Center for Teacher Education

The passage of the Teacher Education Law in 1994 paved the way for a     diversification of teacher-training channels, and in January 1996, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) founded its Center for Teacher Education (CTE).

Our mission at the CTE is to provide a comprehensive learning environment to future teachers, including those in junior and senior high schools as well as those at vocational schools. CTE students need to finish twenty-six credit hours to fulfill both requirements and electives before taking a half year of practical training. Once certified by the Ministry of Education, the CTE students will be qualified for teaching in the secondary-school educational system.

To provide our students with professional pre-service training, the CTE retains a staff whose expertise ranges from philosophy of education, sociology of education, and educational psychology to science education, curriculum and teaching, and testing and evaluation. The CTE’s course structure is designed specifically to maximize the strengths of NCTU and to meet the needs of the community. Thus, apart from the three categories of required courses (foundation courses, methodology courses, and practice-teaching courses), the CTE puts special emphasis on science education and educational technology so as to make the best use of NCTU’s outstanding resources in science and technology and to keep abreast of recent developments in information-communication technology and media.

In order to facilitate our students’ regular coursework and teaching practices, the CTE has entered into agreements with thirty secondary schools in the Hsinchu area. While providing our students with indispensable training grounds for practice teaching that partly fulfills the students’ pre-service training, these contracted schools reciprocally receive from the CTE much assistance in in-service training as part of a concerted effort to improve secondary education in Taiwan.

In both 1996 and 1997, the Ministry of Education ranked our center as Taiwan’s top teacher-education program. We have maintained this tradition of excellence in the intervening years, and CTE alumni are now serving with distinction in middle and high schools throughout Taiwan.