英文摘要 |
Teachers are the soul of educational enterprise at all levels. Teacher quality plays impor-tant roles in determining the success or failure of education, and also, teacher perform-ance determines whether school education will prosper or dwindle. In order to be a re-sponsible qualified teacher, teachers need to learn a systematic body of knowledge. Teacher learning is an aspect especially emphasized in a book on Teacher-ship which is consisted of the following five essentials. The first part, being a teacher, tries to describe teachers’ professional life and educational aspirations. Then the second, carrying a mis-sion, aims to focus on teachers’ core value and professional demonstrations. The third, being dynamic, to elaborate teachers’ core competencies and knowledge capitals. The fourth, maintaining quality, it discusses teachers’ educational quality and accountability. Finally the fifth, varying styles, it analyses teachers’ systematic thinking and adaptive knowledge management skills. Relevant studies of teacher training are incorporated in the book on Teacher-ship, offering the following suggestions to the new teacher training policy: (1) To move the internship to a time after the qualification examines, then to con-sider making internship as part of teaching master degree credits. In addition, practicing teachers should acquire their teaching certificates in selected subject matter areas while teaching at schools. (2) To consider making teachers’ qualification examines as national examines for higher officials, treating teachers as professionals serving in official posi-tions. (3) To raise the percentage of junior high and elementary school teachers having educational degree at master degree level to above 85%. Also, to raise the proportion of qualified teachers in subject matter areas up to 80%. (4) Making Teacher-ship a course in teacher education and professional development programs. Further, courses on Educa-tional management and Principal-ship should be considered as essential courses for pro-grams aiming at preparing principals and directors. (5) To elaborate the new five ethics and their core values. It is expected that the Teacher-ship and the new teacher education policy advocated in this study would open a new era of responsible qualified teachers and responsible citizenship. |