The Study on the Relationships between Elder Education Teachers’ Professional Competency and Training Needs

• Main Authors: Chiung-yao Tseng, 曾瓊瑤
• Other Authors: Hui-chuan Wei
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64869679231888616468

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 高齡者教育所 === 98 === The study discusses the professional competency of the elder education and its relation with training needs, aiming to: explore the qualification of the professional competency of the elder education teachers; explore the needs of the elder education teachers; analyze if there is any difference between the professional competency of the teachers from different background variation and its training needs; analyze the related phenomenon between the professional competency of the elder education teachers and its training needs. This study, mentioned above, provides suggestions and references for future gerontology teachers in Taiwan. The research method mainly adopts questionnaire survey. The sample draws from Ministry of Education Senior Active Learning and Resource Center--located in Taichung, Miaoli, Changhua and Nanto counties and cities. The total number of questionnaires is 225, of which the valid is 200, the valid recycled percentage 91.1. The statistic methods that analyzed the collected data are processed by frequency distribution, percent, mean, standard deviation, t-test, one-way analyses of variance, product-moment correlation etc. The conclusions from the research are as follow, 1. Professional competency of the elder education that qualifies the level of “Teaching attitude” is high; that qualifies the level of “Elder of Body and mind characteristic” is low. 2. The training need of “teaching competency” for the elder education teachers is high, while “The policy for the elder education” is low. 3. The professional competency of the elder education teachers is closely related to his or her variance of background. 4. The professional competency of the elder education teachers is positively related to their needs of training. Above all, According to the conclusions, this study proposed suggestions so as to be used for reference to the governmental divisions, elder education teachers and the future researchers.