Under the funding subsidy of the Teaching Practice Research Project of the Ministry of Education for its "USR in Practice: Service Learning in Child Care as a Teaching Research Project for Co-educational Education and Protection Talents," Prof. Zhi-Sheng Chen from STUST recently presented the teaching aids designed by college students to Tainan Jianjin Kindergarten. There was a rich variety of teaching aids given to children in rural areas. According to the feedback from the teachers of the kindergarten, these teaching aids were very popular among children.

【The teaching aids "Haikou Adventure Game" designed by students of the Department of Child Care at STUST were being tested in a trial activity on campus】

Prof. Zhi-Sheng Chen, Leading Researcher of "USR in Practice: Service Learning in Child Care as a Teaching Research Project for Co-educational Education and Protection Talents," once led the students of his class "Education and Protection Volunteer Service Training" to serve as volunteers in Tainan Jianjin Kindergarten, carrying out children’s breakthrough game activities. Not only were children happy to learn while playing, college students were but also very happy to be able to design breakthrough games, have fun with children, and improve education and protection. It can be said to have achieved the effect that children and college students had fun and learn together.

【Students from STUST first brought to test the teaching aid "I Am a Little Fishing Master," designed by students of the Department of Child Care.】

However, due to the pneumonia epidemic and campus control, the original USR service learning activities in the second semester of the 108th academic year were forced to be suspended and unable to proceed. In the final report of the "Creative Thinking" course, the students of the Department of Child Care at STUST who had been to Tainan Jianjin Kindergarten to do their service expressed regret that they could not go to the kindergarten again, but they hoped to have the opportunity to go to the kindergarten again.

【The children in Tainan Jianjin Kindergarten had a great time using the teaching aids “A Taste of Hometown Flavor,” designed by the Department of Child Care at STUST.】

In order to make good use of the creative design teaching aids of students, Prof. Zhi-Sheng Chen recently presented the kindergarten teaching aids designed by students in his "Creative Thinking" course to Tainan Jianjin Kindergarten. In order to make the best use of everything, teachers of Tainan Jianjin Kindergarten said that the teaching aids designed by students from the Department of Child Care were full of creativity. For example, the teaching aids "A Taste Hometown Flavor" used children’s habits of going to the night market, combining it with the local specialty "milkfish" to make it happen. The children can quickly learn about Jianjin's properties while leaning to coordinate their hand and foot movements through games. With the teaching aids "I’m a Little Fishing Master," children can sing fishing songs, sprinkle hand-made fishing nets suitable for children, and catch oysters, shrimps and milkfish With other teaching aids, they also came to learn about classification and number concepts. One teacher said that this teaching aid excited every child, making them desire to cast a net like a fisherman.

【The children in Tainan General Kindergarten had a great time using the teaching aids "Carrot Monopoly," designed by the Department of Child Care at STUST.】

According to Prof. Zhi-Sheng Chen, Leading Researcher of "USR in Practice: Service Learning in Child Care as a Teaching Research Project for Co-educational Education and Protection Talents," during the implementation of the plan, the team worked with Tainan Jianjin Kindergarten and focused on their local cultural theme teaching. It allowed college students to explore not only the local culture of Tainan in a deeper level but also the production of the teaching aids. However, there was still room for improvement in the teaching aids designed by students. Some students ask family members who had had experience in making fishing nets to assist in the production. This enhanced their family relationships and helped them understand their own culture. It can be said to be an additional harvest of the Ministry of Education's "USR in Practice: Service Learning in Child Care as a Teaching Research Project for Co-educational Education and Protection Talents."

【The children in Tainan General Kindergarten had a great time using the teaching aids "I am a Little Fishing Master," designed by the Department of Child Care at STUST.】