DocumentCode :
530356
Title :
Promoting elementary school teachers´ professional development by e-teacher community competition
Author :
Lin, Ching-Dar ; Lin, Min-Jin
Author_Institution :
Grad. Inst. of Educ., Tzu-Chi Univ., Hualien, Taiwan
Volume :
1
fYear :
2010
fDate :
17-19 Sept. 2010
Abstract :
The Educational Bureau of Hualien County (abbreviated as EBHC) in the eastern part of Taiwan plays important roles in promoting school teachers´ professional development by holding an “e-teacher community competition” (abbreviated as ETCC) since February 2008. The participants not only designed and implemented a theme-based course, but also presented the processes and their final products over a unique web-site assigned to each e-teacher team. All final products of the participating e-teacher teams can be accessed from the EBHC platform (http://teacher.hlc.edu.tw/index.asp?m=Welcome!) that served as scaffolding for other school teachers in the local county as references of course design and collaborative teaching. The educational administration of EBHC played important roles in setting up rules and regulations of ETCC, inviting university professors to serve as curriculum and information technology (abbreviated as IT) expert consultants to revise the rules and to evaluate the performance of the participating teams after they finished the final products. EBHC also provided attractive and useful rewards for the winning teams. The outcomes showed that the participating teachers had better communication among the team members, and they cooperatively accomplished an on-line theme-based course and implemented in the classroom and outdoors teaching. Teachers´ professional development included the growth in the content knowledge, capabilities of course-design, IT application and collaborative teaching. The ETCC may serve as a new teacher training model for the educational administration agencies.
Keywords :
Web sites; computer aided instruction; educational courses; educational institutions; groupware; professional aspects; teacher training; teaching; collaborative teaching; course design; curriculum expert consultant; e-teacher community competition; educational administration; educational bureau of Hualien County; information technology expert consultant; online theme based course; school teacher professional development; teacher training model; website; Education; Lead; educational administration; on-line teacher community competition; teacher professional development;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Educational and Information Technology (ICEIT), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chongqing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8033-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8035-7
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICEIT.2010.5607770
Filename :
5607770
Link To Document :
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