英文摘要 |
A Maori proverb, ''Let the uniqueness of the child guide our work,'' precisely describes New Zealand schools' spirit of ''no blanket teaching'' and practice of ''leaner-centered instruction.'' With the assistance of the third author, the first two authors, along with ten student-teachers entered an Auckland public primary school of middle-to-low socioeconomic status to observe classroom teaching from August 13^(th) to 31^(st), 2018. During this period, the first two authors entered a grade-3/4 mixed-age classroom, of which the third author was the homeroom teacher, to observe all reading, writing, and oral presentation instructions and attended a school-based writing instruction workshop for grades 1 and 2 teachers. Many learner-centered instruction approaches were observed, such as individualized assessment. In this research, the authors concluded, by scrutinizing Taiwan's primary education context and making two recommendations. First, as school teachers were supported by the learning assessment principles of the 12-year basic education Mandarin curriculum guidelines, they have to conduct differentiated assessments and collect individual students' learning processes in order to further assist their differentiated instructions. Secondly, school teachers might construct multiple scaffoldings in accordance with dimensions of language education to respond to students' individual differences and to help students' development so they could support well a learner-centered instruction in their classroom. |