| Summary: | 碩士 === 東海大學 === 教育研究所在職專班 === 106 === While the decrease in birth rate has led to gradual decline in the class numbers of elementary schools, it results in the increase of small elementary schools. Therefore, partial rural elementary schools which are short of students face the challenges of being closed or merged. As the Three-Type Acts of Experimental Education was legislated in November, 2017 by Legislature Yuan, it not only allowed students self-study at home, but also offered those public elementary schools that short of students a flexibility to practice experimental education, and a chance to transform by the reference of “Enforcement Act for School-based Experimental Education.” There is a significant difference between the modes of teaching in experimental education and traditional education, as well as the corresponding changes in the field faced by teachers. The reform in education could be implemented in class given the fact that teacher’s attitudes toward the reform are essential. With a qualitative methodology approach, a rural elementary school was studied as a case. Semi-structured interviews are conducted with the principle, the director and four teachers to realize the development of their roles and the changes in attitudes while facing the educational reforms.
The preliminary findings reveal that the arrangements of courses for teachers enhance their understanding of experimental education. After the practice of experimental education, teachers became the designers of the courses rather than executors; in addition, their cooperation in learning and team teaching also resulted in a more effective teaching as the consequence.
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