The purpose of this study was to understand the collaborative model between university and its affiliated experimental elementary school. The author used NCATE¡¦s (National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education) PDS Standards (Professional Development School Standards) announced in 2001 in the USA to examine current collaborative models in Taiwan.
The author firstly proceeded documentary analyses to analyze related data about Professional Development Schools in the United States and interviewed subjects who have been or are being related to the topics and have rich experiences within the two university-school partnership cases. The interview questions were developed and based upon NCATE¡¦s PDS Standards. The author collected the related data through a variety of channels, such as school websites, laws and regulations, newspaper features & reports, and school documents.
The findings and results of the study are as follows:
(1) The collaborative model provides an environment which supports multiple learners through University-School partnership;
(2) The collaborative model can expand the learning group and share experience with people through University-School partnership;
(3) The majority of the University-School partnership operated are based on the laws and regulations and both sides thus display their responsibilities;
(4) The collaborative model supports teacher education interns¡¦ learning and develops the contents of teacher education program;
(5) The partnership designs the programs from multiple perspectives, assesses the effect in various ways, and provides the experiences for the interns to face different students;
(6) Due to the long history of affiliated elementary school, both sides have been taking the partnership for granted. However, the context has changed a lot recently, people got involved are concerned about the impact that might have on the partnership in the future;
(7) As for the liaison and coordination, the university should strengthen organizations¡¦ function and use the school principal, an academic department, and a network to communicate with each other;
(8) Resources sharing can promote collaboration between the university and the affiliated school.
The above results have been analyzed and discussed to provide conclusions and suggestions for the reference of the education authorities, school administration and future related studies.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0825107-161437 |
| Date | 25 August 2007 |
| Creators | Liu, Li-han |
| Contributors | Chih-lin Sun, C. Tsai, D. L. Fang |
| 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-0825107-161437 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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