Cultivating Creative and Intellectual Education That Develops Thinking Skills, We Will Create It

On the 7th, Hwaseong City, together with the Hwaseong-Osan Office of Education under Gyeonggi Province, hosted the "2014 Creative and Intellectual Education Model School Principals' Workshop" at Rabidol Syntex, under the auspices of the Hwaseong Creative and Intellectual Education Support Center.

The workshop brought together 63 school principals from Hwaseong's Creative and Intellectual Education Model Schools as well as education officials to share the direction of the Hwaseong Creative and Intellectual Education City project's basic plan and explore concrete implementation strategies for individual schools.

Hwaseong City Mayor Chae In-seok said, "Through the Creative and Intellectual Education City project, schools in Hwaseong are achieving educational innovation results that attract national attention," and "The selection of three schools in our jurisdiction as among the nation's top 100 schools with excellent curricula is a prime example of such achievements."

Kim Sun-young, principal of Seokcheon Elementary School, a Creative and Intellectual Education Model School, presented a case study, stating, "By providing cultural and arts experience opportunities utilizing community resources, we have achieved not only the development of emotional and creative abilities but also fostered school spirit and experienced a donation culture through various experiential learning activities in collaboration with the community, including volunteer participation in school mural painting projects utilizing donations."

The City's Lifelong Education Division stated that this year marks the third year of the Hwaseong Creative and Intellectual Education City project, which will move beyond the stabilization period into a period of creative expansion. It expressed expectations that through this workshop, the sharing of the basic plan for the Hwaseong Creative and Intellectual Education City project and diverse implementation cases will further deepen the efforts to realize creative and intellectual education in model schools.