Every egg pancake roll are full of empathy from kids to others.
On June, 2020, it was almost summer. Fu-Shing Classroom, a studio that organized by NCNU USR Project was busy and exciting. Several pans were kept hot and smoking, with eggs and pancake skins. A junior school girl was trying her best to make egg pancake rolls for classmates and teachers as her farewell present.
Because of frustration of learning, after-school class are always not lovely affairs. However, all teachers and staffs in Fu-Shing classroom believes that there are something much more important than subjects for children, such as ability to design and execute a project, empathy for others and a heart that always dare to explore and learn. For these vision, besides subjects in school, scouting education was introduced to Fu-Shing Classroom. All teachers are trying to inspire children's passion for learning by "learning by doing" method from scouting.
When egg pancake rolls were served on the table, the girl was starting to farewell to all deeply. For USR project, it might be a kind of "chemistry" that catalyzed by programs in suburban and make kids to be brave for their future.
In the deep mountain villages, there are teachers fighting for kids.
Farewell, Fu-Shing Classroom. Furthermore, there are empowerment programs held by USR Project just happening in the Li-Shing Elementary School that 60 kilometers far and 1500 meters high. Li-Shing Elementary School is located at Marepa indigenous community were with no public transportation. How to organize empowerment, design lessons and workshop is the key issues for College of Education(COE).
Because of passion of teachers in Li-Shing Elementary School, COE organizes at least 1-2 service every month. Co-working network was built by USR Project to operate issues such as multi-grade instruction, multiple evaluations, digital learning, lessons designing. The mission of project is to reduce the teachers' pressure from new curriculum guidelines.
"When I got a phone call from Li-Shing Elementary School, I had no idea where Li-Shing Elementary School is, but I knew I have to promise the asking of co-operation. As the only national university in Nantou County, it's our definite responsibility." Young Chou-sung, the director of USR project of COE, NCNU said. On the way toward Li-Shing Elementary School, there are not only beautiful scenes, but also challenges for deep mountain villages.
To knit a safety net for kids from university to the community.
In the first phase of USR Project, College of Education leaded students to join actions in the communities. On 2020, based on the knowledge of communities working and new Interdisciplinary Program of Education(IPE), COE started to knit the network with USR platform. For empowerment, IPE is one of the most important talent pool and most precious area for innovative teaching. Before this new semester, COE, IPE and USR team of National Dong Hwa University conducted "Safari of Education" as an obligatory course for new students of IPE. In the Safari of Education, students visited Buffalo Bookstore, Basement of Mountain and Forest, and Five Way House. Especially in Five-Way House, new students joined the real community working and understood the basic knowledge of education in suburban. When the framework of courses in IPE and USR Project connected deeper and deeper, IPE will become a kind of experiment school of USR.
When IPE and students team were founded, Suburban Education Platform started to co-work with programs to family empowerment and become a network node in the suburban area. For COE, network is not only for sharing resources and messages, but also a net to knits all participants to catch the kids and all kind of challenges.
For COE, it's hard to calculate how many children they can catch. But they will walk with children when kids growing up.