Intake Reading in Izumi High School

Ikeda High School of Osaka Prefecture has employed the Intake Reading Method since the school year of 2005. The school takes part in SELHi Program, and chose IRM as its research theme. The English education of the school is said to have achieved significant gains, however rudimentary the gains may be.
Izumi High School, in the meantime, has changed itself significantly, has given satisfactory educational showings, and is considered to be one of the prestigious public high schools in Osaka Prefecture. We could not, and would not, however, be satisfied with these elemental achievements, and are pressing forward to improve its classes farther to build a firm base to make its second century as great as the first century after its foundation.
English Department of Izumi High School has contributed to the school's success, and has provided students with certain English competence sufficient enough to pass the entrance examinations of prestigious universities. Needless to say, however, cramming is neither the goal nor the measures of the English education at public high schools. We are expected to provide multi-dimentional English competence to our students. Passing the examinations is only one aspect of it.
To meet the demands, we are to introduce the Intake Reading Method into our classes of English I and II. The introduction will inevitably enable us to improve the students' listening and reading skills on their course of understanding the text.