News source: Chen Guanlin/Jinhu Report

News link:＜Kinmen Daily＞

A multi-year elementary school has been awarded the "Cross-Domain Aesthetics Pilot Award", the country's highest award for outstanding schools in aesthetic education. Principal Zhang Zhimeng and the school's teachers went to the National Taiwan Normal University to attend the 110th academic year commendation ceremony for outstanding schools under the Ministry of Education's cross-disciplinary aesthetic education excellence pilot program.

For many years, the elementary school team has integrated aesthetic education courses into ocean, environment, human rights, and gender issues education, effectively integrated the subject learning of Chinese, mathematics, nature and social fields, and enriched students' aesthetic literacy, with "Cross-disciplinary aesthetic education-model" School" was invited to share the cross-disciplinary aesthetic curriculum plan developed and implemented in the 110th academic year at the award ceremony.

Yu Wanqi, a long-time elementary school teacher who took the stage to share the curriculum, explained that the 110 school year takes "vivid aesthetics" as the main axis of cross-field aesthetic teaching, represented by the four core concepts of "cultivating aesthetic literacy, activating field subjects, implementing learning experiences, and connecting campus life" Cross-field aesthetic teaching. The curriculum sprouts from students' lives, connects students' campus life, and allows students to actually carry out learning actions based on learning tasks and cultivate independent action. It is also expected that beauty can happen in every detail of students' life experience during learning. Deeply feel that "beauty and I" are everywhere, and then experience the connection between aesthetic learning and fields and issues. Learning to perceive beauty can bring about changed confidence and achievements.

Yu Wanqi said that in the first semester of the 2010 academic year, elementary schools for many years developed the "Living and Traveling·Moving Beauty" course based on the aesthetic experience of connecting students' "living and traveling" to "living" environmental issues in the villages where students live, and led Students ride school-based unicycles in the day community by "walking" to carry out environmentally friendly beach cleaning activities and environmental aesthetic art creations, bringing into the increasingly serious problem of floating garbage on Kinmen Beach to discover the beauty and sorrow of the community and express their awareness of marine conservation. , and extends to the practice in the family, and personally protects the environment of the hometown. The course combines the creative thinking of "conversion│return to zero│rebirth" in aesthetic education, and carries out the learning process of "waste creation│aesthetic activation│value regeneration", and uses "market stalls" to actually connect with the people and people intertwined in students' lives. Things, things, we look forward to the learning process of creating cross-domain courses with a sense of beauty, so that students can learn to "reverse the thinking model of beauty" and understand the power of innovation and change from the "unwanted → useful" design and creation process, which can have unlimited potential. Extension and possibility. At the same time, students are guided to materialize themselves into abandoned buoys, so as to re-examine their own value, self-correct and adjust, and re-overturn the shortcomings in front of them, so as to re-live the concepts, see their own advantages, and find a better self.

Yu Wanqi said that in the second semester of the 2010 academic year, the cross-field beauty course "Looking for Beauty and Treasure Hunting" was developed. It started from the design concept of "Beautiful People, Human Beauty" and combined gender equality and human rights education, allowing students to learn about Malala. Find out about the beauty of characters and look for the "beauty of characters" on campus. Whose beauty on campus brings the touch and influence of beauty in our lives? The course design uses the interview role task of a young reporter to carry out a series of cross-field exploration and experiential learning of "selecting the target → interview → reflection → writing a speech → props and poster design → rehearsal → performing on stage → voting → essay feedback → thanksgiving ceremony". The beauty of writing, the beauty of creating portraits, the beauty of speaking, and the beauty of interaction have become concrete actions and opinions that interpret and express the "beauty of characters" on campus, and finally guide students to create a beautiful ritual sense of "thank you". Introducing "gratitude can bring incredible power", use a thank-you card giving ceremony to leave a beautiful record of your mood and harvest.

Teacher Yu Wanqi and the school team teachers are grateful to the professors of the Cross-disciplinary Aesthetic Education Excellence Pilot Program for their affirmation and giving us a big gift of "the first choice when entering university - the Normal University Dream Auditorium", which can be the best in Taiwan. In front of the aesthetic education partners, he took the stage to share the teaching experience of "integrating issues into aesthetics" in a rural primary school in Kinmen. He was moved by "searching for beauty" with five senses and six senses. It made us meet and be beautiful because of the course, and it also gave us more motivation to lead. We continue to promote aesthetic courses that integrate cross-fields and disciplines with our children.

Zhang Zhimeng, principal of the elementary school for many years, said that the school has been committed to implementing cross-domain aesthetic courses for many years, with art as the core, and supports cross-domain innovative learning in the 108 curriculum. This time the school has gone through three stages of rigorous preliminary review, review and final review by the planning team. Standing out from hundreds of cooperating aesthetic courses schools in Taiwan and winning the "Cross-Domain Aesthetics Pilot Award", it is actually the school team teachers who draw on each other's expertise and begin to move the teaching field, explore innovative courses, and make changes beyond the classroom, gradually forming a "joint learning" "Working together to create a better future" is the best motivation and encouragement for professional growth.