On March 29, the "Miaoli Seed School Curriculum Collaboration Meeting" was held at Xinyi Elementary School in Miaoli County. It was held in the aesthetically pleasing "Glimmer Butterfly House" (library) in the style of a "World Cafe". In addition to Principal Zhong Ruirong and Director Lai Jiaxiu of Xinyi Elementary School, and Superintendent Tu Yucai of the Miaoli County Government Education Department, attendees also included project co-host Professor Chen Yunwen and teacher training and cooperation university committee member Professor Luo Shilong, who prepared a total of study.
The locations and curriculum focus of the five schools are unique to each of them. The school-wide curriculum "Rope Magic Skills" developed by Xinyi Elementary School in Toufen City starts from rope skipping for health and sports, and combines visual arts, nature and life science and technology, and performing arts. It connects across subjects at all grades to guide Students completed silk prints on the theme of skipping rope, explored the principles of spider webs and rope knots, the relationship between skipping rope material, length, weight and skipping ability, and tried creative dance. The themed courses at Wenshan Elementary School in Miaoli City focus on traffic safety and disaster prevention education. Based on picture books drawn by the principal himself, various and lively and interesting teaching methods are used in different grades through jingles, bilingual teaching, board games, drama, bicycle riding, etc. activities to integrate relevant issues into the curriculum; Xinkai Elementary School in Dahu Township takes hand puppet making as the focus of the curriculum, leading students to use techniques such as resin clay to mold puppet heads and sew puppet clothes to create puppets from scratch. Each puppet has its own unique shape, and Huang Wushan, the director of the Shanwanran Hakka Puppet Troupe, was invited to guide the puppet performance. This semester, local materials such as Lao Guandao will be combined with Hakka and English to develop a conversational script. , allowing students to perform collectively created stories with homemade puppets.
Jiaopu Elementary School in Yuanli Town also develops a whole-school curriculum and continues to strengthen the characteristics of stone tiger conservation. This semester, it further introduces current affairs issues through students’ favorite cartoon characters, allowing them to not only become "woodworking makers" and make children's toys, but also Using stop-motion animation and the digital drama module of the National Central University Human-Computer Interaction and Learning Laboratory, the results of student performances can be spread, and the concept of ecological conservation can also be deeply cultivated in children's minds; Tongguang Elementary School in Houlong Town uses technology as the basis The main axis of the course continues the development characteristics of robots. This semester combines art and Chinese courses to guide students to understand the art of rap and the interest of language, create cross talk scripts, and also improve robot programming so that the robot can eventually interact with students and perform together. A special "human-machine cross talk".
Although most of the Seed Schools in Miaoli are small schools, under the careful creation of Seed teachers, every course is full of energy and vitality. Looking forward to the beautiful results of future course development!