| Summary: | 碩士 === 明道大學 === 課程與教學研究所 === 104 === The education administration encourages currently teachers to setup professional learning community as one way to improve professional intellectual capacity. Since it is not sure if the learning community improves professional growth, which needs to clarify, few professional learning communities operated in special education. Little research on the learning community in preschool and special educational fields has been published yet in Taiwan, which more research is needed to find its function. A professional learning community formed by preschool special education itinerant teachers in Taipei was studied, in order to discuss the common goals to be concentrated by the members in the learning community, to find out the changes of cognition on the role of itinerant teachers, and to understand deeply professional intellectual capacity growth of the members to be completed through the corporative learning model in the learning community as well.
It was a case study by interviewing six community members participated in the community for more than three semesters, analyzing information through collecting documents such as interviews, reflection journals, and meeting notes, and integrating related information through the context based on the research purposes. The results were as follows: 1. the concentrated goal of the professional learning community was collaborative consultation model.
2. Having attended the professional learning community, the preschool special education itinerant teachers changed their role cognition to consultant.
3. The operation of professional learning community enhanced the growth of professional teaching skills, communication abilities, and teacher’s social support in different degrees. Therefore, the learning community did improve the professional intellectual capacity of the members in the studied case. It is suggested that creating a professional learning community need a clear goal and the government should give the learning community in preschool and special education field more support.
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