News source: Blessings in the World/Du Xianchang
News link:http://www.merit-times.com.tw/NewsPage.aspx?Unid=521827

The 12-year national education curriculum emphasizes "literacy-oriented" and hopes to break subject-oriented education through innovative and cross-field education. Beishi Wuchang Junior High School, which has four years of experience in cross-domain teaching, has developed a "Piano Making and Piano Teaching" course that integrates life science and technology, physics, chemistry, and music. Through experience, handicrafts, and cross-domain aesthetic learning that integrates various subjects, Wuchang Junior High School cultivates Students have the ability to actively explore, learn and appreciate, and the course is highly praised by students.

Chen Yingru, the academic director who is mainly responsible for curriculum planning, said that "Piano Making and Piano Transmission" is a "general education" course that all students in the school must take in addition to the art class. Students learn from design, piano making, and tuning. To be able to play an ensemble with a homemade balalaika, which involves not only "explicit" related courses such as life science and technology, art, music, and physics and chemistry (sound waves), but also the transfer of the design layout to the piano panel and the tuning of the strings. There is an "implicit" connection with the mathematical concepts of ruler and compass construction and the Pythagorean scale, which indeed embodies the spirit of cross-field learning in the new curriculum.

Chen Yingru said that in the past, students learned only one-sided knowledge in single-subject learning, while the education reform emphasizes stimulating learning motivation and cross-domain learning. In the early days, the Ministry of Education promoted "one musical instrument for life", but we saw that most students from elementary school, junior high school to high school learned recorders. In order to provide students with hands-on experience and integrate different subjects into an interdisciplinary course, several A like-minded teacher jointly planned this course using the shamisen as a medium.

Student Deng Jiaying bluntly said, "It's more fun to teach this way." For example, the teacher uses a tablet app to explain sound waves, which is more interesting and easier to understand than a simple physics and chemistry class. If other courses and subjects can be used in this way, I believe It will definitely improve the interest and effectiveness of learning.