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Our Educational Goals
Education at the Forestopia Learning Forest
The Educational Goals of the Forestopia Learning Forest - Miyazaki Prefectural Gokase Secondary School.
Students cultivate sensitivity in this rich natural environment in Gokase. We provide an education which develops students' individuality, in order to cultivate talents who have a global perspective and can innovate for the future on their own initiative, with an abundant creativity.
The Educational Targets of the Forestopia Learning Forest - Miyazaki Prefectural Gokase Secondary School.
- We strive to develop students with strong minds and bodies, as well as a wide range of sensibilities, by providing an inspirational education.
- We strengthen students' intelligence by promoting active learning, or a "study-and-think-at-the-same-time" method. We also promote international education, and nurture students' spirit of respect for others.
- We focus on students' individual qualities and unique characteristics in order to provide proper career guidance.
Our Efforts
We seek to accelerate students' mental growth through all educational activities.
- We foster students' ability to educate themselves by providing well-devised school and dormitory events.
- We respect each student's humanity, individuality, and unique competencies, and help these qualities develop.
- We nurture students' social skills and humanity through experiential learning and activities.
- We effectively utilize the advantages of the mixed age and grade group of the school.
- We provide content-rich sex education to students.
- We provide quality educational counseling for students.
- We provide quality human rights education for students.
- We help students to acquire a good basic lifestyle and essential social customs.
- We encourage students to maintain dignity and pride as students of this school.
- We organize cleanup activities, such as school beautification activities, to help students cultivate a spirit of dedication.
- We ensure that we provide thorough health and safety education.
- We provide gymnastics and sports activities.
- We encourage students to wholeheartedly participate in physical education and sports education.
- We promote interaction with local residences and schools.
- We provide opportunities to work at vegetable gardens in dormitory "family" groups.
We strive to continually improve the services and programs we offer to our students, in order to provide quality career counseling and help improve students' basic academic skills.
- We organize curricula for the entire six-year program of education, and provide instruction for each subject according to the curricula.
- We value the basics and fundamentals of each subject. We entrench the basics and fundamentals in students through the continuous curricula.
- We provide training for teachers based on review and evaluation of their classes.
- We provide quality career counseling throughout the entire six-year period of education. We teach students how to be respectable and live a valuable life.
- We promote collaborative relationships with universities and other high schools by inviting visiting lecturers.
- We provide sufficient opportunities to learn about careers by implementing workplace experiences and inviting speakers from outside of the school.
- We continually improve the content of academic achievement review meetings and hold meetings to determine the next stage of each student's education. We provide instruction which is tailored to each student.
- We encourage international education in all curricula, and through special activities.
- We provide substantial book-reading activities through 10 minute reading sessions in the morning, and through book talks.
- We provide quality essay-writing instruction.
- We help students to improve the quality of their reports and presentations about personal and group research, through Forestopia Study projects.
We work to open up the school to the outside world.
- We encourage PTA activities such as area meetings, home visits, personal interviews and workshops.
- We promote cooperation with members of the local community, such as local residences, schools, and other organizations related to our school.
- We continually improve the content of meetings with School Evaluation Assembly members.
- We issue school news periodically, and encourage students to periodically issue news from each grade.
- We provide extension courses.
- We work on PR activities for municipal school boards and elementary schools in Miyazaki Prefecture.
- We produce content-rich presentation posters and brochures about the school.
- We provide a content-rich school website to promote the school effectively.
- We produce school calendars.
- We actively encourage school visits and mass media interviews.
We continually advance our study of the unified secondary education system in order to provide excellent educational programs.
- We produce supplementary teaching materials which correspond to the content and materials used throughout the six-year period of education.
- We devise and continually improve the content and teaching methods used in each academic subject.
- We continually research and evaluate our teaching targets and plans for each subject.
- We study how to provide educational guidance for students who are in the middle two years of our educational plan, an especially critical period.
We provide an excellent education at the dormitory.
- We foster students' self-management skills by letting them solve, by themselves, problems which appear in the course of communal living.
- We provide a substantial educational counseling system.
- We provide a reliable study environment and study counseling system.
- We provide a reliable health management system.
- We ensure that the framework for communicating with student guardians works properly.