The Study on Managament of Swimming Teaching in Taipei City

[[abstract]]Curriculum governance is the Government's management measures adopted by schools. This study was conducted by curriculum governance point of view of teaching management in Taipei to promote swimming. The Taipei City Government Bureau of Education promulgated the "Taipei City Government Bureau of Education to enhance teaching at all levels of schools, enhancing students swimming ability to swim program," regarded as curriculum policy, Other series related to education policy, curriculum policies as if. To achieve the aims, the study used document analysis and interviews to collect information, summarized the findings the following conclusions: 1, Taipei swimming teaching management, investment funds of about 274 million, issued by 30 types of documents, implementation of the fruitful efforts, commendable. There are currently expected to reach 119 goals swimming pool, but the heated swimming pool maintenance and management of the huge financial burden. Academic year 97 students swimming ability test pass rate 75.9%, qualified swimming teacher ratio of 61% teaching, up to expectations, yet to improve. The curriculum-related policies, including five types: there are courses in the system on the vision and goals, curriculum documents, teaching methods and teaching time; in teaching resources, teaching materials from the pipeline and selection, student grouping and deployment of information management systems; in human resources have teacher training, lifeguard establishment, and must step down and assessment, teacher professional development; in a teaching environment environmental resources resource planning, swimming pool safety maintenance management; the results of evaluation: the learning evaluation and, depending on the evaluation guide. Related to each other, there are a lot of initiative, but not perfect, especially in the system on the most needed improvements, such as: curriculum document does not program vision, lack of cognitive and affective aspects of the curriculum objectives, lack of water safety education on the standard, no clear standard swimming class contact hours, grades and ability grouping beginners how to implement team teaching; in teaching resources, very carefully edited and published the "School Swimming Safety Management Manual", "Taipei Physical Education and Health Registry" and "You are you, I did not prevent the "special education teaching DVD, but the lack of public awareness to promote the use of a pity; human resources is the most urgent need to improve elementary school physical education full-time teachers is grossly inadequate; environmental resources," swimming pool safety maintenance checklist "content very detailed and practical proposals to extend the evaluation process. 2, Taipei City Government for the promotion of swimming teaching management flexibility in the use of the four types of course management related strategies: "Consistency" refers to cross-reference, coordinate with or enhance each other. In this study the curriculum related policies have low constistency."Prescriptiveness":"Indicative ", the" degree of detail, "a" direction is clear, full authority, "but not" more specific "can not" does comply ", which has been repeatedly modified to improve its" degree of detail. Improve the "breadth" approach such as "with the curriculum implementation, amendments to other laws," enacted "to promote civil participation in the Taipei City Sports Facilities operations management schools at all levels spent royalty points", the "other Act amendments affect the curriculum-related policies" , Sports Affairs Council issued the "Swimming Pool Management Standards", affect the ability of the lifeguard establishment and implementation of team teaching group, the Taipei City Government promulgated the "Taipei City Summer Swimming Camp 98 year implementation plan" to meet the requirements. "Authority" includes system changes or the establishment, services, administrative orders and measures the release of grant funds, knowledge and information discovery and dissemination of the charm of leadership and advice of good leadership, expertise, guidance, strict norms traditional conventions, a model of the set benchmark, observe or 11 contests, the most commonly used services, administrative orders and measures the release of funding strategies and subsidies. "Power" of almost no use, "sanctions" to "reward" in the school to the more commonly used is the "subsidy fund", "resources", "awarded medals, trophies and awards" on the students "passed the test given certificate "to the more commonly used on the educators," Syria Merits Award ", and" public recognition "and other strategies. 3, Taipei City Government Bureau of Education for the promotion of swimming teaching management difficulties and solutions in the following manner: (A) to be amplified in a short period of heated swimming pool1. The difficulties: how to amplify a short period of heated swimming pool. 2. Solution: compile special funds, first to implement the "cold-water heated pool project to change", early planning and design, through implementation of an early budget.(B) lack of practical experience, education administrators1. The difficulties: lack of practical experience, education administrators, policy introduced more unable to meet school needs.2. Solution: Organization Advisory Group meetings and information exchange through the channels, to provide some practical advice.(C) open the pool at night school exclusion policy to promote1. The difficulties: schools do not open the pool at night with the promotion of the policy.2. Solution: The reasons, utilities and start-up grant from the Bureau of Education.(D) No swimming schools have a swimming lesson1. The difficulties: the need to allow students in schools without swimming pools can be a swimming lesson.2. Solution: implementation of the policy of resource sharing pool, pool resources and share benefits and transportation costs of the pilot part-time weekend swim camp fees, transportation fees, expenses.（E) implementation of the "pool resources and share the" traffic problem1. The difficulties: no swimming schools have to deal with traffic problems in a swimming lesson.2. Solutions: unified by the Bureau of Education to intervene with the industry to set the opening and contract hire car traffic transportation subsidies.(F) insurance is too expensive1. The difficulties: individual schools to the high insurance premiums.2. Solution: come forward by the Education Bureau with insurance companies throughout the negotiation, set the so-called open contracts. Such as summer camp swimming pool accident insurance and public liability accidents are handled this way. Keywords: Curriculum governance, Curriculum related policies, Course Management Strategies, Swimming Teaching