英文摘要 |
This study explores teachers' needs and professional development strategies on Health Education in primary schools. Because of cluster sampling technique, totally 145 Health Education teachers from four primary schools joined the study. Research instrument for the study was constructed on two dimensions. One was "teacher's self-cognition" inventory, and the other "teacher's professional developing self-evaluation" inventory. Both the research tools had well content validity and internal consistency. Three significant results were obtained after data collected and analyzed. Firstly, although teachers regard Health Education as an important subject for student to learn, there are relatively lower scores of instruction proficiency. Three in five topics in Health Education had such circumstances, which were "Growth and Development", "Safety Life" and "Public Health and Environment". In other words, these three topics enjoy high priority in teachers' training and promoting their professional development. Secondly, among 16 core issues in Health Education, while teachers recognized "Safety Education" and "Sex Education" were very important for student to learn, instruction proficiency scored relatively lower. Furthermore, researcher applied Important-Performance Analysis technique and put those 16 core issues' importance and instruction proficiency scores into four quadrants. 7 issues must be dealt with first, which included "Safety Education" in quadrant II (named "prior development zone") and six issues in quadrant III (named "secondary development zone"). The third, among 5 aspects of educational practice, teachers recognized that the capability of "Professional Knowledge to Teach" was the highest requirement for them to supply. Base on these essential findings, the researcher addressed strategies for educational administration to promote teachers' professional development on Health Education for primary schools in Taipei. |