Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 教育政策與領導研究所碩士班 === 96 === The purposes of this study was to understand the needs of professional growth and ways of participation for expert teachers in elementary school, and to analyze varieties of those needs and ways due to background variables of expert teachers. Data were collected by conducting a questionnaire survey. The sample of this survey research consisted of school teachers who were acting as teaching advisers of Elementary Education Advisory Group. A total of 261 teaching advisers were selected as expert teachers.
Data of the survey study were analyzed by using descriptive statistics as well as t-test and one- way ANOVA. The following conclusions were derived from the synthesis of research findings:
1.Professional growth in “Interpersonal relationship skills” is highly needed for most expert teachers.
2.Participation in “Study and grow up activities” is the most popular type of participation for expert teachers.
3.“Involvement degree” is considerablely high in the professional growth participation for most expert teachers.
4.There are significant differences in professional growth needs due to education background, seniority and position of expert teachers.
5.There are significant differences in types of participation due to age, seniority, position and field of major of expert teachers.
6.There are significant differences in degree of participation due to the seniority, scale of the school of expert teachers.
Based on conclusions, this research proposed some suggestions for educational administrative authorities, school organization, expert teachers, and further studies.
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