Junyi Centre for Teaching & Learning
“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.
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.
Flipped learning highlights the relevance of redefining the role of the teacher as well as the role of the student; for teachers to shift from being the knowledge deliverer to facilitator. Yen reminds educators of the important role they play in helping students find joy in their education, to have the ability to discover own talents, to be curious to learn – to be self-motivated learners, to value arts, humanities, and to develop good character, as well as the social and critical thinking skills to prepare themselves for challenges that lay ahead.
JCTL will serve as a facility for educators – teachers, school administrators, interns, parents to innovate – whether to create or receive, to share, for peer learning, and to be able to put theory into practice. It offers workshops to help educators achieve new conception of education, and centres on Waldorf education, Junyi Academy – a free Chinese online learning website, innovative teaching, arts & humanities, and character development. JCTL environment encourages educators to innovate while keeping a student-centred learning in mind; to help students understand how to make use of the information provided and how to analyze it.
With technology changing the way we live and learn, the way we teach is ever more critical. Information has been made so readily accessible to students today, traditional textbook learning no longer prepare them for challenges ahead. In Taiwan, nearly all secondary school students continue into college; student abilities are therefore measured by the success of their exams, resulting in rote learning, disabling talents. ACF hopes to empower educators, particularly from Taiwan’s rural and remote, to be the revolutionaries of the country’s education to help change the futures of its youths.
