[Campus World] Catholic Peisheng Middle School's interdisciplinary reading experience promotes students' deep learning

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2021-01-25 14:41

Last update date: 2021-01-25 14:44

Catholic Peisheng Middle School has been adhering to the five core values ​​of Catholic education-"Truth, Righteousness, Charity, Life and Family". It is student-oriented and provides various types of appropriate learning activities to cater for the diversity of students' learning and physical fitness. The growth of the mind needs.

Facing the impact of the epidemic, the school teacher team continued to promote interdisciplinary reading activities in different ways, hoping to provide students with a richer learning experience and respond to the "new normal of education".

(Picture of Catholic Pui Sheng Middle School)

Life experience is an indispensable part of learning, and campus life is taking up a large part of student life.

Catholic Peisheng Middle School has always adhered to the five core values ​​of Catholic education-"Truth, Righteousness, Charity, Life and Family". It is student-oriented and provides various types of appropriate learning activities and designs rich courses.

Therefore, the school actively organizes different reading activities, such as writer’s lectures, special topics and large-scale book fairs, afternoon teacher-student reading, new book promotion and book drifting activities, etc., to create a strong campus reading atmosphere, and strive to cultivate students to read widely and enhance their knowledge. And with an open attitude, accept different opinions, viewpoints, values ​​and cultures to achieve the whole person development of lifelong learning.

Alumni, parents, book coupons, teachers and students, strong friendship

In November, the school invited booksellers to the school to hold a book fair. To encourage students to buy their favorite books at the book fair, enthusiastic alumni and parents sponsored book vouchers of different denominations and distributed them with the assistance of teachers to promote teacher-student interaction.

At the book fair, it is common for teachers and students to choose their favorite books together. It can be seen that this move not only encourages students who love to read, but also hopes to promote the overall "happy" reading atmosphere.

Students actively participated in the book fair and selected their favorite books.

(Provided by Catholic Peisheng Middle School)

Students actively participated in the book fair and selected their favorite books.

(Provided by Catholic Peisheng Middle School)

Famous writers appeared to guide in-depth tour thoughts

This year, the school invited Dr. Ye Deping, a well-known local historian and writer, to select books suitable for students to read, and jointly planned a series of author lectures.

In October and November, with the theme of "Light Up the Light in the Heart: Reading "The Kite Chaser"" with junior high school classmates, I read "The Kite Chaser" by the American Afghan writer Khaled Husseini. "People" explores the influence of parents on their children, and involves issues of making mistakes and salvation during the growth of adolescents. While sharing reading strategies and experiences, the speaker also cooperates with the "charity" spirit of the school’s Catholic core values ​​to guide students Consider the importance of family relationships and establish correct values ​​such as knowing and changing, love and forgiveness.

(Picture of Catholic Puisheng Middle School)

Teacher Tan Xiaoqi, the Coordinator of the Reading Promotion Team and the Deputy Director of the Chinese Department, said: "The purpose of holding book fairs and writers’ lectures is to let students have a "real view". Reading is not just a matter of knowledge on paper, but it requires students to participate and participate. Establish a constant habit. Book fairs and author lectures are the most direct way for students to increase their interest in reading and truly feel the author’s creative mentality. Therefore, these two activities are very popular among students.”

A love letter to Monro Lisa explores cross-disciplinary history topics

As the Hong Kong Museum of Art is holding an exhibition about the Renaissance, and the 500th anniversary of the death of Renaissance master Leonardo in 2019, different commemorative activities are being promoted all over the world.

The School History and Reading Promotion Section specially organized the "Renaissance Fifth Century: A Love Letter to Monro Lisa" in December. Through the display of the copy of "Monro Lisa", the Renaissance Knowledge Exhibition and related book exhibitions, to complement the "To Monro Lisa" "Love Letters" activity brings students a diversified learning experience.

Renaissance thematic exhibition board in the school lobby.

(Provided by Catholic Peisheng Middle School)

Hang up a copy of "Monro Lisa" for students to stop and watch.

(Provided by Catholic Peisheng Middle School)

Hang up a copy of "Monro Lisa" for students to stop and watch.

(Provided by Catholic Peisheng Middle School)

The highlight of the event is "A Love Letter to Monro Lisa". Students need to participate in the Renaissance exhibition and related book fairs in the library, then read the "Letter from Monro Lisa" in the letter paper, and finally write a "Letter Five Hundred Years Later" .

In order to enable students to experience it for themselves, the history teacher specially created a "mailbox" and the students personally contributed to the reply.

The stationery not only uses a vintage paper background, but also includes a QR Code of Chinese and English online reading materials related to the Renaissance to facilitate students to understand related topics across media.

(Provided by Catholic Peisheng Middle School)

The stationery not only uses a vintage paper background, but also includes a QR Code of Chinese and English online reading materials related to the Renaissance to facilitate students to understand related topics across media.

(Provided by Catholic Peisheng Middle School)

Teachers Hong Zhaolong and Du Zhanzhou, who participated in the planning and teaching history, said: "Planning activities needs to be thoughtful to match the contemporary context and learning habits of students. We have included Internet language in the activities, such as "No hurry, online "Etc." and "How to write a love letter with subject knowledge", etc. I hope to increase the students' sense of input." The students responded enthusiastically and received nearly half a hundred handwritten submissions from the whole school, including some surprising works.

The History Department also invited the Chinese Society to assist in the selection and also provided rich prizes to the winners.

Students make promotional videos for mixed learning to show their potential

In order to meet the new development direction of education in the 21st century, the school has specially designed various "school-based innovative courses" in recent years to fully equip students and prepare for new challenges in the future.

For example, the "21st Century Humanities Classroom" funded by the Quality Education Fund Project includes multiple audio-visual studios, small theater performance stages and various virtual (VR)/augmented reality (AR) multimedia sensory teaching aids, etc.

During the above-mentioned cross-curricular reading promotion activities, students also made good use of the green screens and audio-visual equipment of the newly established humanities classrooms in the school, transformed into small anchors, produced English version of Da Vinci and "Monro Lisa" introduction video, and then arranged by the teacher in the morning meeting Broadcasting becomes a part of campus life.

In addition, the school regularly releases short introduction videos of good books in Chinese or English in different academic weeks, linking reading and different subject knowledge.

Ms. Ma Li'an, deputy coordinator of the school reading promotion group and deputy head of the English subject, said: "The promotion of students' language learning cannot be driven by individual subjects. Students participate in the production of videos and broadcast in morning meetings. On the one hand, participation in activities can be enhanced. Students’ reading and speaking skills; at the same time, students studying at home due to the epidemic can learn new subject vocabulary and knowledge through watching and listening, and appreciate the learning achievements of their classmates.”

Create a deep learning environment towards 21st century learning

American educator Dewey once said: "Education is life." His empirical philosophy emphasizes "to learn from experience."

Catholic Puisheng Secondary School is also committed to providing students with a good learning environment, allowing students to learn in an empirical learning context, and catering for the diversity of learning and teaching.

From inviting booksellers to the school to hold book fairs, providing school book coupons, to planning thematic exhibitions and interactive games and activities, it can be seen that the school promotes not only "reading on books", but "from atmosphere to individual", focusing on the campus environment How to enrich the life experience of students and make them a new generation of young people who love to learn (Love to Learn) and learn to love (Learn to Love).

(Content provided by Catholic Peisheng Middle School)

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