教學實習是職前教師教育重要的一環，學員可以透過實習將學到的理論作具體實踐和驗證。本文就職前教師教育的教學實習，從不同的運作層面探討學院與實習學校間四個合作模式，並提出建立成功與持續性之院校合作關係的各項要素。文章的第二部份則集中探討香港情況，對香港教育學院與學校的合作模式作深入剖析，報告參與院校合作計劃的學員和學校教師之訪問內容。最後，本文歸納各類型合作模式和參與者的經驗分享，總結院校合作賦予的啟示，進而展望未來的合作路向。
The field experience is an important component in the initial teacher education programme and this is an opportunity for the student-teachers to contextualize and test out their learning. This paper sets out to examine the operational levels of institute-school partnerships in which the initial teacher education and schools are engaged as partners in the field experience. Having identified the levels of operation, the literature review describes four possible models of partnership and defines conditions for the success and maintenance of such relationship. The second part of the paper examines the local context by analyzing the various forms of partnerships that the Hong Kong Institute of Education has been engaged in. Moreover, interview data from the student-teachers and the school teachers who participated in the schemes of collaboration were reported. Drawing on the different modes of partnership and the experiences of the participants, the paper concludes with the implications and postulates the future direction of development.
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文章指出，教統會《第四號報告書》（1990）提議把三個本來獨立的科目：健康教育科、社會科及科學科綜合為常識科。但是，這個把小學科學科歸入常識科的嘗試，面對不少困難，尤其當教師在任教與科學有關的課題時。這些問題不但影響香港小學常識科教與學的質素，更會影響香港小學生的科學素養及阻礙他們發展思考的能力。

作者於文章匯報，基於資料所得到的教師的科學知識，及教師應用科學於教學和日常生活中的情況，檢討現時幼師培訓課程的有效度，繼而討論如何加強幼師在科學方面的培訓。最後，作者作出建議引發幼師教育工作者對幼兒科學學習的重現。

此論文是有關香港小學生科學素養的領示研究報告。作者指出，研究目的在於建立一套有系統的方法用以評估香港小學生的科學素養，由此而可展開探討本港小學生的科學素養水平，及確定影響學生科學素養的因素的研究。