An action research on character education for fourth-grade elementary students

• Main Authors: Huang,Mei-Kuei, 黃梅貴
• Other Authors: Tsai, Ching-Tien
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/23511143562585080783

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 教學專業發展數位學習碩士在職專班 === 100 === ABSTRACT An action research was adopted to explore the accessibility and effectiveness of character education for fourth grade students. The research lasted for 10 weeks with 25 fourth grades whom were also taught by the author. Honesty, Respect, Care, Gratefulness, Cooperation and Sharing were set as 5 main themes for character education program which was applied by storytelling teaching method in this research. The data for t-test analysis were developed overall from teaching notes, teaching reflection, teaching observation, students' feedback, parent's feedback and questionnaire. The research was concluded as follows: It was revealed after examining moral education that scenario analysis was the foundation of action program. Furthermore, the analysis of learning scenario in advance could assist the researcher in lesson preparation and knowing needs and wants of subjects. Also, the whole process went smoothly by creating team building with other teachers. It was shown that teachers who could organize a character eduction learning community,extend the diversity of lesson content, put the character education into practice, and know how to work with parents and other teachers were the developers at the classroom level. In reviewing the application of character education program, it was shown that adapting diverse teaching resources could enhance the learning motivation of students. The moral concepts and actions were influenced by latent lessons. To be attractive to students, teachers should properly use multimedia and variant resources as the tool of teaching. In reviewing the evaluation of character education program, it was shown that using picture books and multimedia as the transmission of character education was highly accepted by students and improved the relationship in the classroom. Most of all, the variant teaching skills could apparently increase the interests of learning. Finally, the above results will be provided as suggestions for future researchers. Key words：Character education、Action research