Gunma Kokusai Academy
Gunma Kokusai Academy - Past, Present, and Future
Gunma Kokusai Academy (GKA) is an English-immersion school in Ota, Gunma, Japan for grades 1 to 12. This school was founded April 2004 by 6 teachers and the principal (Dr. Eugene Cooper). The preschool was opened in that year. The next year Gunma Kokusai Academy opened the first grade(106 students) and the fourth grade (59 students).In 2006 the second and the fifth grade were added to the school. In the following year the sixth and the third grade were added to the school. In April 2008 Gunma Kokusai Academy with have their first junior high class. Every year one grade is added to the school. By April 2011 the high school would start. In March 2013, Gunma Kokusai Academy`s first fourth graders would graduate high school.
Background of GKA
Gunma Kokusai Academy is the outcome of the globalization in Japan. As Japan and the rest of the world changes into a more advanced civilization, Monkasho(the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology)wants the Japanese people to be able to master English, the international language. Many people worried that Japanese children might not reach the international standards.
Objective of GKA
GKA`s two main objectives are to give the best education to the students(the same objective to every school in the world) and to give the students a sense of the world around them through immersion and open-classrooms method. Every Special Zone Schools helps the Monkasho`s efforts.
Positive and Negavite Sides of GKA
Positive - every children attending Gunma Kokusai Academy will stand to become leaders of the rapidly-changing world.