Interviews and Questionnaires

After half a year of brainstorming since 2020, the JDM R&D team settled on the effective strategy of “refining teachers’ questioning” and has continued to conduct the “Prospective Lecturer Training Workshops” since then, which are divided into two types of prospective lecturer training workshops, the 2020 Literacy Foundation Package and the 21st Century Literacy Module Package, according to the four cores of the Literacy Package, using the teaching videos and their verbatim scripts as materials. The workshop is designed according to the four core principles of the literacy package, to refine the questions for teacher intervention, and to smoothly guide the students’ literacy performance. The purpose of the workshop is to train more co-presenters for the module to facilitate the promotion of mathematics literacy teaching and to produce a future co-presentation manual that can be used. This questionnaire will also help the Mathematics Education Center and the mathematics education community to understand the benefits of the workshop to the teachers in the field, and to analyze the results of the questionnaire in order to reform the content of the training courses and to enhance the literacy teaching skills of the participating teachers more effectively.

For example, the following is an analysis of some of the feedback questionnaires from the recent 21st Century Prospective Lecturer Training Workshop. The first part of the questionnaire investigated the participating teachers’ awareness and motivation of literacy teaching before the workshop; the second part of the questionnaire asked the participating teachers about their opinions and study status regarding the workshop content; the third part of the questionnaire observed whether the teachers were willing to apply and integrate literacy teaching into their own teaching after the workshop. From the full score of 5, we can see that the prospective instructors have a very positive opinion of the training workshop.