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[News from our newspaper in Taipei] Cultivating cross-field talents is the spirit of the new national education curriculum for the 12th year. It is a "cross-field aesthetic education innovation movement" led by teachers. Over the past five years, more than 10,000 teachers and students have participated, with a total of 177 The school has developed more than 200 cross-field aesthetic experimental lesson plans. Some sing chemical elements into hip-hop rap songs, and some use rulers to draw giant sand paintings. These lesson plans will become the "database" for the new cross-field curriculum design. A "Field Model" will be published at the end of the year and sent to all primary and secondary schools, high schools and normal universities in Taiwan.

"My dada's horse hooves are running towards you at full speed, and my deep eyes are like black holes. Einstein said that the gravity field distorts space and time." This is a hip-hop work by Pingtung High School students, led by music teacher Huang Jinlan and chemistry teacher Zhang Yaochang. In the "Rap ATP" class, students not only created their own lyrics and music, but also used mathematical formulas or their favorite scientists to create hip-hop rap results in groups, which were published at the end of the semester.

Huang Jinlan said that during the process, students were less able to master the tone of rapping and failed many times. Therefore, she spent special time training students to rap, and they had to come up with the melody, chords and words by themselves. Students have made great breakthroughs by switching from the "receptive" learning mode they were accustomed to in the past to active presentation and live performance.

Plastic rope, iron rake

Creative compasses are so special

Wang Zixiang, an art teacher at Pengnan Junior High School in Penghu, asked students to draw the customs and customs of the community, as well as the cultural or natural landscape of Penghu. After checking the feasibility of the drawings, he asked mathematics teacher Zheng Weijie to co-teach and discuss with the students how to use scales and straight lines in mathematics. Use ruler and compass to draw the selected figure.

"Creating on the beach must have the right time, place, and right people," Wang Zixiang said. In addition to checking whether the beach is flat, the tide must also recede to the "moment of the greatest tidal range," and it must be when students are in school. Painting begins when the tide begins to recede, and the time is only ninety minutes. The "painting tools" are plastic ropes and iron rakes that serve as compasses.

Breaking down subject boundaries

Art becomes a contact platform

In the fifth year since the launch of the "Medium and Long-term Plan for Aesthetic Education" of the Ministry of Education, the funding for aesthetic experience, which is spearheaded by the Department of Teachers and Arts Education of the Ministry of Education, has been allocated year by year from 100 million in 2014 to more than 300 million in 2018. Yuan, the first phase of the plan will be completed by the end of the year, and the second phase of the five-year plan will be announced at the end of this month. Next year, there will be an increase from this year, and 340 million yuan will be allocated. Zheng Yuanquan, director of the Department of Teachers and Arts, said that in the second period, attention should be paid to the connection with the new curriculum.

Zhao Huiling, host of the project and dean of the School of Art at National Taiwan Normal University, said she hopes to break the boundaries of disciplines and make art a platform to connect various disciplines and communicate and integrate with other disciplines. She believes that the cross-disciplinary aesthetic courses are "very organic" in appearance. Diversity and teachers from different subjects will produce different course styles due to different backgrounds and discussions.

Xia Xueliang, deputy convener of the 12-year National Education Art Curriculum Training Working Group, pointed out that from the documentary "Seeing Taiwan" and the "fake, evil and ugly" scenes that can be observed everywhere, they represent the places where children live, street signs, and large-scale As for Taiwan's overall landscape, it is still a big issue that needs to be actively faced and resolved by the government, society, and the people.

"Although beauty is a feeling, the mentality and practice of aesthetic education must not be empty." Xia Xueliang said that we should let it flow into the blood of the people and ingrain beauty into daily life.