Improvement of school management for Morals and creativity education in Science

Operation contents

• Improvement of class environment for Morals and Creativity education Class environment construction for facilitating problem-solving abilities and integrated thinking skills in science, technology, humanities, and mathematics
• Local community education and donation for education through embedding MOU
• School management with educational commune
  • Community for students’ parents
  • Creative experiential activities with students’ parents
• Creative experiential activities of special education through Block-time curriculum
• Supporting teacher training to enhance the skills of Morals and Creativity education
• Improvement of evaluation methods for Morals and Creativity education
  • Creativity : mathematical essay to evaluate students‘ critical thinking skills based on convergence subject
  • Characteristic : Self-evaluation and colleague rating
  • Over 30% constructed response evaluation to measure logical thinking
  • 40% of performance evaluation to cover various abilities
  • Regular meeting for each subject group to develop innovative evaluation tools
• Morals and Creativity Education Center
  • The center aims to generalize the Morals and Creativity education programme by presenting the educational materials and methods

Benchmarking points

• Invigorating donation of education through local community education infrastructure and embedding MOU
• Introduction to various edcuational activities with community for students’ parents
  

STEAM Activity through Team-teaching method

Operation contents

• Development and application of teaching-learning model to cultivate students’ integrated thinking abilities
  • Teaching a class based on PBL method : ‘Fusion of approaches to solve a problem’
  • Reading education system based on a team teaching model
  • Developing teaching material for discussion learning focused on integrated subjects
• Developing a curriculum to support talented students in integral subjects
  • Research subject and teaching material based on a team-teaching model
  • A teaching-learning plan and project-based educational programme
• Application of developed teaching-learning plan and research subjects

Benchmarking points

• Reading education system based on a team teaching model
• Generalization of our teaching-learning model to cultivate students’ integrated thinking skills and integrated-subjects educational model
• Guidance in how to improve of an evaluating system to intensify humanitarian education
  

Team research project

Contents of operation

• Target students : First graders
• Support from institutions for educational donation
• Collaborative research (one guidance teacher and a group of two or three students)
• Seven domains of inquiry(Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Bioscience, Earth Science, Information Technology, Convergence Science)
• Operation process
  • 1st Term : - Based on ‘PBL research note’, guidance on how to write a research note Publications of a guide book for ‘Research project‘ How to use facilities for ‘Rearch projects’ Lecture about the method of esearch Writing a research plan in groups
  • 2nd Term : Proceeding with an intensive research project Writing a research report Evaluating reports through a public presentation Holding the Student Science Study Contest Publishing students’ collaborative research reports

Benchmarking points

• Adopting a student-centered research project to improve the teaching method
• Educational activity aimed at cultivating the creative and talented in multiple subjects by developing skills to solve problems
  

Field research (Creative experiential activity)

Operation contents

• Target students : First graders
• Enhancing students’ creative field inquiry ability and cultivating students’environmental science literacy
• Period of time : May, 2014
• Fields of operation : Math institute, Geology & fossil, Silk dyeing, (Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biotechnology, Earth-science, Computer-programming, Fusion-science area)
• Operation process
  • Making preliminary survey and selecting human resources
  • Production and distribution of ‘Filed research Guide book’before exploration
  • Proceeding with field study
  • Donating students talents in scientific knowledge to local communities
  • Each group hands in a field research report
  • Publication of students’ ‘Field research reports’

Benchmarking points

• Operation process of field research programme
• Field research and donation of students‘ talents in scientific knowledge to local communities