| Summary: | 碩士 === 慈濟大學 === 教育研究所 === 92 === The purpose of this study is to explore the Hualien County Elementary & Junior High school teachers’ in-service education and their professional development in the school years from 2001 to 2003. There are four types of in-service teacher’ education are four levels by the contents of practice. They are：’’seminar-and-observation”, ”discussion-and-experience sharing”, ”practice-and-output”, and ”internet class-and-self study”. The participant are 178 elementary school teachers, and 60 junior high school teachers. The research instrument is “Hualien County Junior high and elementary school in-service teacher education & profession development questionnaire”. The major findings are as follows: a. The “discussion-and-experience sharing” is the most popular practice for the elementary school teachers, the follow-up training style will be “seminar-and-observation”, whereas teachers think they benefit most from “practice-and-output” type. The most popular among junior high school teachers is “discussion-and-experience sharing”, the follow-up and most benefit are “practice-and-output”. b. The size of school and location show significance for elementary teachers. c. The age and teaching subjects/fields reveals significance for junior high school teachers. There are two implications from the results of this study, as follows： a. The in-service education should take teachers’ needs and motivation into account. b. The in-service education should consider teachers’ service years, teaching subjects/fields, and the school location.
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