Responses to Existing Situation of Class Meetings at MCU Fanny Lin 96420944 Coco Tsai 96420652 Ting Yang 96420222 Lily Hsu 96420244   Advisor: Dr. Lilian Cheng Ming Chuan University Representative of Student Association

Presentation Outline INTRODUCTION METHODOLOGY Results and Discussion CONCLUSION REFERENCES

INTRODUCTION Background and Motivation Purpose of the Study Research Questions

Background and Motivation Aim: spirits of honesty, sincereness, respect, and patient learn the skills of talking with one another productively reaching collective long-term and short-term goals solve the class problems with democracy Function: announce the policies or regulations of school timely enhance the interaction between teachers and students Current situation: occupies students’ learning time

Purpose of the Study To exam the defects To clarify the rules Can be diversified and organized to make it more meaningful Attendance of class meeting will be raised up

Research Questions This research aims to explore the following research questions: 1. Do the class officers give service to classmates? 2. Does the homeroom teacher give students guidance in class meeting?

Research Questions 3. How to improve the attendance of class meeting? 4. How to diversify the class meeting and make it more meaningful? 5. Does each school make the effective implementation of class meeting?

METHODOOGY Research Design Research Participants Instruments Data Collection Procedures

Research Design To better understand the existing situations of class meetings at Ming Chuan University: to investigate the existing situations and problems participants’ perceptions needs for further improvement The questionnaires were completed by college students from 6 universities in northern Taiwan.

Research Participants 6 college schools including 300 college students (50 students from each school) were from northern part of Taiwan’s universities: Chinese Culture University Shih Hsin University Fu Jen Catholic University Taipei Medical University National Taipei University of Education Ming Chuan University Randomly chose from 6 different academic major division of the university.

Research Participants return rate :88 % possessed 264 valid questionnaires for data analysis

Instruments A questionnaire consists of four major types of items investigating: (1) the existing situations and problems they encountered in class meetings (2) participants’ perceptions of class meetings (3) their needs for further improvement in class meetings (4) open-ended question

Data Collection Procedures Decide the way of the study Choose 300 students Collect opinions from students

Data Collection Procedures Investigate other University’s class meeting and compare with MCU’s The information of study had been collected, analyzed and compared The results of study

Results and Discussion The results from the data collection and data analyses presented in this chapter indicates the following sections: (a) participants’ perceptions of class meetings; (b) the performances of class cadres’ responsibilities within class meetings; (c) the understandings of students’ counseling guided by teachers including daily life, career, and schoolwork; and (d) their suggestions and expectations for improvements in the future class meetings.

Results and Discussion MCU CCU SHU FJU TMU NTUE Regulation Take attendance Free to attend Free to attend(extra points given) Frequency Once a week Once a semester Once a month Depend on the situation of class events Once two months Routine procedures 37% Yes 63% No 29% Yes 71% No 28% Yes 72% No 25% Yes 75% No 12%yes 88%no 100%No

Results and Discussion MCU CCU SHU FJU TMU NTUE Attitude for class meeting *14% for active *78% for normal *8% for cold *4% for active *35% for normal *55% for cold *6% for other *12%for active *69% for normal *14% for cold *5% for other *2%for active *29% for cold *64% for normal *24% for cold *50% for normal *48% for cold Advantages *Higher attendance *Clear agenda *Higher coherence *Better for announcements delivered *Flexible for class meetings *More time for doing other things

Results and Discussion MCU CCU SHU FJU TMU NTUE Weaknesses *Too much time on class meetings *Bored after the end of routine procedures *Lower attendance *Passive to care for the class events *Vague agenda *Lower coherence

Figure 1 Participants’ Perceptions of Class Meetings

Figure2 Performances of Class Cadres’ Responsibilities within Class Meetings

Figure 3 Understandings of Students’ Counseling Guided by Teachers

How often do you think the class meeting should be held?

Class meetings should be held with regular procedure.

Who is better to guide the execution of class meeting?

After finish the regular procedure of class meeting, what kind of activities would you like to take?

Regulations of class meeting open-ended questions Regulations of class meeting 1. MCU: implement the compulsory regulation of attendance SHU: extra points or other benefits such as beverages or dessert given Others schools: no specific rule

Problems during the proceeding of class meeting open-ended questions Problems during the proceeding of class meeting 2. the attendance and participation is low low effectiveness being used to instruct other subjects is not accepted few clear regulations or specific topics time and place is not appropriate class affairs can‘t be delivered effectively

Students’ perception of delivering their affairs open-ended questions Students’ perception of delivering their affairs 3. students’ affairs can be delivered to the college departments through their teachers can‘t get the proper reaction from departments timely and quickly

CONCLUSION 1. Attendance system should keep existing Students must attend without exceptions More meaningful and coherent

CONCLUSION 2. Class meeting is not sufficient Attendance and participation of class meeting are low Class meeting is not sufficient Class affairs do not deliver effectiveness

CONCLUSION 3. Students’ problems or difficulties: should tell home room teacher in advance inquire for home room teacher’s recommendation and help If home room teacher can not solve the problem or convey effective help, the teacher should deliver to department class leader

Recommendation Limited resources and time, Only 6 colleges in northern Taiwan can be selected randomly. Not enough to research the situation of class meetings. Hope the later researchers will try to expand the range of researchers in order to obtain more and better experiences from other schools for improvement, and thus, the regulations of class meetings will be more definite and clear.

REFERENCES Styles, D. (2001). Class meetings: Building leadership, problem-solving and decision-making skills in the respectful classroom. Stenhouse Publishers. Dettelbach, J. (none). Bridgette: The power of class meetings. Class Meetings. Retrieved May 15, 2010 from http://www.sd83.bc.ca/classmtg/classindex.html Ming Chuan University (2005). Class meeting regulations. Retrieved May 9, 2010 from http://www1.mcu.edu.tw/Apps/SB/SB_Site.aspx?PageID=60

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