The comprehensive high school is one of the tremendous reforms in the post-secondary education of our country to withstand the shift of times. The Ministry of Education adopted the suggestions from the seventh meeting of National Education and started to work intensively on the experimental curriculum of the comprehensive high school in 1996. Therefore, take National Lungtan vocational senior high school as an example to explore this kind of transformation of the formal education system. The aim of this study was to take Lungtan vocational senior high school as an example, and used action research to investigate the process of performing the transform of the comprehensive high school, to find out the difficulties and problems, and to solve its related problems. The findings are as follows:
After the comprehensive high school has become one of the formal education systems, for the case of National Lungtan Vocational Senior High School of transforming to the comprehensive high school, this really corresponds with the mainstreams of education. The suitable and best transforming model is for the case of National Lungtan Vocational Senior High School: Under negotiating in advance and getting the common consensus with the faculty in a formal meeting, there are some valuable experiences we got, as follows:
(1)The difficulties and policies of curriculum design:
(a) The change of teaching hours and the problems of arranging the curricula¡Xto make the teachers who teach the vocational programs instruct the related subjects in order to meet the basic requirements.
(b) According to the arrangement of the programs, it is necessary to divide the students into some groups so that it will meet the needs of students, parents, and the school.
(2)The problems and solutions for the faculty:
(a)Performing the plan of retirement will solve some problems of the faculty.
(b)No sufficient teachers are in the academic subjects. To solve this problem, it is efficient to make use of resources around the school-community or hire more teachers from other schools.
(c) It is important to solve the surplus for the teachers of professional and vocational subjects. For example, it will work out to make the teachers have advanced studies.
(3)The plan and the way to handle the equipment:
(a) Because there are no enough facilities to offer the current needs, increasing some professional classrooms reduces the deficiency.
(b) The limitations of funds for operation. Thus, presenting a series of improving plans solves the insufficient problems.
(c) Actively engaging in the related affairs or plans to get the funds and then to improve the equipment.
According to the conclusions, there are some suggestions as follows:
A. The strategies of transforming model for the case of National Lungtan Vocational Senior High School can provide some references for both the public and private high schools implementing the comprehensive high school.
(1) The conductor¡¦s leading style (especially the principal) will be the key to success in implementing the transforming model.
(2) How to transform is a crucial question so it is necessary to have a complete discussions and arrangement before making decisions.
(3) With the suitable transforming model, it will reduce the number of the opposite teachers.
(4) The suitable and best transforming model for the case of National Lungtan Vocational Senior High School will be more competitive among schools.
(5) It is better to tend to the direction of community-united comprehensive high school.
B. How to continue to impel the project of comprehensive high school for the case of National Lungtan Vocational Senior High School in the future.
(1) For those performing the comprehensive schools, it is essential to get funds for operation in order to enlarge staff¡¦s allocation.
(2) Schools should offer many opportunities of selecting classes and then students will have more room for developing their potential ability. Above all, it is better to adopt the middle curriculum.
(3) Continue to advocate the ideas to parents and junior high school students. Meanwhile, pay attention to the evaluation for the performing process, and chase the common prospect.
(4) Remain to explore the adjusting situation after graduating from the comprehensive high schools entering University.
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0827103-112350 |
Date | 27 August 2003 |
Creators | Liou, Jau-Yi |
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-0827103-112350 |
Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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