The highlights of the Metal Crafts Department's educational approach are mainly reflected in the following aspects:
●Cultivating Professional Talent:
The Metal Crafts Department aims to cultivate a professional foundation in metal crafts and design, and to nurture students' abilities for further studies. In addition to teaching traditional manual operation techniques and design expertise, it also imparts skills in computer graphics and product design, enabling students to have design-related technologies and skills.
●Diverse Skills Training:
The teaching content covers multiple fields such as gold and silver jewelry processing, advertising design, and applied design, and encourages students to participate in skills competitions, craftsmanship competitions, and certifications.
●Creative Teaching and Competitions:
The school promotes creative teaching and guides students to participate in relevant creative design competitions, thereby promoting diverse arts education and cultivating students' well-rounded development. Additionally, it actively guides students to participate in national skills competitions, industrial technology competitions, international youth invention competitions, and science exhibition competitions, and has won numerous awards.
●Technical Education and Certification:
The school promotes technical education and actively promotes skill assessment activities in accordance with government policies, cultivating basic technical personnel in the field of metal crafts.
●Industry-Academia Exchange and Industry Promotion:
The school enhances industry-academia exchanges, organizes various skills competitions and related workshops, cultivates talent related to metal crafts, and promotes creative industries.
●Promotion of Culture and Art:
The school promotes metal craft creative cultural activities, participates in relevant art activities, and inherits and promotes the unique art culture of the steel industry in Kaohsiung2. In addition, it also promotes the exchange of metal craft creative related activities, bringing together the concepts of a metal craft lifestyle movement, and promoting civic aesthetics to create an environment where art is integrated into life and life is art, improving the spiritual quality of life for citizens.
In summary, the highlights of the Metal Crafts Department's educational approach lie in providing diverse learning content, cultivating students' professional skills, creative design abilities, and appreciation for culture and art in the field of metal crafts, and actively participating in competitions and certifications to enhance students' competitiveness.