An Investigation on the Problems of the Intern Teacher''s Educational Practice at the Eiementary Schools in Taipei County

• Main Authors: YU CHUN TSE, 游純澤
• Other Authors: 林文律
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33216187647431642007

碩士 === 國立台北師範學院 === 國民教育研究所 === 91 === Following the “ Teacher Training Law” promulgated in 1994, “The Law of Teaching Certificate and Educational Practice for Teachers under Senior High Schools, including Pre-Schools” was also promulgated in 1995. More than fifty thousand graduates have been affected since the new law implemented in 1997. These intern teachers have been encountering lots of problems, and which forced the educational administrations to amend or explain the relative laws again and again. Can such a system satisfy the foremost peoples including the administrative personnel of the educational practice institutions, the mentors, and the intern teachers? Is there anything to be improved? These questions are worthy of further investigation. This research is to inquire about the problems existing in the intern teacher’s educational practice at the elementary schools in Taipei County. The main purpose is concluded as following four points: 1. To probe the problems caused during intern teacher’s educational practice at the elementary schools in Taipei County. 2. To understand the different opinions about intern teacher’s educational practice from the administrative personnel, the mentors, and the intern teachers at the elementary schools in Taipei County. 3. To probe the different viewpoints about the new “Teacher Training Law” from the administrative personnel, the mentors, and the intern teachers at the elementary schools in Taipei County. 4. To offer, based on the findings of this research, some suggestions about the intern teacher’s educational practice for the further reference of the educational administrations. To accomplish above purpose, firstly the researcher studied documents about the theory and practical incidents to build up the basic structure for this survey, then a copy of self-developed questionnaire named “An Investigation on problems of the Intern Teacher’s Educational Practice at the Elementary Schools in Taipei County” was adopted. Later, some interviews were done additionally. After careful analysis based on above data, conclusions are finally reached as follows: 1. As to the work of the intern teacher’s educational practice, the administrative personnel are quite satisfied, the average satisfactory percentage is 77.2%. 2. As to the work of the intern teacher’s educational practice, the mentors are also pretty satisfied; the average satisfactory percentage is 80.2%. 3. As to the work of the intern teacher’s educational practice, the average percentage of the intern teachers’ satisfaction is 72.7%. 4. For the administrative personnel, the satisfactory percentage toward amendment of future education practice system is 55.2%. 5. For the mentors, the satisfactory percentage toward amendment of future education practice system is 45.0%. 6. For the intern teachers, the satisfactory percentage toward amendment of future education practice system is 52.4% Based on above findings, the researcher would like to offer some suggestions for the education administrations, the teacher training institutions, the teacher practice institutions, the mentors, and the intern teacher for their reference to cope with future work of educational practice. （A） Suggestions for the educational administrations: 1. I n order to improve the efficiency of the educational practice institutions, certain schemes in praise of those who perform well with the educational practice should be established. 2. To assure the quality of education practice, more studying courses and certificate should be proposed for the mentors to improve their ability. 3. The subsidy (8,000 dollars) for each intern teacher is thought to be far to low. The government may consider the possibility of raising the amount if the financial status allows. 4. Most of the elementary teachers are not willing to take the jobs as mentors, therefore certain encouraging or praising plans are necessary. 5. Some part of the current educational practice law is not workable; it should be modified subject to practical necessity. (B) Suggestions for the teacher training institutions: 1. The interaction between the educational practice institutions and the training institutions should be increased; especially the guiding teachers should visit the intern teachers at the educational practice institutions more frequently. 2. More movement research toward educational problems and acknowledgement interchange between the teacher training institutions and educational practice institutions should be done. 3. To express appreciation for the mentors’ hard work, certain reward is needed. 4. The emphasis of teacher training courses should be laid on the concern that whether it could cope up with future teaching conditions, so that the difference between the theory and the reality can be reduced. (C) Suggestions for the educational practice institutions: 1. Plans for educational practice should be made previously and approved by the school administration conference to become the school regulations. 2. Administrative practice is necessary, however it may cause the intern teachers’ complaints unless the work is properly planned. Besides, it is not appropriate to design long administrative practice, one to three hours per week seems to be reasonable 3. The right and responsibility of the intern teachers should be properly defended. 4. More attention should be paid to how individual intern teacher get along with his or her own mentor. In case of any trouble between the two sides, the educational practice institution should work with the teacher training institution to deal with the trouble or probably to change the mentor. 5. It is considerable to have a consultant team consists of some mentors to take care of the educational practice of all intern teachers, instead of traditional method: one mentor with one intern teacher. 6. More diverse courses should be proposed for the further progress of intern teachers and mentors. To sum up, the education administrations, the teacher training institutions and the teacher practice institutions should be more to attach importance to the problems of the intern teacher’s educational.practice, or it will be strong influencing our educational policy, the quality of education and the result of our education.