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Abstract—This study is aim to develop and implement a service learning curriculum to a remote disadvantaged school district secondary school for pre-service teachers to practice their learning in teacher education course, “the curriculum design and development”. The pre-service teachers applied the collaborative learning to design and develop one weak integrated curriculum for remote school district secondary school. 23 pre-service teachers and 36 students were in this project. The integrated curriculum was developed by pre-service teachers. Then the curriculum was implemented to those students who were low achievement in that secondary school. During the implementation, the pre-service teacher wrote their reflection and the self-efficacy test were held before and after.

Index Terms—Collaborative learning, curriculum and instruction, teacher education, service learning.

Chia-ling Hsu is with Tamkang University, New Taipei City, 25137, Taiwan (R.O.C.) (e-mail: clhsu@mail.tku.edu.tw).

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Cite: Chia-Ling Hsu, "Collaborative Curriculum Design for Remote School District Service Learning," International Journal of Information and Education Technology vol. 5, no. 9, pp. 683-687, 2015.