Study On the Strategies of Teachers Guiding, Disciplining and Educating Students in Vocational High Schools

• Main Authors: Ho Jeng-Long, 何政隆
• Other Authors: Kao Chiang-Hua
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2000
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/80877831331701870828

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 教育研究所 === 88 === The research is focused on the study of literature and is supported by questionnaire survey of Principals, Deans of Study, Deans of Students, Chief Guidance Teachers, Chief Military Training Officers, Conductors, Officers and Full-time Teachers, and a substantial research is also conducted by visiting the schools. The principal research tool for this research is questionnaire on “Study On The Strategy of Teachers Guiding, Disciplining and Educating Students in Vocational High Schools”. The research has following major findings through simple statistical analysis, and treatment, analysis and induction by using the programs such as SPSS, Microsoft Excel, etc.: 1. A major of administrative staffs (including Principals, Deans of Study, Deans of Students, Chief Guidance Teachers and Chief Military Training Officers) clearly know “Regulations Governing Guidance and Discipline/Educating by Teachers” and “Study, Student and Guidance Three In One Program” promulgated by the Ministry of Education but about 40% of Conductors and Full-time Teachers in vocational high schools do not clearly know them. 2. For the installation and operation of “Students Citation/Punishment Committee” and “Students Appeal Committee” in vocational high schools, administrative staffs all express as normal but more than 40% of Conductors and Full-time Teachers in vocational high schools do not know them or assume their installation and operation as abnormal. 3. The top 10 on the list of major defaults frequently committed by the vocational high school students are: a. Smoking b. Driving without license c. Dyeing hair d. Using mobile phone e. Cheating in examination f. Riding motorcycle without wearing helmet g. Missing a class h. Fighting with other student i. Buying food from outside snack stand j. Absent from important meeting without proper reason. 4. Vocational high school students will be punished when involving in major defaults, and the sequences according to the highest frequency are: a. Major demerit b. Placed under surveillance c. Guiding them to transfer d. Guiding them to suspend schooling e. Handled by Students Citation/Punishment Committee f. Notifying parents to take them back for disciplining g. Forced dismissal h. Corporal punishment i. Calling police for handling. 5. “Other Appropriate Measures” adopted by most of vocational high schools for guiding students, and the sequences according to the frequency of use are: a. Labor service b. Guided by guiding teachers c. Guided by volunteer-guiding teacher d. Meditation e. Zen practice f. Spiritual practice. 6. The sequences of main causes for major defaults committed by vocational high school students according to the opinion of teachers are: a. Making friends with neglect and affected by bad friends b. Students are lazy and irresponsible c. Parents divorced or single-parent family d. Emotion out of control suddenly e. Incorrect view of value and greedy enjoyment f. Low interest in learning and too low schooling accomplishment g. A chain smoker h. Working part time too often to make life irregular i. Parents’ lavish love upon them j. From cultural disadvantageous area k. Living in the community with complicated environment. 7. The following effective strategies may be adopted for guiding and disciplining/educating vocational high school students: The 23 strategies raised by the research are proved to win a high rate of support according to the result of research in Chapter 4, and every strategy is feasible and worth of application. The author advocate: 1) The Ministry of Education and vocational high schools should actually promote and thoroughly implement: “moral culture shall be superior to intellectual, aesthetic, physical and social cultures”, and should not overthrow the superior position of moral culture through the slogan of balanced development among moral, intellectual, physical, social and aesthetic cultures while on the contrary to single out intellectual culture and to shrink the other four cultures accordingly. 2) The administrative leadership of overall reform in school education is the new current of peak reform of the age and school leaders should be able to drive the all-range reform in relation to the administration, budget, personnel, course, teaching, humanity concern and healthy development in the character of students in school, particularly drive the reform relating to direct contact between the students and teachers in the vocational high schools so as to “educate every vocational high school student successfully”. 3) Every teacher, conductor and full-time teacher should not keep a distance from the administration and should pay concern to vocational high school students without thinking they can be independent with various respects of learning. Teachers should thoroughly know “characteristics of start-point behavior” for students to enter vocation high schools: a. For academic capacity, in the same area of public schools joint-entry, the academic capacity of the new students in vocational high schools is ranked behind that of the new students in public senior high schools, 5-year program of public junior colleges and general-vocational high schools. b. For school systems, vocational high school students are treated as “second-class students”, “inferior students”. c. For social and economic position, family level of vocational high school students is relatively low. d. The proportion of the new students with smoking habit in vocational high schools is not low. e. The proportion of the new students with the record of defaults habit in vocational high schools is not low. f. The proportion of the new students with mental tension and panic in vocational high schools is not low. g. Most of vocational high school new students have normal health. h. Vocational high school new students have a very high intent of further study after graduation. i. Vocational high school new students have a very high intent of making effort for advancement. j. It’s a big trouble for two-sex interactive attitude of vocational high school new students. It is suggested a more concern should be paid to them by substantially leading them to adjusting themselves to fit learning life in vocational high schools. Furthermore, teachers are suggested to realize, learn and employ the following strategies for increasing their professional capacity, upgrading the quality of teaching and guiding students satisfactorily: a. Continuing to increase professional knowledge and ability, reforming oneself. b. Teaching attitude based on humanity concern. c. Using learning guidance of Cognition Psychology School. d. Employing behavior changing technique of Cognition Behavior School. e. Establishing a guiding network among the teacher, parents, administrative staffs and other units. f. Substantially enhancing parental education. g. Assisting students to cultivate normal leisure and entertainment. h. Assisting students to learn how to handle their emotion. i. Assisting students to learn how to handle interrelationship. j. With guiding concept and ability. k. Thoroughly fulfilling the duty of guidance during teaching. l. Undertaking the duty of conductor. m. Participating in volunteer-guiding job. 4) Vocational high schools should have a “Studies-Students-Guidance Team” to match with Parental Meeting for integrating each relevant authority and resource in the community, such as Li Head, police station, Health Office, district/local government so as to thoroughly implement the following strategies: a. Strengthening the function of spiritual, ethic guarding by mutual help in the community. b. Establishing the younger guiding center in every community. c. Urging the public broadcasting media to exert the positive function of education. d. Urging Police Corps for Juvenile Delinquents to exert its guiding function. e. Taking advantage of camp activities such as Young Lion Camp. f. Taking advantage of the community environment for correcting juvenile delinquencies. 5) Those who intend to become a vocational high school teacher should place “Principle of Moral Culture”, “Educational Psychology”, “Class Management”, “Principle and Practice of Guidance”, “Parental Education”, “Juvenile Psychology” as their “absolutely required” courses when they study educational program, to allow them to have active “basic struggle potential” for effectively, successfully teaching, guiding, disciplining/educating students in the vocational high schools. 6) Suggest our government should increase the quotas of Full-time Guiding Teacher as “one for less than 7 classes, two for more than 11 classes (included)” or increase administrative staff as “Guidance Section should have guiding and information two offices for any vocational high schools with more than 11 classes”.