| Summary: | 碩士 === 臺南師範學院 === 國民教育研究所 === 90 === A Study of the Opinions of Elementary School Educational Personnel on the Teacher Career Ladder Program
Abstract
The main purposes of this study were (1) to explore the relevant theories of teacher career ladder program; (2) to analyze the present conditions of the teacher career ladder program in the U.S.A., Japan and Mainland China; (3) to investigate the opinions of elementary school educational personnel on teacher career ladder program; (4) to provide some suggestions for implementing the program in the future.
This study had methodologically adopted document analysis, questionnaire survey and semi-structured interview. The subjects including 696 elementary school educational personnel were selected from elementary schools in Tainan city, Tainan county, Kaohsiung city, Kaohsiung county and Pingtung county via random sampling based upon different levels and 10 elementary school educational personnel were selected for interviews. The data were analyzed by using the statistics of frequency distribution and Chi-Square Test.
The main conclusions of this study were as follows:
1.The elementary school educational personnel agreed that teacher career ladder program makes teacher work more hard, improves teacher’s teaching effectiveness, and promotes teacher’s professional figure.
2.The elementary school educational personnel agreed that teacher career ladder program will help teacher career development and provides promotion opportunities.
3.The elementary school educational personnel agreed that teacher career ladder program encourages young teacher, especially there is exemption on the promotion for excellent teacher.
4.The elementary school educational personnel agreed that it is not necessary to have a limit of people number on each stage. Further more, the certification of teacher career ladder must have a limit of year.
5.The elementary school educational personnel agreed that teacher career ladder program gives teacher pressure and punishes inappropriate teachers.
6.The elementary school educational personnel disagreed that teacher career ladder program will make campus more harmonious, and agreed that the parents will pay more attention on the level of the teacher.
7.In-service teacher attending teacher career ladder program should be based upon their free choice and provide certain level before they attend the program.
8.The elementary school educational personnel highly agreed with the teacher career ladder program.
According to above conclusions, the suggestions were as follows:
1.Suggestions to the education administration authority:
(1)To hold public meeting to collect opinions.
(2)To provide a legal foundation for teacher career ladder program.
(3)To invite some schools to do good demonstration.
(4)To establish a review committee to review teachers promotion.
(5)To reduce the required seniority for advancing to a higher stage.
(6)To provide neutral title of teacher career ladder program.
(7)To avoid the disadvantages of teacher career ladder program.
(8)To operate properly on the in-service teacher.
(9)To make a 4 stage system of teacher career ladder.
(10)To create a diversified standard of teacher promotion
(11)To have no limit of people number on the teacher career ladder program.
2.Suggestions to elementary school educational personnel:
(1)To promote professional figure and improve teaching effectiveness always.
(2)To make a suitable plan for career development.
Key Words: elementary school educational personnel
teacher career ladder program
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