A Study of Model of Treatment for Incompetent School Teachers in Taiwan
Abstract
Lee, Hsiu-Chuan
The main purpose of the study is to formulate a treatment model for incompetent school teachers in Taiwan.
The study consists of two stages. The questionnaires used for stage one collected opinions of public school teachers, school administrators, members of teacher associations, educational administrators and parents. Nine hundred and sixty one questionnaires were collected in good condition. Chi-square and Z-test were two statistics adopted to analyze the data and to filter the contentious questions for the Delphi survey on stage two.
The Delphi questionnaires used for stage two collected opinions of
fifteen experts. These experts included school administrators, parents, educational administrators, members of teacher associations and scholars. Percentage was adopted to analyze the data and sixty percent was the threshold to reach the so-called consensus.
The study has come to the following conclusions¡G
1. As for the dimension of so-called clear incompetent teachers, ¡§A teacher violates the criminal law and is sentenced by the court¡¨ can be a definition. As for the unclear incompetent teachers dimension, ¡§A teacher is diagnosed with mental illness by doctors and performs his duty badly¡¨ and ¡§A teacher is misbehavior¡¨ can be the definitions.
2.The educational authorities should not list the specific events of incompetent teaching as the criteria.
3. The procedure of treating incompetent teachers can be divided into four stages of two phases.
(1)The school phase¡G
(A)The sensory stage¡G(a)The complaint letter must be signed and describe incidents objectively. (b)The statutory members of the investigation squad are the principal, directors, parents and the members of the Committee of Teacher Selection and Evaluation (CTSE). (c)They should collect the principal¡¦s comments, director¡¦s comments, comments from the colleagues, parent¡¦s comments, student¡¦s comments, teacher¡¦s self-report, medical records and supervisor¡¦s comments. (d)The investigation must be summed up within a month. The investigation squad should notify the teacher of the investigation results in the teacher¡¦s presence. If the teacher refused to sign to receive the results, a law letter should be sent to the teacher.
(B)The assistance stage¡G(a)The statutory members of the assistance squad are school¡¦s section directors and teachers. (b)Teachers misbehaved slightly will go into the assistance stage, while teachers misbehaved badly will enter the resolution stage. Teachers keep on teaching in class during the assistance stage. (c)If facts showed the teacher¡¦s mental illness and worked badly or undoubtedly, the CTSE should recommend him seeking diagnose or remedy from doctors within two weeks. If he or she did not obey, the school should force him or her to the hospital. If he or she did not obey still, the school should dismiss or ask him or her to retire. (d)The teacher should stop working while receiving the medication. The period for remedy must be less than two years.
(C)The resolution stage¡G(a) The members of the CTSE should include people who are considered social justice representatives. (b)The Ministry of Education should not reduce the sum of signature to convene the meeting but can reduce required number of members to convene the meeting for the third time. (c)When the CTSE reviews the case, the teacher is entitled to be present to explain. The notification with related information should be sent to the teacher seven days before. (d)If the CTSE decided to dismiss the teacher, then the decision needed the authorization of Ed Bureau. Before authorizing the dismiss that accused the teacher for violating the criminal law, misbehaving badly and being mentally ill, the school was entitled to order the teacher to stop teaching in class. (e)If the CTSE did not manage the case of so-called incompetent teachers, the Ed Bureau would demand the school to handle it within two weeks. If the school did not act, the Ed Bureau had the power to organize a team to handle it and demanded the CTSE to operate afterward.
(2)The educational authority phase¡G
The review stage¡G(a)The members of the reviewing squad of the Ed Bureau are the representatives of local teacher association, principals of other schools, the local PTA representatives, educational scholars, jurisconsults, the Ed Bureau representatives and psychiatrists. (b)The teacher should be notified to attend the meeting and to explain. The notification letter should be sent to the teacher seven days before.
Finally, several suggestions were raised to the educational authorities
and future researchers.
Keywords¡Gschool teachers, incompetent teachers, treatment model
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0622104-213051 |
| Date | 22 June 2004 |
| Creators | Lee, Hsiu-Chuan |
| Contributors | Ching-Shan Wu, Ching-Hwa Tsai, Zheng-Chang Chen |
| 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-0622104-213051 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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