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Recap of < “Do Schools Kill Creativity? -Vision & Goals of 12-year Curriculum” by BK on June 1, 2019”

Date: June 1, 2019. Saturday

Host: BK

Topic: “Do Schools Kill Creativity? -Vision & Goals of 12-year Curriculum”

Participants: BK, Ellen Huang, Winnie, David, Annie, Mike Young

Meeting photos: https://photos.app.goo.gl/exDxRAGFgh7k86zVA

Meeting started:

Examples: Chinese VS. Jewish

A kid asked his parent: What can I do when I grow up?

Jewish parents: Observe what kinds of need in the world now and see what you can offer to satisfy the needs.

Chinese parents: Observe what the successful people (or me) have done and follow suits.

1. You have told your child not to steal, but one day in the 7-eleven, you found your child steal something. What will you do>

Jewish parents: Accompany their child to the counter and confess what he has done and see what the counter clerks would deal with it, the consequence which he need to face!

Chinese parents: Accompany their child to apologize what he has done and beat him hard immediately on the spot and back home.

2. Group Decision Making

When one proposal gets the unanimous agreement

Chinese boss: We are of one mind and let’s go for it! (Resist any disagreement)

Jewish boss: What is the catch here? We need to find it out before we go for next step! (Welcome different opinion and questions)

3. A young entrepreneur who failed 19 times but now is searching for the 20^th investment

Chinese Investor: His records prove he is a loser, worthless to invest at all...

Jewish investor: He has the courage to try the 20^th times! Let’s hear what he learned from the failure experiences.

What conclusions you can get from the above 4 examples?

1. Video: I sue school kill creativity

How can you teach a fish to climb up a tree and run for 100 miles?

How can we teach children without regard of their temperament, nature, nurture, and gifts? Everyone is UNIQUE!

2. Handout: Chinese Imperial Examination

It became widely utilized as the major path to office since Han Dynasty and remained so until its abolition in 1905. . On one hand, it stabilizes the social order but shaped its citizen inclining to obey not to fight! On

3. Chinese (Confucian examination syllabus) VS. European (Humanist education)

=Stifle creativity VS. Challenge authority

However, Chinese offers fair play on the ladder of success and centered on the fundamental and general training, some of which even some European governments adopt to distinguish students between Academic or technical inclinations.

Question: How to adapt it into practice properly?

4. Video: What should school be?

Schools teach us language, math, physics and so on for us to prepare for the better future but not survive for present survival skills such as cooking, DIY and so on.

5. 12-year Curriculum for Basic Education in Taiwan in 2019—aims to strive for the development of potential in the individuals

It is learner-centered. Goal-oriented, mission-oriented, and value-oriented. It is regulated into the law, article 3 of Taiwan educational fundamental Act. It is going to practice this coming semester in September, 2019.

6. Competitive vs. Cooperative Learning Formats

Q1: Is Taiwan school practicing the cooperative learning formats in classrooms? YES

Q2: Are teachers competent to group students in cooperative teaching methods? YES

Q3. When is the best timing for cooperative teaching? Learning teaching via monitoring and teaching!

Upgrading Education is A MUST: Better Human Resource & Prosperous Taiwan

=Needs the supports from citizens with citizenship!

7. The Pygmalion Effect (contrast: Golem Effect) impact your performance

The good leadership in cooperative teams will manage in a positive “can-do” approach instead of “despising” one because it will arouse “used-to-be-low-achievers” to reach for better performance!

Globalization makes 20% (Class A) wealthier and wealthier while 80% (class B) poorer and poorer, and then who become marginalized soon. The disparity between classes speed up the mutual conflicts, which Class A try to avoid.  Subsequently, Class A invented “Tittytainment”, featured in a low cost, poor taste and sensory satisfaction to hocus 80% in fear of their lurking dangers!

9. **One parental tip offered by BK**

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.  By Haim Ginott , Isreal teacher, 1922~1973!

Attendee’s feedback

(1)🌇Who stifled my creativity? You, him or her?

Nay, it could be the system, your surroundings, or those stereotypical reactions that take you down.  Or perhaps school structure would have sabotaged your potential.   The sharing of ✅BK’s goes beyond my imagination.  Not only has it sparked our passion pitching in the focal discussion but developed our further thoughts about educational system.  There is no absolute sense of right or wrong.  However the formula remains existed that right attitude will help the young moving towards the healthy direction and all programs could be customized to seek potentiality who could be cultivated to be super athletes, entrepreneurs, scientists, or great leaders .

It may take to be channeled to possess proper attitude or behavior.  Each one has various potentials.  It could’ve turned ones into an expert or into becoming social mediocre people.

BK’s feedback

I did spend many days on this issue, and I am so excited we have

A time to share individual experiences with each other here in Bliss. I 100% glad received your encouragement and feedback. I always believe Bliss is a good place to practice collaborate learning, and with this idea we are the group to bless each other and benefits our own family even our community. Hopefully, this topic give us to think something around us and bless that one day we’ll see the next generation in Taiwan reach out their hands out to the world.

(2)✅What a job well done! You BK have a Style. It is Thought-provoking and good to be hilarious.  Coupled with your funny toss-up questions and fine-tuned video clips, it is a successful weekend sharing.  All the A’s goes to you, and F is not in my dictionary......🎉

Thanks for stimulating our creativity on group photo taken today and yet also attempting to our deeper thoughts and review our own educational experience, expectation and also to pitch how an ideal education shall look like in Taiwan.

My little one is going to elementary school this year, therefore , today's meeting truly inspire me to think more what parents role could be and getting involved to the new educational system in Taiwan

Thank you BK, you bring up an important issue and topic for us to think and discuss, most importantly, what we can ACT for this new educational system in Taiwan as the parents, as a citizen 😉

BK’s feedback

Remember years ago, you shared a topic about citizenship in Swiss, which gave me a deep impression. What I believe is education upgrade in Taiwan is not only the duty of the authority but also the citizens’ too. Child centered education =good Human Resources =prosper Future of our country.

Reflection

Bk’s presented his passion, dedication, and concern for better society. He streamlined the ideas in videos, handouts, guided questions, education system reviews thoroughly from ancient China to modern Taiwan, from west to east, from theoretical expedition to life-related application. Last but not the least, his pop-up humor, friendly Questions, and perfect time-control lead to successful-ever meeting in Bliss. Bravo, look forward to your next meeting~

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