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The chief purpose of this study is to investigate what the current status and the meanings of the pre-service elementary student teachers'' beliefs are and how background and gender as variables influence student teachers'' teaching beliefs. Eighty three subjects randomly recruited from seniors, graduates, and students of Prospective Teachers Training Program(PTTP) at National Tainan Teachers'' College and National Pingtung Teachers'' College were involved in this study. Each subject had to complete a Teaching Beliefs Inventory (TBI) for Pre-service student teachers, and had to do a Kelly Repetory Grid semi-structure interview. Data collected from the TBI were treated by SPSS for Window . One-way ANOVA was used to analyze the background variable influenced student teachers'' teaching beliefs. The t-test was used to analyze how gender as a variable influenced student teachers'' teaching beliefs. Data collected from the interviews were analyzed by Content Analysis to see what constituted student teachers'' teaching beliefs. The major findings were summarized as follow: 1. Student teachers of different backgrounds show no differences in their beliefs in "Teaching Method" and "Teaching Content".PTTP Student, however, have significant difference beliefs in "Teacher-student Relationship" from students of graduate school. Ⅱ.Male and female student teachers show no differences in their beliefs in "Teacher-student Relationship", "Teaching Method," and "Teaching Content". Ⅲ.The meanings of teaching beliefs are as follows: 1.Teaching beliefs in Teacher-student Relationship have more to do with the other tecahers, students, teacher-student interaction, and student teachers themselves. 2. Teaching beliefs is Teaching Method have more to do with teaching aids and teaching skills. 3. Teaching beliefs in Teaching Content have more to do with designed curriculum, life experience, adjunct learning and test orientation. Generally speaking, pre-service student teachers are paying more attention in their teaching to teacher-student interaction, especially, what kind os role a student teacher play has great influence upon teacher-student interaction. Based on the results of this study, suggestions are proposed for teachers training progrom, student teacher'' self-examination, and further study.
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