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The "113th School Year the Cross-disciplinary Aesthetic Outstanding School Award Ceremony" was held on September 10 at the National Chengchi University Public Enterprise Center. A total of 33 schools from 21 counties and cities in Taiwan were selected to win the "Cross-Domain Aesthetics Pioneer Award" and "Cross-Domain Aesthetics Excellence Award" ” and “Cross-Domain Aesthetic Sail Award” are affirmed. During the ceremony, 132 benchmark and seed cooperation school certificates were awarded, and on-site teachers were also arranged to share their practical experience in aesthetic education.

At this year’s award ceremony, many experts and scholars participated in the grand event, including Deputy Director-General Wang Shujuan of the Department of Teacher Training and Art Education of the Ministry of Education, overall program host Professor Zhao Huiling from the Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University, and program co-hosts from the Department of Education Professor Huang Chunmin, project co-hosts Professor Lin Xiaoyu from the Department of Music, Taipei City University, Professor Gao Zhenfeng from the Department of Visual Arts, Professor Zhuang Minren from the Department of Music, National Taichung University of Education, and Associate Professor Chen Yunwen, performing arts advisory committee member of the High School Art Life Subject Center, etc. people.

Deputy Director Wang Shujuan said in her speech that aesthetic education is different from the "knowledge, affection, skills, attitude" stage of teaching in the past. Instead, it starts with "experience, feeling, and touching" in life, because "feeling" can lead to success. "Beauty". It is expected that on-site teachers can use words and examples to set an example for students, which will be more powerful than knowledge discussion.

The Ministry of Education's "Cross-field Aesthetic Education Excellence Pilot Project" is now entering its 11th year. The plan connects primary and secondary schools, teachers' training and even graduate schools across Taiwan. Aesthetic education will be introduced into reading and writing classes and majors in various fields, not only to inspire Students' learning motivation, deepening learning experience, and the goal of making beauty an indispensable part of students' lives. Project host Professor Zhao Huiling said: "Once beauty becomes everyone's ideology, art education becomes a must-have in life."

In the past 10 years, aesthetic education has been promoted with national resources, from only 10 participating schools to now connecting all Taiwan, outlying islands, and even connecting with international partners. Professor Zhao Huiling hopes that aesthetic education will leave a "deeper" discussion in the future, which can respond to the current international education trends, such as SDGS (United Nations Sustainable Development Goals) and SEL (Social Emotional Learning), and think about how aesthetic education can participate in it and cultivate people with the ability to Talents with sustainable thinking and emotional management.

Teacher Zhan Yu-pu from the Experimental Elementary School Affiliated to the National Taipei University of Education spoke on the topic of "Curriculum Co-Preparation and Community Promotion". She shared that "good students come from good teachers." When building a teacher community, the first step is to establish a "supportive system" for teachers. Through creating an atmosphere, teachers can be motivated to become professionally autonomous. Then, they need to "get out of the circle." There is no need to specifically limit the purpose of lesson preparation to create cross-field teachers. dialogue, and then use beauty to focus on the theme, stimulating the diverse possibilities of the classroom.

Wang Zixiang, director of Penghu County Hunan National Middle School, has been involved in the beauty project for more than 10 years. She combined Penghu’s local culture and led students to design tiles and local colors. The students’ works not only appeared on campus, but also went into the community. “When students see their own I look forward to it when the works are selected, and they are very happy to ask me in class, what should the teacher do in this class? It is also important to make students feel a sense of accomplishment."

Teacher Fang Ziwen from Kaohsiung Municipal Xiaogang Senior High School shared how the language field can be integrated into aesthetic education to teach "critical thinking and expression". She flipped the ppt report mode and used "transformed materials" in class to allow students to use showcases to display their Stories inspire students to be curious about others and promote thinking about self-identity. She believes that teachers need to be aware of how they think and turn troublesome events that occur in the class into interesting events without giving up the possibility of making the classroom better.