✨Development of the Smart Reading Professional Community
Taipei Municipal Wenshan District Zhiqing Elementary School, to promote the professional growth of smart teachers in the regular use of smart classrooms and to deepen and refine teaching models, in addition to initiating the Smart Reading Cross-School Professional Learning Community Project to promote teacher exchange between schools, Zhiqing Elementary School also established the "
Cross-Strait Four Regions Remote Smart Classroom Alliance" with Hong Kong, Chengdu, Xiamen, and other places to exchange ideas with smart teachers across the four regions, realizing the ultimate goal of "Zhiqing i-Co-Good" for teachers, students, schools, and the alliance to thrive together.
The Smart Reading Community holds community open classes every year, and 2025 marks its 9th year!
Facing the AI era, educational technology tools are becoming increasingly intelligent, and AI entering the classroom is a major trend. In the 2025 open class, the focus of the community's collaborative research is still "subject teaching ideas," first determining what learning achievements students should achieve, then screening key teaching content, and finally arranging teaching steps. Only after confirming the appropriateness and fluency of the teaching context will digital learning tools be added as a propeller.
Taipei Municipal Zhiqing Elementary School 2025 Smart Reading Community City-Level Open Class The good classroom pursued by the Smart Reading Community is one where students can enjoy learning even without digital tools! Although AI brings many unexpected magic moments, the community's collaborative preparation still strictly requires partners to practice basic skills—everyone must start with text analysis, absolutely, absolutely not allowing AI to do the work for them, and not becoming a tool manipulated by AI on the podium! Instead, they should be wise teachers who can make good use of AI.
This professional community, which is 9 years old in 2025, has witnessed a group of teachers' innovative passion for teaching. From the beginning, in the 105 academic year, "smart reading" was seen by many as a gimmick, and using tablets and HiTeach in the classroom was also regarded as a show of skill. However, the community initiator, Teacher Xu Huiling, did not argue much, but rather opened the classroom, welcoming observation and joining the community at any time, providing resources for "collaborative preparation" and "collaborative learning."
After the establishment of the "Sokrates Digital Lesson Observation Platform" in the school's Qingyun Academy, community collaboration became more convenient. Especially for partners whose class schedules conflict and cannot attend classroom observations, they can use other times to watch teaching videos on the platform and add records; or during community time, they can directly open the videos and everyone can comment and discuss together.
Qingyun Academy, Zhiqing Elementary School, Wenshan District, Taipei City However, teachers generally have an image problem they can't let go of, making it another difficult hurdle to get everyone to accept recording classes and digital observation and discussion. Fortunately, the successive additions of Directors Yang Baoyu, Wang Xinjie, and Li Wanchun demonstrated a positive attitude towards public observation and discussion with their actions, providing multiple lesson examples for the partners who joined later to observe.
The function design of AI Sokrates Digital Lesson Observation in HiTeach has many flexible settings, also considering the "image burden" pressure of some teachers, including the option to record nothing at all (i.e., simply do classroom analysis), whether to record computer screen or camera video, whether to transcribe audio into text, whether to make it public or private, etc., all of which can be decided by oneself.
Over the years, with constant explanations on how to apply "Sokrates data" as a great supplement to their professional development, new partners are willing to try recording classes every year. Although the increase is slow, as long as it doesn't stagnate, it is growth, and it will be the supporting force for the next brave person. A guest who participated in the classroom observation commented: "Most schools should worry that even if they have a digital observation and discussion system, teachers may not be willing to use it. Unexpectedly, not only are teachers in Zhiqing willing to use it, but it is not required by the school (administration). The teachers are really admirable!"
In the 2025 series of open classes, Principal Zhang Ruiting also took the lead, personally teaching a double green light open class [Aesthetic Snakes Out], growing together with community partners, which is very important for the professional development of Zhiqing Elementary School teachers.
Smart Reading Community 2025 Series of Open Classes: Principal Zhang Ruiting also demonstrated a principal's open class 
AI Sokrates Timeline of Principal Zhang Ruiting's Open Class To date, this community has never changed its insistence on the basic connotation of "smart reading." Professor Xu Yujian of National Taipei University of Education, who has participated in community activities many times, also reminded: "Chinese language ability is accumulated bit by bit." In technology-assisted classrooms, too fast a pace and dazzling tool operations may blur the focus of learning. How to appropriately deconstruct learning tasks and select suitable tools is also one of the key points of lesson preparation that should be considered more.
It is indeed very tiring to conduct annual community activities every year, but each time a problem is solved and each activity is successfully completed, some sense of accomplishment is gained. Learning new teaching ideas and techniques is also the same! Teacher Xu Huiling said that it is not easy to manage a voluntary teacher community within the school, and she really does not gain any benefit from it, but she is still willing to invest her efforts, not only to do it, but also to expect it to be better every day.
Professor Zhang Yihua of National Chengchi University emphasized during the lesson discussion: "Whether it is learning or teaching, you must be immersed in it, able to enjoy it, and you will be happy, and you can keep moving forward and growing!" Professor Zhang further pointed out that the application of the HiTeach smart teaching system can realize a "teaching with data, decision-making with basis, learning with fun, and all worries gone" intelligent and data-oriented teaching environment, which is the core belief that a professional learning community should have.
✨About Zhiqing Elementary School's AI Sokrates Digital Observation and Discussion Environment
The AI Sokrates digital observation and discussion environment established in Qingyun Academy of Taipei Municipal Zhiqing Elementary School adopts the [
AI Sokrates Digital Lesson Observation Ultimate Plan ], with the addition of digital observation and discussion-related licenses to the
HiTeach Professional Edition to present the various data and materials required for lesson discussion and research on the AI Sokrates Digital Lesson Observation Platform.
The solution adopted for digital observation and discussion in general classrooms is the [
AI Sokrates Digital Lesson Observation Solution ], with the addition of digital observation and discussion-related licenses to the
HiTeach Professional Edition: "USB Recording Support license," "Sokrates Lesson Observation app licenses," "Sokrates Video Service," "Voice-to-Text," etc., to present the various data and materials required for lesson discussion and research on the Sokrates Digital Lesson Observation Platform. It is powerful and convenient to use!
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