Hwaseong City Hosts Model School Workshop for Creative and Wisdom Education

The Hwaseong Creative and Wisdom Education Support Center held a workshop on December 2nd for 96 department heads from 63 model schools participating in the 2014 Hwaseong Creative and Wisdom Education program to work on the 'Reconstruction of Creative and Wisdom Curriculum'.

As the city expands the number of creative and wisdom education model schools to 63 for next year, the workshop was designed to coincide with the 2014 school curriculum evaluation and planning period. In-service training was provided to teachers in charge so that the Hwaseong Creative and Wisdom Education City project programs could be reflected and reconstructed within each school's individual curriculum, and the workshop was planned to ensure that creative and wisdom education continues to be practiced in school settings.

The workshop utilized teaching materials titled 'Building Our School's Creative and Wisdom Curriculum Together,' developed by the Hwaseong Creative and Wisdom Education Support Center for elementary, middle, and high schools. A total of 17 teams across 2 elementary divisions and 1 middle school division conducted Action Learning sessions in which they set up hypothetical schools and reconstructed creative and wisdom curricula.

The city structured the creative and wisdom curriculum reconstruction procedures as 'establishing school philosophy, reconstructing school and grade-level curricula (incorporating the Hwaseong Creative and Wisdom Education City project), and reconstructing class (subject) curricula.' Through a process of comparing and reviewing curricula by each school, self-consulting for reconstruction that incorporates creative and wisdom education into the curriculum is being conducted simultaneously, with expectations that this will provide significant support to schools in implementing creative and wisdom education projects in practice.