Technology education (TE) in Taiwan is implemented in elementary, junior high, senior high, and comprehensive high schools. Since 2001, the new curriculum syllabus for grades 1-9 reflects the call for educational reform in such areas as articulation, integration, and flexibility of reform. The national curriculum for grades 10-12 is being revised; technology is being considered as an independent
... [Show full abstract] subject at the upper secondary level. TE programs are not institutionalized in teachers' colleges for elementary teachers. Secondary school living technology teachers are certified after four years of on-campus training and a one-year field internship in a secondary school. In the future, the internship will be shortened to a half year and more course credits will be required. Technology teacher educators are working on these efforts to promote present and emerging TE: research projects, unit plans with technology learning activities, TE periodicals, a students' technology performance contest, teacher's professional development workshops, and a technology professional association. Major problems in TE and technology teacher education that need to be resolved are that technology is not well understood; TE at the elementary level is still not universal; TE is not considered as important as other courses; differences exist between the curriculum standard and the realistic learning environment; and technology teacher education programs are diluting their professional roles. (YLB)