To pursue a high-quality education in the 21st century, our nation starts to execute the 9-year continuity education courses officially from the year 2001. To achieve smooth transition in course changes, the Ministry of Education is arranging new high school courses which will be executed officially from the year 2005, among which the former Military nursery course will be renamed as “Health and Nursery”, and is classified as a required course for both male and female students. The new courses will mainly aim at making a smooth transition from the 9-year continuity education and also match the global health education trend. The advantages and disadvantages of research and development of new courses are being discussed for finding references for making new courses. This research focuses on making evaluation toward on the nursery courses of military training which have been adopted for nearly 40 years, and the evaluation contents include such 4 items as “Course contents”, “Teaching methods”, “Teaching resources”, and “Teaching evaluation”. The research methods include the opinions from the female students in high school and Senior vocation high school, students’ parents and nursery teachers. We also interview the experts involving in the course development of “Health and Nursery” which will be adopted in the future. Feasible opinions and advices for the new course development are digested from the results of questionnaires. All the information mentioned above are collected and then combined into some proper suggestions for providing references in the course development of “Health and Nursery” in the future.
The conclusions of this dissertation are listed as follows:
1. In the field of “Course contents”: The high schools’ and Senior high schools’ female students, and parents and nursery teachers all recognize that the most necessary topics are “2-gendered relationship”, “cardiopulmonary resuscitation”, “Teenagers’ mental and physical development”, and “Health Promotion concepts”. Those topics are assumed by the experts being able to make a smooth transition between the present course contents and the following 9-year continuity education’s health courses. Those topics can provide reference for deciding teaching hours of new courses.
2. In “Teaching methods”: High schools’ and Senior vocation high schools’female students and parents, and nursery teachers all agree that themost beneficial teaching methods are “team discussion”,“skill demonstration”Ⅴand “brainstorming” etc. Experts also agree that thoseteaching methods agree with the teaching philosophy of the course of “Health and nursery” which will be adopted in the future.
3. In “Teaching resources”: High schools’ and Senior vocation high schools’ female students and parents, and nursery teachers all agree thatabundant teaching resources are “video tapes”, “multi media audio and video contents”. Experts also agree that the application of thoseresources can enrich the teaching contents of “Health and nursery” courses will be adopted in the future.
4. In “Teaching evaluation”: High schools’ and Senior vocation high schools’ female students and parents, and nursery teachers all agree that the most beneficial teaching evaluations are “Class involvement and performance”,“technique test”,“Team cooperation’s learning achievement expression”. Experts also agree that those evaluation methodologies can be combined into the courses of “Health and Nursery” which will be adopted in the future.
5. Current nursery teachers show implementation of nursery course ,several factors make the teaching nonfluency. The first three difficult points such as teaching hours not enough, shortage of in service learning resource, insufficiency of the teaching media.
6. With the combination and compilation of the information mentioned above, this research submits 4 substantial suggestions toward the fields of“Teachingcontents”, “Teaching methods”, “Teaching resources” and “Teaching evaluation” to provide some references for the development and execution of “Health and Nursery” courses of high schools and Senior vocational high schools in the future:
(1)“Course contents”: It is suggested that the futuristic courses designers involving in the “Health and Nursery” courses shall take priorities of importance of course content into consideration and make efficient arrangement of teaching hours and the enhancement of contents to meet the students’ requirements.
(2)“Teaching methods”: According to the results of this research, it is suggested that when the cultivation of teachers of “Health and nursery” is being planned in the future, the teaching skill of cultivated teachers shall be also enhanced to meet the students’ demands.
(3)“Teaching resource”: The results of this research indicate that among all teaching resources, video tapes and multi media audio and video teachingⅥmaterials can enrich the teaching contents the most. It is advised that theresearch and
development of audio and video teaching materials shall be enhanced when the teachers’ cultivation is being developed for enriching teaching contents.
(4)“Teaching evaluation”: The results of this research indicate that traditional paper-form examination can’t evaluate students’ learning performance correctly. It is advised that the futuristic courses shall meet teaching goals when used with multi ways simultaneously.
