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Exchanging experience---the experience of   Chungyi  Elementary School

Preparation

Visit Mothers of Chungyi elementary school on December 1

Pre-Meeting:

Date: 11.30 12: 30pm

Location: Lujiang Building Fourth Floor Conference Room

Topic: The questions for the visit to the story-telling mothers’ organization in   Chungyi  Elementary School

questions:

1. When do you establish the story-teller’s organization? Could you explain in detail?

2. How is the story-teller’s organization in   Chungyi  Elementary School  working?

3. How to manage the operation of the organization?

4. Have you ever had any frustration? What is your most unforgettable experience?

5. Is there any promotion activities in   Chungyi  Elementary School?

6. We want to establish our own story-tellers’ organization. What’s you suggestion for us?  

7. We like reading. What are the benefits of reading?

8. Could you talk about your ideas of being a story-telling mother?

Activity

Date: 12.1 11: 30am

Location: Chungyi Elementary School  Fourth Floor Conference Room

Interviewees: Yan-cui’s mother , Ching-chou’s mother , Mrs. Hsiao

participants: all members of the   Reading  team

Recorder: Hsiao-chi Wang
When we arrived at the meeting room of   Chungyi  Elementary School, the story-telling mothers were playing games. We interviewed Ching-chou’s mother and Mrs. Hsiao about the establishment of the story-telling organization in   Chungyi  Elementary School. About five years ago, the book club started by A-fu’s Bookstore gradually cooperated with Chungyi  Elementary School to form the reading organization of   Chungyi  Elementary School, telling stories to the students of Grade One and Grade Two. Being a story-telling mother was not so difficult, with love and kindness; every mother could do the job. It was very happy to share interesting stories with the children.

Recorder: Hsiang-jun Lin
Today we visited the story-telling mothers in  Chungyi  Elementary School. We saw Yan-cui’s mother, Ching-chou’s mother, and Mrs. Hsiao were playing games when we got there. We interviewed Ching-chou’s mother and Mrs. Hsiao about the foundation of the story-telling organization in   Chungyi  Elementary School. The book club of A-fu’s bookstore was combined with   Chungyi  Elementary School  five years ago to form an organization telling stories to the students from Grade One and Grade Two.

Operation: tell story to students of Grade One and Grade Two every Friday afternoon, and perform plays at the end of each semester (at the school’s cost).
maintaining: financial support and gathering to share experience

Frustration: often feel troubled to prepare materials, sometimes want to be lazy, the students are not in order

Latest activity: interact with painters, play the Stone soup
opinion: Communicating with the school is very important for financial support. The direction and instruction from experienced teachers are necessary. The activities should be open for outsiders to participate. Though sometimes they would feel tired, but the expectation of children always cheers them up.

Reporter: Yi-long Chen
Our question: how is the story-telling organization going in   Chungyi  Elementary School?
The story telling mothers were playing games when we arrived at the meeting room of  Chungyi  Elementary School
interview Mrs. Hsiao:
the Book Club founded by A-fu’s bookstore started the story-telling mothers’ group in Chungyi  Elementary School  and it developed very well, each class have its own story-telling mothers.
Operation: tell story to students of Grade One and Grade Two every Friday afternoon, and perform plays at the end of each semester (at the school’s cost).

 Maintaining: financial support and gathering to share experience
Frustration: often feel troubled to prepare materials, sometimes want to be lazy, the students are not in order
Latest activity: interact with painters, play the Stone soup
Opinion: Communicating with the school is very important for financial support. The direction and instruction from experienced teachers are necessary. The activities should be open for outsiders to participate.
The benefits of reading: help you to improve reading skills and get knowledge from books.

What we have learnt
Reporter: Yi-long Chen:
These mothers are very kind and warm-hearted, willing to sacrifice their spare time telling stories to us. We should be grateful to them. There are many warm-hearted people around us. So we should be grateful to them too. We should try our best to promote reading.

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Exchanging experience---Interview Teacher Shu-ying Tsai

Preparation

Pre-meeting:
Date: 11.30 12: 30pm
Location: Lujiang Building Fourth Floor Conference Room
Topic: the questions for Teacher Shu-ying Tsai

The questions we wanted to ask Teacher Shu-ying Tsai are:
(1) How do you train the story-telling mothers?
(2) Why you do that?
(3) How do you feel about the job?
(4) Is it difficult to train the story-telling mothers?
(5) Will the story-telling mothers feel tired?
(6) Have you ever thought of giving it up?
(7) What did you do before taking up the job?
(8) Is your previous job difficult?
(9) How do you feel about your previous job?
(10) Why do you want to train the story-telling mothers?
(11) What’s your intention to train the story-telling mothers?
(12) What do you do in A-fu’s Bookstore?
(13) What did you do before training the story-telling mothers?
(14) Do you find working in A-fu’s Bookstore difficult?
(15) Have you ever taken up any work even harder?
(16) What impresses you in your job?

Activity

Interviewer:  514 Jia-ching Wu, 514 Cheng-fen Chen
We visited Teacher Shu-ying Tsai at Saturday afternoon. She told us she was already 44 years old. I asked her how long did she take up the job. She answered 11 years. She told us she liked telling stories to children, so she trained the story-telling mothers to do so. She talked about those unforgettable experiences. Once a baseball player wanted to give up training to listen to her story. In a winter, it was so cold that she wanted to give up, but the expectation of children finally cheered her up. I was very moved by her behavior.

Reporter: Wan-jun Huang
We visited Teacher Shu-ying Tsai at Saturday afternoon. She told us she was already 44 years old. I asked her how long did she take up the job. She answered 11 years. She told us she liked telling stories to children, so she trained the story-telling mothers to do so. She talked about those unforgettable experiences. Once a baseball player wanted to give up training to listen to her story. In a winter, it was so cold that she wanted to give up, but the expectation of children finally cheered her up. I was very moved by her behavior.
My idea: the two experiences moved me. I thought she was a kind and loving woman.

Reporter: Yi-long Chen
Interview Teacher Shu-ying Tsai:
wish: wish all children would be happy
Qualification of being a story-telling mother: love children, love telling stories
unforgettable experience: sometimes the children were too noisy.
Dialogue by musical instruments: a child wanted to quit his interest group to attend the book club. Eight children attended a book club at a very cold winter day.
Suggestions: make yourself love reading, it would help you to make friends
suggestion on establishing the story-telling mothers’ organization in Luchou: with determination and better organization, open to participation, support from the school and the community.

Interviewer: 514Yi-ning Wang
We visited Teacher Shu-ying Tsai at Saturday afternoon. She told us she was already 44 years old. I asked her how long did she take up the job. She answered 11 years. She told us she liked telling stories to children, so she trained the story-telling mothers to do so. She talked about those unforgettable experiences. Once a baseball player wanted to give up training to listen to her story. In a winter, it was so cold that she wanted to give up, but the expectation of children finally cheered her up. I was very moved by her behavior.

My ideas
Reporter: Hsuan-hao Hsu
I know the meaning of sacrifice that day when I knew that Teacher Shu-ying Tsai has done the job for 11 years. When we asked why she tells stories, she answered that “because I like stories, so I want to share them with others.” That supported her to tell stories everyday. When we asked why she trained so many story-telling mothers, she answered that “I want to spread the stories as far as possible.” She also told us some unforgettable experience, such as a baseball player wanted to quit the team to attend her book club. We thanked her at the end of the interview. I was filled with admiration for her love toward children.

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