The Purpose of this study is to overview and analyze the current states of teacher
training courses of 18 comprehensive education training institutes for the last 3 years from
2014 to 2016 in order to provide the direction of improvement of teacher development.
These comprehensive education training institutes, which belong to 18 municipal education
offices, are in charge of in-service training teachers. The analysis shows that the number of
teacher training courses is steadily growing every year, despite the current trend of
expanding distance education training and customized training.
In terms of training category, job performance training occupies the biggest percentage,
and in terms of training participants, courses for primary and secondary school teachers are
most often being operated. When analyzed the percentage of participants versus the total
population, managers and chief teachers are participating more often than the ordinary
teachers. Role-performing training course ranks the highest in terms of the training topic.
One interesting fact is that the proportion of the training for teaching and learning is
decreasing despite the total trainig courses are increasing.
This study tries to provide some insights on teacher training courses based on the
analysis. First, the 18 comprehensive education institutes need to draw up plans for
encouraging teachers participation. Second, each comprehensive institutes need to make
efforts to narrow the gap between each institutes based on the qualitative analysis on the
causes to make the differences. Third, the support from the central government is need to
help each comprehensive education institute to compare and analyze their own training
practices with other institues and to self-evaluate and seek to improve their practices.