The resarch on the teaching of Information Literacy--Example:An integrating the Big6 Teaching Approaches into the Instruction of the three Principles in Senior high Schools
| Autor: | YUEH LI--JUNG, 岳立容 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 92 The goal of this action research is to study the practice of integrating the Big6 Teaching Approaches into the instruction of the Three Principles of the People in senior high schools. Being enforced in the freshmen of a certain senior high school in Taipei County, this practice -- both instructors and students follow the guide-lines of the Big6 Teaching Approaches, which contains nine units in a whole. Following a semester-round experimental curriculum, accordingly, instructors and students are required to do paper-writing and curriculum-assessing on the basis of the Big6 Teaching Approaches. The education of information literacy is founded on the theories of teaching with critical thinking, cooperative learning, self-directed learning, constructive learning and independent learning. Also, from the perspectives of instructors and students, this study is to have an insight of the instruction itself as well as its effects, and further to suggest the problems needed to be attended to while the practice is proceeding. The procedure for the study includes the following points: the design of action research, such as the design of unit based and instruction-related activity, and feedback list. Furthermore, instructors should attend, observe, interview, fill up forms and keep records of the on-coming problems, while such an experimental curriculum is being proceeded. Finally, in assessing the effects of this curriculum as a whole, instructors’and students’assessment do play a key role. According to the various records following the action research such as the design of instruction-related activities, feedback lists, interviewing records, and various assessments. The results have been found as follows: (A) To assure the effect of this curriculum, instructors need to have a good grip on their professional expertise and subject-related knowledge, such as the awareness of political and economical issues, as well as the philosophy and know-how of the Big6 Teaching Approaches, which contain the abilities of designing teaching plans, making teaching material,collecting information,processing words, and taking notes.In addition, instructors have to devote themselves and instruct with enthusiasm. (B) In terms of the students’ learning process, it is a developing one, which started with a situation of fuzziness and then shaped into a clear concept. (C) The advantages of such a practice are many, instructors can be aware that the Big6 Teaching Approaches are systematic. Also students can polish their thinking styles. (D) On both sides of instructors and students, they may encounter the difficulties like the deficiency of equipment and material, or even low motivation of students.Based on the above,the research provides the main principles when implementing the Big6 Teaching Approaches and other suggestions concerning curriculum designs, the support needed from the school administration and the appropriate teaching environments, and so on.Here the researchers offer instructors the direction of applying the Big6 Teaching Approaches to diverse subjects and students, and hope that the department of curriculum design and administration can take it into account to enlarge the range or prolong the period of the research on the Big6 Teaching Approaches . |
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