Introduction

        National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) established the Secondary School Teacher Education Program in 1995. Later, the Teacher Education Center was founded to oversee the program, with the mission of cultivating outstanding secondary school teachers equipped with rich pedagogical knowledge and a passion for education. Each year, ninety students from various departments and graduate institutes are admitted to receive a comprehensive and high-quality teacher training curriculum. Upon completion, they are eligible to pass the Secondary School Teacher Qualification Examination and serve as qualified teachers in junior high schools, senior high schools, and vocational high schools.

        The program requires students to complete 26 credits of professional education courses and a six-month full-time internship. The curriculum offers a wide range of compulsory and elective courses, including Educational Psychology, Introduction to Education, Curriculum Development and Design, Principles and Practice of Guidance, Educational Testing and Evaluation, Instructional Materials and Methods, Instructional Media, Educational Laws and Regulations, Sociology of Education, Developmental Psychology, Classroom Management, Philosophy of Education, Gender Education, Introduction to Special Education, Creative Teaching Strategies, and many more.

        The Teacher Education Center boasts an excellent faculty team. Both full-time and adjunct professors specialize in the above fields, combining academic expertise with practical experience. They are innovative, efficient, leaders in cutting-edge research, and actively engaged in domestic and international educational and research communities.

        As a result, the Center was awarded First-Class honors in the Teacher Education Evaluation for universities in 2004 and 2008.