Schools, Vocational High Schools and Communities in Taiwan

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Schools, Vocational High Schools and Communities
in Taiwan
The Current Status of National Cooperative
Project for Senior High
Daniel ChenDar-Chin Rau, Ph.D.
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Introduction

• 1.The aim of the National Cooperative Project
  (NCP) in Taiwan is for youth education.

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Introduction

• 2.The NCP allows the students to participate in
  a variety of learning environments.

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Introduction

• 3.The Ministry of Education in Taiwan has
  invested huge amount of manpower and money in NCP
  since the year 2001.

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Introduction

• 4.The NCP provides excellent integrated
  curriculum, in-service workshops and support
  service.

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Introduction

• 5.The NCP is with four dimensions when the
  educators carry out such a project

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Introduction

• 6. All the schools participate to the following
  three key factors in their partnership.

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Research Background

• 1. Ministry of Education in Taiwan launched NCP
  in the year of 2001.

? In 2002, NT 1,400,000,000 dollars (US
44,728,434 dollars) was spent on establishing 66
study groups.
? In 2003, NT 1,200,000,000 dollars (US
38,338,658 dollars) was spent on establishing 45
communities.
? In 2004, NT 670,000,000 dollars (US
22,364,217 dollars) was spent on subsidizing
communities.
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Research Background
122 schools joined area curriculum cooperative
plans
93 schools joined 22 cooperative plans
NCP 2001
133 schools joined the teaching equipment
improving plans
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Research Background
NCP 2002
Initiating new Six-Year Cooperative Project
Established66 learning groups
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Research Background
NCP 2003
Starting Six-Year Cooperative Project
Established 45 learning communities
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Research Background

• NCP 2004 subsidizing communities

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Research Questions
After three years of running NCP, the
effects of this project should be examined and
analyzed to identify its performance and
effectiveness. This research proposed six key
questions to be examined.
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Research Questions
1. How many students, teachers and residents in
communities actually joined the
NCP in the 10 programs of curriculum
improvement?
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Research Questions
2. How many students, teachers and residents in
communities actually joined the NCP for student
guidance?
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Research Questions
3. How many students, teachers and residents in
communities actually joined the NCP for enhancing
interactions between schools and communities?
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Research Questions
4. How many students of the drop-outs, the
withdrawals and the transferred youths in 2003
and 2004 respectively?
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Research Questions
5. How many graduated students of senior high
schools and vocational high schools had neither
enrolled in further education nor had any jobs in
2003 and 2004 respectively?
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Research Questions
6. How many the 10th grade students of the
community residents had gone to the schools in
their own
communities rather than other areas in 2003 and
2004 respectively?
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Research Methods

• Literature review
• Questionnaire investigation
• Expert meeting

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Research Methods
Established a web site http//pc110.net2.ie.ntnu.e
du.tw/ie/index.php for providing the
participants to fill out the questionnaire on the
Net.
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Research Schedule and Procedures
The research schedule was from May 2004 to
December 2004. The procedures and schedule are
listed in the following.
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Research Results

• 1. How many students, teachers and residents in
  communities actually joined the NCP for
  curriculum improvement?
• There are ten different programs for curriculum
  improvement being implemented in the 45
  communities. These ten programs are as follows.

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Research Results 1
(1)Converted into comprehensive high school.
(School type changing)
(2)Differential instruction groups based on
students math and/or English abilities.
(3)School departments readjusting.
(4)Curriculum integration within relative
fields or departments.
(5)Teacher in-service education.
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Research Results 1
(6)Regional cooperative curriculum for the
partnered schools.
(7)Establishing the cooperative teaching resource
centers in each community.
(8)Developing and promoting the creative
curriculum in several programs.
(9)Promoting internet, foreign language and
culture instructions.

• (10)Promoting the curriculum of students
  community service learning.

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Research Results 1
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Research Results 1
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Research Result 2

• 2. How many students, teachers and residents in
  communities actually joined the national
  cooperative project for student guidance?
• There are nine different programs for
  students guidance implemented in the communities.
  These nine programs are as follows.

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Research Results 2
(1)Establishing the inter-schools cooperative
guidance mechanism for students.
(2)Establishing the cooperative guidance
mechanism with the institutions in the community.
(3)Establishing the assessment mechanism and
learning system for the gifted and handicapped
students.
(4)Implementing the cooperative teaching
evaluation, instructional research and
developing.

• (5)Cooperatively providing workshops, seminars,
  contests, and visiting activities for students.

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Research Results 2
(6) Periodically providing the best practices of
teaching or supervisional activities.
(7) Establishing the data bank and the follow-up
guidance mechanism for the students of the
drop-outs, the withdrawals and the transferred
youths.
(8)Establishing the multiple and optional
programs for the special needs and low
achievement youths.
(9)Establishing the untied service network of
youths for providing parents counseling and
other services.
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Research Results 2
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Research Results 2
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Research Result 3

• 3. How many students, teachers and residents in
  communities actually joined the national
  cooperative project for enhancing interactions
  between schools and communities?
• There are four different programs for
  enhancing the interaction between schools and
  communities. These four programs are as follows.

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Research Results 3
(1) Extensive education.
(2) Continuing education.
(3)Vocational education and skill-training
course.
(4) Students community service learning.
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Research Results 3
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Research Results 3
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Research Result 4

• 4. How many students of the drop-outs, the
  withdrawals and the transferred youths in 2003
  and 2004 respectively?
• The number of students was on the
  increase from 2003 to 2004. The increased number
  showed that more students were out of school and
  jobless, indicating that the educational function
  decreased and the social problems might increase
  in the future.

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Research Result 5

• 5. How many graduated students of senior high
  school and vocational high school had neither
  enrolled in further education nor had any jobs in
  2003 and 2004?
• The number of students had decreased by
  9,473 from 2003 to 2004. The ratio of difference
  from 2003 to 2004 was -21.59.

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Research Result 6

• 6. How many the 10th grade students of the
  community residents had the advanced study in
  their own communities in 2003 and 2004
  respectively?
• About 56.74 of the students in 10th
  grade of the community residents had received the
  advanced study in their own communities, and
  63.76 of the 10th grade students in 2004. The
  ratio of difference from 2003 to 2004 has
  increased 7.02.

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Conclusion
1. Relocating the areas of communities.

2. Enhancing the quality of senior high schools
vocational high schools.
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Conclusion
3. Strengthening the interactions between schools
and communities
4. Improving students learning environments
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Further Suggestions
1.This study suggests that the Ministry of
Education spend more money on this NCP to
establish effective infrastructures in these
distant areas, and discount the financial support
in the city areas that had been established
effective infrastructures and good learning
environments during last four years.
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Further Suggestions
2.This study suggests NCP should be extended to
all residents in the communities, and should
cooperate with the local industries within their
communities.
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Questions?