The study of teachers'' knowledge of elementary school teacher training curriculum in Teachers college

• Main Authors: SUN, YAO-YUNG, 孫耀永
• Other Authors: Lai Ching-Piao
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1997
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/84458873794821753083

碩士 === 國立台中師範學院 === 國民教育研究所 === 85 === Abstract This study focused on the teachers'' knowledge of elementary school teacher training curriculum .The content analysis method was adopted to clear the categories of teachers'' knowledge of the 1987 elementary school training curriculum in the teachers college . The conclusions were as follows: 1.Teachers'' knowledge contained seven categories: content knowledge, general pedagogical knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, curriculum knowledge, knowledge of learning and learners'' characteristics, knowledge of educational philosophical and historical ground 、educational contexts and law, and liberal knowledge. 2.The 1987 elementary school training curriculum of the teachers college provided the beginning teachers with the following teachers'' knowledge. (1). General courses provided the beginning teacher with content knowledge, but there was bias among the subjects. (2). Professional courses provided the beginning teacher with content knowledge, general pedagogical knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, curriculum knowledge, knowledge of learning and learners'' characteristics, and knowledge of educational philosophical and historical ground、educational contexts and law. (3). Major courses of school administration in the department of elementary education provided the beginning teachers with knowledge of educational philosophical and historical ground 、 educational contexts and law; major courses of guidance in the department of elementary education provided the beginning teachers with general pedagogical knowledge ; major courses of special education in the department of elementary education provided the beginning teachers with knowledge of learning and learners'' charactertics; major courses of the following departments including music, fine arts and physical education in the department of elementary education, the department of language education, the department of society education, and the department of mathematics & science education provided the beginning teacher with content knowledge in each specific subjects. 3. The lacks of teachers'' knowledge in the elementary school teachers training curriculum were: (1). According to the analysis of the training curriculum, there was no content knowledge in morality, no pedagogical content knowledge in mority&health, no knowledge of instructional ethics and morality, no knowledge of classroom management, no knowledge of curriculum above the classroom, no knowledge of selecting textbooks, no knowledge of cross- curriculum, no knowledge of teaching how to learn, no knowledge of individual differences and special learners in the classroom, no knowledge of legal right responsibilities of school teachers, no knowledge of school-community (home) relationship, no knowledge of educational history, no knowledge of educational law, no knowledge of educational administration, and no knowledge of educational policy. (2). According to the analysis of the instructional problems of the beginning teachers , the deficits of the elementary school teacher training curriculum were, there was little knowledge of instructional media, of the developmental characteristics of pupils, of learning and cognitive thinking of pupils, of teaching how to learn, of individual differences and special learners in the classroom, of instruction, of curriculum, of counseling theories and techniques for children and of classroom management.