校園動物保護教育委員會會議
今天，我在何秘書長的辦公室完成了兩項任務。首先，我幫他打包信封，裡面裝著動物保護宣傳冊和即將舉辦的活動的傳單。
之後，我旁聽了他與校園動物保護教育委員會的會議。該委員會旨在聯合有飼養校犬經驗的教師，共同推廣校園動物保護。為了在學校落實動物保護，他們計劃推廣一系列動物保護教育材料，並將其融入學校課程。這一切都是為了培養學生對動物的保護意識。他們提到，過去曾與新北市政府合作，組織過許多校園動物照護的教師培訓。透過參與宣傳和教育活動，他們還可以改變公眾對流浪狗的看法，這也是動物保護的重要方面。這次實習讓我學到的一個重要經驗是：沒有宣傳活動，就沒有媒體報道；沒有媒體報道，就很難引起人們的注意。
會中也提到，有教師認為應該對校園動物進行嚴格管理。這與我在美國的經歷截然不同。在美國，我在小學、國中甚至高中都接觸過校園動物。小學時，我們有兩個與動物相關的項目：一個是飼養毛毛蟲，觀察它們的變態過程；另一個是飼養小雞，學習如何照顧和尊重動物的生命。國中時，我的班主任養了一隻寵物龍貓，每個學生都可以在課間輪流照顧它和它的籠子。
高中時，我的生物老師在教室裡養了一條她自己的寵物蛇，這條蛇似乎沒有什麼教學用途──只是供人觀賞而已。所以，看到大家對校園寵物問題如此熱烈地討論，我感到很驚訝——我一直以為這只是學校裡一個比較非正式的教育環節，主要由老師組織，沒有學校或政府的干預。
他們的主要想法是讓委員會提出想法，然後由政府機構（例如教育部）來實施，因為他們在這方面資金和人力都比較有限。如同先前所說，他們認為動物保護教育本身就應該納入學校課程，現在已被歸類為「品格教育」。會議結束時，我有機會參觀了三所學校和校園動物，其中兩所位於新北，一所位於桃園，一所位於台中。我很期待親眼看看台北小學生的日常生活是什麼樣的！
School Animal Protection Education Committee Meeting
Today, I completed two tasks in Secretary-General He's office. First, I helped him pack envelopes containing animal protection brochures and flyers for upcoming events.
Afterward, I sat in on his meeting with the School Animal Protection Education Committee. This committee aims to unite teachers with experience caring for school pets to promote campus animal protection. To implement animal protection in schools, they plan to promote a series of animal protection educational materials and integrate them into the school curriculum. All of this is to cultivate students' awareness of animal protection. They mentioned that they have previously collaborated with the New Taipei City Government to organize many teacher training programs on school animal care. Through participation in publicity and education activities, they can also change public perception of stray dogs, which is also an important aspect of animal protection. One important lesson I learned from this internship is: without publicity campaigns, there is no media coverage; and without media coverage, it is extremely difficult to attract people's attention, which is necessary for the success of public policy initiatives.
The meeting also mentioned that some teachers believe that school animals should be strictly managed. This is very different from my experience in the United States, where I have encountered school animals in elementary, junior high, and even high school. In elementary school, we had two animal-related projects: one was raising caterpillars and observing their metamorphosis; the other was raising chicks to learn about the life cycle of birds. In junior high, my homeroom teacher had a pet chinchilla, and each student could take turns caring for it and its cage during breaks.
In high school, my biology teacher kept her own pet snake in the classroom, which seemed to have no educational purpose—it was just for display. Therefore, I was surprised to see such a heated discussion about school pets—I had always thought it was just a relatively informal educational activity in schools, mainly organized by teachers, without school or government intervention. None of the school pets were meant to serve the purpose of promoting animal protection education, so it was interesting to see how the same thing can be viewed from a different lens in different countries.
Their main idea was to have a committee propose ideas, which would then be implemented by government agencies (such as the Ministry of Education), as they have limited funding and manpower in this area. As mentioned earlier, they believe animal protection education should itself be incorporated into the school curriculum, as it is now categorized as "character education." At the end of the conference, I was given the opportunity to visit three schools and their campus animals, two in New Taipei City, one in Taoyuan, and one in Taichung. I'm really looking forward to seeing what the daily lives of elementary school students in Taipei are like!
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