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The major purpose of this study was to explore the necessity of teachers¡¦ career ladder system,
implementation strategies, and the support expressed by elementary and secondary teachers, through the
ways of location of career developmental needs of teachers, the designation of career ladder framework, and
the identification of extent of support for the system among teachers. Furthermore, the study intended to find
out the feasibility of implementing career ladder system in Taiwan. The study, based upon the researcher¡¦s
motivation to do the study and the result of documentary review, designed a questionnaire of issues relating
to the teachers¡¦ career ladder system to locate the different responses to the related issues from teachers.
There were 1773 responses returned, and the responses were analyzed through the methods of distribution,
percentage, t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Pearson¡¦s Product-Moment correlations. The findings from the
survey were discussed in detail by means of a seminar, composed of relative experts, scholars, educational
administrators, accountants, personnel managers from the government. The final conclusions were reach
through the combination of these two steps of study and some suggestions have been provided. The
conclusions of this study were as follows: I. All in all, elementary and secondary teachers expressed ¡¥agree
to some extent¡¦ towards the following statements: 1. teachers¡¦ salaries determined by the years and
degrees of teachers should be reformed, 2. teachers¡¦ in-service education and training should be reformed
to enhance the professional growth and development of teachers, 3. a career-ladder system totally designed
for instruction route should be set up to promote teachers¡¦ motivation for professional development. II. A
tentative model of career ladder system for elementary and secondary teachers has been provided as Figure
21. III. Most elementary and secondary teachers ¡¥agreed to some extent¡¦ at the career ladder system for
teachers. This finding implied that teachers held some questions about the effectiveness of the career ladder
system. In other words, teachers also expressed positive attitudes towards the ladder system. Based upon the
conclusions, the study provided the following suggestions: I. Suggestions for the education authorities 1. To
understand the difficulties and needs of career development among teachers. 2. To implement the system, the
authorities should hold numerous seminars, public hearings, debates, and conferences to collect opinions and
ideas concerning the system. 3. To plan and design the in-service educational system for teachers, two
dimensions of considerations: quantitative and qualitative, should be taken into account. 4. The career ladder
system should be put in practice starting from schools with 25-48 classes. 5. The career ladder system should
be implemented with the characteristics of ¡¥tenure¡¦ system. II. Suggestions for school administrators 1.
To adopt measures to encourage talented teachers join the career ladder system in order to tackle a variety of
problems in the education fields, to lift the quality of teachings. 2. To implement the professional evaluation
of school teachers periodically to maintain the quality of teaching among teachers who choose not to join the
career ladder system. 3. To set up an hot line for professional advise and appeal in order to provide any help
relating to the system. III. Suggestions for teacher educators 1. To place the emphases on the pre-service
stage and in-service stage of education to prepare well-round teachers. 2. The process of teacher education
should emphasize the importance of creative instructional methods. 3. The idea and concepts of ¡¥teacher
evaluation¡¦ should be introduced during the process of teacher education. IV. Suggestions for elementary
and secondary teachers 1. Teachers should have a plausible plan for career development to stimulate
professional growth and development and maintain a certain level of motivation for teaching. 2. Teachers
should place emphases on their performance of instruction in order to live to the plural criteria of teacher
evaluation. V. Suggestions for further study The tentative model of teachers¡¦ career ladder system deserves
further discussion and empirical study to test its feasibility in the case of Taiwan.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0809100-152512 |
| Date | 09 August 2000 |
| Creators | Shan, Chang-Ying |
| Contributors | none, none, none |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0809100-152512 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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