| Summary: | 碩士 === 朝陽科技大學 === 幼兒保育系碩士班 === 100 === Abstract
Ministry of Education (MOE) had added marine education as the newly emerging issue into the Grade 1-9 Curriculum in 2008 and had implemented in 2011. However, this study was focused whether the elementary school teachers have the professional competency in teaching marine education and also on the implemented situations. The purpose of this study is to realize the professional competency on marine education of the elementary school teachers, and the situation on implementing marine education. Through these data, we can be able to figure out the relationship between the professional competency in teaching marine education of the elementary school teachers and the implemented situation on marine education. The present study investigated the professional competency and implementation of marine education in elementary school teachers in Taichung City. The survey instrument was a self-developed “Questionnaire Investigated the Professional Competency and Implementation of Marine Education in Elementary School Teachers of Taichung City” .The participants were 567 elementary teachers in Taichung City and were asked to fill in the survey questionnaires. Descriptive statistics, t-test, one way analysis of variance, Pearson correlation analysis, and Scheffe’s method of data processing were used on the obtained data.
The findings of the study were listed as follows:
1. The overall performance in professional competency and implementation of marine education were not as expected from the Taichung City elementary school teachers.
2. In the professional competency of the marine education from the Taichung City elementary school teachers, the male teachers are better than the female teachers. The more hours that the teachers attended to marine education performed better than those teachers attended less hours.
3. In the implementation of the marine education, the elementary school teachers in Taichung city in these four sides had the better performances: (1) the younger teachers, (2) the inexperienced teachers, (3) the teachers who attended more hours in conferences, and (4) the teachers who teaching in the school of the original Taichung city.
4. There is a positive correlation between the professional competency and implementation of marine education from the Taichung City elementary school teachers.
Finally, based on the above results, the suggestions were proposed for the authority concerned, schools , elementary school teachers and future researchers. Hopefully, the results could be possible to make some contributions in marine education.
Keywords: marine education, professional competency
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