S Senior High School and UNESCO Associated School

S Senior High School is a natural candidate to be a UNESCO Associated School.
ASPnet schools are encouraged to conduct pilot projects on four main themes” (http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=14697&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html): 1. World concerns and the role of the United Nations system; 2. Human rights, democracy and tolerance; 3. lntercultural learning; and 4. Environmental concern. S SHS covers almost all the themes with its classes and extracurricular activities.
With its Science Course, S SHS provides science literacy not only for the students of that course but also for the students belonging to the International Cultural Studies Course (ICSC). This science literacy enables and encourages the students to face the “environmental concerns” of today; such as global warming and crisis of native species caused by the introduction of foreign species.
S’s ICSC has had nearly 2 decades of rich experience in enhancing “intercultural learning”, and its Committee for Human Rights Education has concentrated its energy and resources on developing students’ tolerance, as well as teaching the virtue of human rights and democracy. There is no doubt that S’s social science classes have dealt with “world concerns” and “the role of the United Nations system”.
To develop S SHS further to make it a front runner of UNESCO Associated Schools, we only have to keep the word “and” in mind: “World concerns and the role of the United Nations system”; “Human rights, democracy and tolerance” and the role of the United Nations system; “lntercultural learning” and the role of the United Nations system; “Environmental concern” and the role of the United Nations system.
With the world concerns too huge and grave, people living today tend to feel helpless and pessimistic. When students learn “and the role of the United Nations system”, they can develop their imagination and strategic thinking to overcome such feeling, which is the duty we teachers have to do as a mentor of the next generations.