The idea is to satisfy the requirements of the nine-year integrated curriculum while avoiding the traditional one-way Chinese teaching approach, where the teacher is only asked to shoehorn information into children's minds. The goal is to establish a new "dialogue style" of education in which teachers and students engage in a two-way interaction.
人本基金會的教育創新理念之一，是推行「主題教學」，一方面配合九年一貫「合科教學」的精神，一方面把傳統單向灌輸式的教學，改變為師生互動的「對話式教學」。