Close your eyes, sit cross-legged, straighten your waist, feel the flow of breath and air. The exercise allowed the children to calm their heart. After sit quietly for five minutes, let’s start the day of wonderful reading lessons. Today’s courses would also divided the children into four groups and two classes. In the first class, teacher Liu led the younger children to read the story book “Doctor Dog”. The content of the book reminded the children that health was important and promoted the concept of disease prevention. Then Teacher Liu prepared hand-painted pictures of organs to show the

DENER launched a reading magic camp in Yujing, Tainan on July 31. This was the second time we had returned to Yujing Elementary School. Even though there have been some changes, our intention to put actual actions into rural education had not changed.This year, we also co-organized these activities with “Tathagata Family Care Association.” The children in Yujing mostly grew up in the agricultural family, and we could feel their simplicity and contentment in getting along with the children. Among them, there were also a few children in special circumstances who need more careful attention. During the day,

On July 18, the seed teachers of DENER went to Huzhu Elementary School in Renai Township, Nantou County to teach. Most of the children from Huzhu Elementary School are from the Saidiq aboriginal group; the liveliness and innocence of this group of children is impressive. From Huzhu Elementary School, you can see the magnificent scenery at a glance. There is a feeling of cheerfulness. Nature has created a clean learning environment. The day started with teacher Yi Ting’s game. A series of interesting games allowed the children to get closer to the seed teachers while having fun warming

May 31st was the fourth session of the seed teacher training. Early morning, students gathered at DENER. At first, the director encouraged all the seed teachers, “After training of these courses, everyone now has a good understanding of teaching introductions, the design and planning of the courses and the methods in guiding story book reading. The process of learning is slow and gradual, but it is certainly something that everyone can take away with once you learned it. “ Then DENER’s first seed teacher Ming led today’s class and shared her experience. Teacher Ming is a Junior student

As the COVID-19 slowed down, on May 30, the seed teacher’s training was conducted at DENER. The training was conducted by teacher Yongyi Wu. Teacher Wu has won the first prize of the National Group of National Super Teacher Award in Taiwan as well as Special Excellent Teacher Award of Nantou County.  She is an outstanding teacher at the Taiwan Reading Culture Foundation and a very experienced teacher.   In the beginning of the class, Teacher Wu told us that reading was not just about reading story books, but also training a lifelong learner. Every child had his

May 17th was the second session of the seed teacher class. We invited teacher Cailiang Xu to have a deeper discussion with everyone. The main content of teacher Xu’s teaching was image science. The lengthy texts were organized into schematic diagrams to help clarify the meaning of the text and prepare for teaching more systematically. In addition to the graphics in the textbook, teacher Xu also encourage students to create their own graphics so that their creativity could be flexibly used in teaching. Then teacher Xu introduced the three skills of KWL reading. Before teaching, teacher Xu guided