英文摘要
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The study is aimed to investigate physical education teacher education and appointment system in Taiwan and Japan through comparative education. The results indicated that; 1. In Japan, a teacher certification can be achieved after completing the teacher-training program, while in Taiwan, it can only be achieved after passing a teacher examination; 2. teacher certification in Japan is categorized into three types and the validity period is limited for ten years; the certification in Taiwan, in contrast, has no classification and no expiry date; 3. teacher-recruiting process in Japan includes aptitude test and terms of beginning teachers, which acts as the first step to eliminate inappropriate candidates while passing the teacher exam in Taiwan means career-long employment; 4. The Japanese teacher-recruiting process is an examination which adds on rewarded sportsmen points, while the Taiwanese recruiting process is an examination based on the candidate's specialty, which has a lower threshold; 5. inappropriate teachers in Japan are evaluated by teaching quality; however, in Taiwan they are mainly judged by whether violate criminal law or not without evaluation of teaching quality. As mentioned above, I suggest that there are four methods which may be helpful to improve teacher education and appointment system in Taiwan: 1. setting up validation period to renew teacher certification and classifying the certification into several kinds may encourage teachers to gain higher level of certification and to come back for education; 2. adopting Japanese beginning teacher's system, one-year probation period, which may find out the characteristics of good teacher that exam and assessment cannot tell to maintain teacher quality and to filter out inappropriate one; 3. enhancing the exercise performance standard of physical education teacher which may be another channel for sportsmen with good performance to become teachers; 4. planning the system of counselling to help inappropriate teachers change their career which can both maintain the teaching quality and give more opportunities for beginning physical education teacher with enthusiasm towards education.
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