The Teacher's Education Center operates the re-education programs for the teachers who will work in the coming 21st-century education environments. However, it's been found that the programs are rather far from realistic needs for teachers in field. C...
The Teacher's Education Center operates the re-education programs for the teachers who will work in the coming 21st-century education environments. However, it's been found that the programs are rather far from realistic needs for teachers in field. Curriculum, teaching methodologies, evaluation methods, learning environment are not proper enough for the real education world which teachers do and will face. For example, curriculums for junior high or high school physical education are practiced without logical cohesiveness among related institutes such as schools, the ministry of education, and the Teacher's Education Center. We need logically integrated curriculum for physical education more urgently than ever before at this point.
Our modern society wishes to have teachers who ceaselessly try to better themselves. To improve their education, those teachers should perform both theoretical and practical researches. The Teacher's Education Center should be the helping institute for the teachers who try to better their education theocratically and practically. In order to do this, the curriculum in the center should be made with the deep concern about the situation of on-going physical education in school and school's educational environments.
Teacher's re-education program is supposed to be the experience-sharing ground through examining and assessing each teacher's experience and knowledge rather than the simple knowledge-delivering arena. The curriculum in the program should provide teachers opportunities that they can deeply think about necessary qualifications to be better teachers. Through the experience-sharing program, teachers suppose to learn what they used to know might be wrong.
Since 1998, the re-education programs have not been an obligation for teachers to take without choice. Teachers can enroll the program with their own necessity. However, since teachers, who participate in the programs, get some advantages in their promotion and pay rate, institutions operating those programs should feel full responsibility about high-quality curriculum and management. Those institutions must put their strong concern on the high-quality lectures by inviting excellent instructors. They also try to optimize the efficiency of education with adopting various "unconventional" teaching methodologies such as participation-oriented classes, discussion classes, presentation classes, project-oriented classes, field studies, seminar classes, case studies, cyber classes, and multimedia-oriented classes.
In the Teacher's Education Center, the hopeful curriculum for the junior high and high school physical education should include following needs: field-oriented practical curriculum, multimedia-oriented curriculum for ever changing era of technology, curriculum responding to the recent research perspectives, curriculum for the 7th curriculum, curriculum for local characteristics, curriculum for cyber education, and fair evaluation process.
The future society will be more information-oriented and internationalized in order to fulfil various requests from individuals. The education for the future society should focus on the life-time education where people can be re-educated at any time they want for rapidly changing technological environments. Teachers' qualifications for the future society should include both the theoretical knowledge at expert level and the capability of practical performance. The Teacher's Education Center has to focus on cultivating those two elements through its well-balanced curriculum between theory and practice.