With education revolution as its core mission, The Alliance Cultural Foundation (ACF) and Junyi Experimental High School Chairman and visionary, Stanley C. Yen, actively raises awareness to the Taiwan public of the importance to understand global education trend and to take charge in changing the way we teach and learn. Through books, speeches, media, Yen urges for Taiwan to re-evaluate its strengths and weaknesses, to then create new set of policies, redesign and reeducate its teaching curriculum. In a globalized world, understanding and embracing the change in global education is critical. September 2015, ACF introduced Junyi Centre for Teaching & Learning (JCTL) – one of its many initiatives to accomplish its vision. ACF hopes that JCTL will be a platform for educators, particularly from remote communities, to come together to exchange ideas to become better educators, and for students from its communities to have a chance for a better future.
“Every education system in the world is being reformed at the moment…what we need…is not evolution, but a revolution…reform is…simply improving a broken model.” – Sir Ken Robinson, Educationist
With education revolution as its core mission, The Alliance Cultural Foundation (ACF) and Junyi Experimental High School Chairman and visionary, Stanley C. Yen, actively raises awareness to the Taiwan public of the importance to understand global education trend and to take charge in changing the way we teach and learn. Through books, speeches, media, Yen urges for Taiwan to re-evaluate its strengths and weaknesses, to then create new set of policies, redesign and reeducate its teaching curriculum. In a globalized world, understanding and embracing the change in global education is critical. September 2015, ACF introduced Junyi Centre for Teaching & Learning (JCTL) – one of its many initiatives to accomplish its vision. ACF hopes that JCTL will be a platform for educators, particularly from remote communities, to come together to exchange ideas to become better educators, and for students from its communities to have a chance for a better future.
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A New Vista for Children, a campaign first launched in November 2011 by The Alliance Cultural Foundation (ACF) is in its fourth year running. With smartphone and tablet cameras substituting the digital camera, it encourages people from across the country to donate their unused cameras to children from rural and remote communities of Hualien and Taitung (Huatung) to learn to capture moments of their childhood, and to foster the ability to observe their surrounding through the lens of a camera. The campaign brings together photography professionals from different regions of Taiwan to volunteer in Huatung schools to conduct photography as an extracurricular lesson.
Sleep a Little, Perhaps Inspiration will Follow...
2015 Huatung Youth Communications Design Camp, organized by The Alliance Cultural Foundation (ACF) and Taiwan’s much praised Shih Chien University is in its fifth year running. As design programs offered in Huatung (Hualien and Taitung) high schools and universities are little to none, the region has a considerable deficiency of designers. Recognized by BusinessWeek as one of 60 top D-schools in the world in 2006 as well as one of the best 30 design programs in the world for its Master in Industrial Design program in 2009, Shih Chien University uses its strengths and opens an opportunity for Huatung youths to develop in their design interests and inspire them to continue in their dream. In total, 70 youths from Huatung’s technical-vocational high schools were selected to participate in the camp, 30 of which received full sponsorship from ACF. The first 9th Grade graduation after The Alliance’s involvement… The 9th Grade class of 2015 is the first group of middle school graduates since Master Hsing Yun of Fo Guang Shan Monastery entrusted The Alliance Cultural Foundation (ACF) Chairman, Stanley C. Yen, with Junyi School for Innovative Learning in December 2011. With their visions aligned, Yen takes a new approach to education by introducing experiential learning, bringing in global resources, and providing equal learning opportunities to underprivileged and indigenous youths from under-resourced rural communities, bringing new value to Taiwan’s education. The graduates witnessed the school’s most critical, yet exciting period of transition.
Tao-Yuan Primary School’s Humanistic Approach to TeachingA story of one teacher’s inspiring efforts to make change, one class at a time… "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." - William Butler Yeats
Traditional education in Taiwan has the teacher lecturing, and students listening. It emphasizes on examination results encouraging students to learn through memorization rather than understanding, losing the true value and meaning of education. Yi-Wen Yang, 6th Grade teacher at Taitung County Yanping Township Tao-Yuan Primary School, challenges herself to try a different approach to educate her students. Every child is a unique learner; Yi-Wen introduces humanistic education to her class, allowing each student to develop at their own pace, providing an equal opportunity for growth. Lifting Spirit with the Integration of Films into Elementary EducationTranslated by Wen-Ling Wang
Stimulate Students’ Lifelong Passion for Learning by Connecting Life and ArtTranslated and edited by Lydia Lu and Constance Chiang
Flipped Classroom Workshop Before changing students, change must first begin with its teachers… In March 2015, as a collaborated effort to revolutionize Taiwan’s traditional education system, The Alliance Cultural Foundation (ACF) and Junyi Academy together organized the second Flipped Classroom Workshop at Junyi School for Innovative Learning in Taitung. The workshop, aimed to inspire more teachers the notion of flipped classroom, hosted 123 teachers from 40 primary and secondary schools in the Hualien-Taitung (Huatung) region of Taiwan.
Talent Development Program Overseas An experiential learning for the indigenous youths of Taiwan – from language, skills, to internationalism… From the beginning of its involvement in the East Coast of Taiwan, The Alliance Cultural Foundation (ACF) has dreamed to not only create positive sustainable growth in the region, but to introduce Taiwan’s rich indigenous culture internationally; education, and educating the youth is key. ACF’s overseas talent development program, in collaboration with Hawaii Tourism Authority and WISH Communication, offers a full scholarship to selected candidates of the indigenous origin to study at Brigham Young University (BYU) whilst interning at the Polynesian Cultural Center (PCC). The study program aims to develop a skill for the student to eventually bring back to their villages to re-teach other indigenous youths, and the internship program aims to offer experiential learning in sharing tribal arts and culture. Through its overseas talent development program, ACF dreams to expand the youth’s horizons, and to develop them into internationalized individuals.
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