The Curriculum 課綱現況
How the twelve-year framework is organized, and what the 108 guidelines changed.
Twelve years, three stages 十二年三階段
Basic education runs twelve years in three stages: six years of primary school, three of junior high, and three of senior secondary — the last split between general high schools and vocational programmes. Attendance through junior high is universal; senior secondary is broad-access under the current framework.
Senior secondary students stream by track: general, vocational (industrial, commercial, agricultural, marine, household economics and others), and comprehensive high schools that mix both under one roof.
The 108 guidelines 108 課綱
The curriculum guidelines now in force — known as the 108 guidelines after the school year they began — were issued field by field from 2018 and have applied since the 2019 school year, rolling forward one grade at a time from the first year of primary, junior high and senior secondary.
Their organizing idea is competency: fewer memorized outlines, more project work, cross-field themes and a slice of flexible learning time each week that schools shape themselves. A capstone 'flexible learning project' in senior secondary was the most debated addition.
In the classroom now 課堂現況
A typical primary week balances literacy and numeracy with English, integrative activities and, from the guidelines, more frequent mother-tongue and regional language electives. Senior secondary students combine required cores with elective 'inquiry and practice' courses.