宗]]
“15歲到18歲，還是他們一生當中，最有活力的年齡層，我們當教育工作者，就是把他們的熱情引發出來”
65歲的謝世宗從事教職41年，從老師到校長，他對於弱勢的學生格外照顧，源自於自身的成長背景。
[[苗栗農工退休校長 謝世宗]]
“我本身是來自於經濟弱勢的家庭，爸爸是木匠，收入是有季節性的，可是過年後就是要註冊，所以我媽媽，必須去跟鄰居，親戚借錢，每次媽媽過年後，走出去家門的背影，讓我印象很深”
中午時分，各班同學抬走午餐，沒多久志工開始分裝多出的食物，打包後放進冰箱，學校連弱勢學生的晚餐一併照顧。除了愛心惜福餐，集中二手制服和二手書籍，讓學生省下開支，這都是謝世宗的點子。
[[苗栗農工退休校長 謝世宗]]
“我在整個教學歷程當中，我有19年的時間擔任導師，所以是第一線跟孩子接觸，學生進到教室來，我從他的表情當中，我就可以知道，他有沒有心事在自己心裡”
剛從苗栗農工畢業的張昱傑，這一年來歷經父親中風成植物人之後驟逝，他的高三生活，瞬間跌入谷底。
[[苗栗農工化工科畢業生 張昱傑]]
“最無助是我爸走的那時候，因為在統測前兩週，我爸在我到醫院兩個小時後就走了，統測我也沒有心情去考”
[[苗栗農工退休校長 謝世宗]]
“以技職學生來講，從技藝訓練如果有得名，上國立大學的機會就會比較多，他(張昱傑)本身又是技藝選手，所以我就從這一方面來切入，先了解他的心理狀態，問他需不需要什麼協助”
出身技職的謝世宗，很清楚技職生能如何翻轉，他協助張昱傑處理父親後事，鼓勵他不要放棄，技藝選手培訓和統測，師長一路陪伴，讓學生不會是孤軍奮戰。
[[苗栗農工退休校長 謝世宗]]
“在逆境中成長的孩子，他比較早熟，也比較有毅力，所以統測考完之後，成績公布出來，張昱傑是整個化工群最高的，真的很不容易”
[[苗栗農工化工科畢業生 張昱傑]]
“不只校長，連班導跟當時的科主任也有鼓勵，因為那時候幾乎走不出去，雖然現在也還沒走出去”
受訪時距離父親驟逝，才短短五個月，張昱傑眼神中的哀戚，讓人很不忍，但他挺過考驗，考上第一志願台科大，而春風化雨41年的謝世宗，七月底退休了。
[[苗栗農工退休校長 謝世宗]]
“他除了畢業要離開學校的時候，有送禮物，7月31日是我在苗栗農工最後一天，他(張昱傑)特地從家裡，來到化工科等我，我就覺得，哇，非常窩心”
老師偶爾也會迷網，懷疑自己做得不夠好，老師也需要被鼓勵，一個問候，一張卡片，蘊藏滿滿的正能量。
[[台中文華高中舞蹈班召集人 吳曉菁]]
“她(妞妞)就會自己手做便當，拿到教室給我吃，那個感覺到現在想起來，還是會，你就覺得值得了，在你覺得比較低潮的時候，你的學生，你的家長，都會有人默默關心你”
[[台中文華高中舞蹈班第七屆畢業生 鍾佩芹]]
“因為老師這樣，所以我覺得現在在教學上，我也都很希望可以像她一樣，都可以當學生的定心丸”
當了老師，更能體會師者的不容易，投身杏壇，不是為了學生功成名就，而是期盼抓住每個徬徨的靈魂，給予指引和力量。
[[苗栗農工退休校長 謝世宗]]
“也許我們技職的學生，我們是給他一張梯子，讓他站上舞台，去鑽研他的領域，那他同樣的，他會站上舞台受到肯定”
當老師最大的成就感，就是看到學生找到自己，而這份師生間的關愛，無論距離遠近，時間長短，終生保固。
[[台中文華高中舞蹈班召集人 吳曉菁]]
“你們如果需要我，只要你願意回來，我都在，就這樣”
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