2019 Educational Innovation 100｜Former TV host Sunay creates a new way to teach ethnic language on her program Brain

Sunay, a former host of an educational program on Taiwan and a finalist for the TV Golden Bell Award, is now a teacher at Danfeng Elementary School in New Taipei. She tries to teach urban aboriginal schoolchildren about their own language and culture through play-based learning, starting with basic counting.

"Cue me, cue me," waving a cardboard hand sign, the children attracted the attention of the instructor, ready to answer questions. The classroom scene, which is like a TV video and is not narrated by the teacher alone, was created by Sunay (舒娜伊), a former host of Aboriginal Peoples' Television (原住民族電視) and a teacher at Danfeng Elementary School (丹凤国小學) in New Taipei City. Sunay, a former TV host and teacher at Danfeng Elementary School in New Taipei City, was in the classroom.

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Sunay, an Amis who grew up in New Taipei City, is inextricably linked to the culture of her ethnic group in both her upbringing and her work. Not only do Sunay's parents speak the language of their ethnic group, but she has also worked for an indigenous television station for eight years. During that time, she was the host and producer of a children's education program, and also participated in the production of "La La La", which was shortlisted for the TV Golden Bell Award for variety program. She has a lively personality, loves challenges, and has performed well in the TV industry, but she never thought that she would embark on a career as a teacher, which she resisted and lived a relatively stable life.

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The desire to teach came from an experience as a substitute teacher. She was a local TV presenter when she took a three-day substitute teaching post, and in the music classroom, she met students from the same indigenous ethnic group as herself, who were marginalized on campus. Unforgetting the complexity of the moment, Sunay re-examines herself. Sunay re-examined her unfulfilled desire to teach, "I wanted to be there for the kids, to teach them to have confidence and to believe that they can be great too," she said.

She took the exam for a teaching position, and now she's officially teaching on campus, but she's discovered the dilemma of passing on the language in the city. Some teachers even discussed with her, "Why can't the children learn such a simple word, even if they have been taught it?

In the face of this confusion, Sunay interviewed teachers of ethnic languages, and also sent back statistics on the use of ethnic languages in the home to analyze the reasons.

So Sunay started with "game-based" teaching, reversing the traditional narrative approach. The game is also based on the Amis language, which is the most widely spoken language in the school, and includes 100 basic vocabulary words, including numbers, directions, plants, etc. The game is also based on the Amis language, which is the most widely spoken language in the school.

"lima (number 5), enem (number 6), pito (number 7)" "Pah! The sound of the ethnic language being spoken and the tapping of the table echoed through the teaching space one after the other. The classic card game "Heart Attack" has been transformed into an Amis version. "There are 13 ways to play "Original Table Samurai", including not only number games but also word games***. The board games are based on classic games such as Eye and Hand, Flip Card Memory, and Heart Attack, which are good for the smoothness of the program and increase the chance of practicing the ethnic language.

Protecting shellfish, small hands of love, egg pudding cartons as mannequins, seemingly Yangchun table games, but is y loved by students. They are also willing to teach their new vocabulary to non-indigenous students for cultural exchange.

Seeing the effectiveness of the teaching, Sunay has recently expanded the number of students who are learning the language to a wider range. Sunay has also expanded the reach of the ethnic language board game. He joined the "New Taipei City National Education Counseling Group" to promote this board game among the team teachers, and continues to produce multiple ethnic language versions with his partners, including the Bunun, Paiwan, and Taroko, and so on. "We all grew up with the legend that if we become people who know how to use our language and cherish our culture, we will be able to return to our ancestral land in the future. This belief exists in our hearts and we want to share our culture with the next generation," Sunay said. Sunay said.