This study explores ways to enhance pre-service English teachers’ curriculum development competency through collaboration with in-service teachers. To this end, a course was designed to incorporate three key competencies of curriculum development (curriculum literacy, curriculum development competency, and curriculum evaluation competency) while adopting task-based language teaching and collaboration with inservice teachers as teaching methods. The designed course was implemented in a university for validation and revision. Ten pre-service English teachers participated in the course, where they developed English curricula in response to requests from three in-service middle school English teachers. A questionnaire survey conducted at the end of the semester with both pre-service and in-service teachers revealed that the proposed course model adequately worked to improve the three key competencies of English curriculum development among pre-service teachers. Further, collaboration with inservice teachers was found to enhance pre-service teachers’ responsibility and active engagement in curriculum development, while also providing practical assistance and creative teaching ideas to in-service teachers.

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of group-based consultations on pre-service primary school teachers' English teaching competence. Twenty nine pre-service teachers in groups of four or five received two rounds of consultations on their micro-teaching demonstrations from two native English instructors. The consultation procedure was three steps: preparation, micro-teaching observation and feedback. The self-evaluation checklists and micro-teaching evaluations were analyzed quantitatively to find how much improvement between the first and second micro-teaching had been made. The results indicated that consultations helped the pre-service teachers to improve their English teaching competence in general. The comments written by the consultants and the pre-service teachers about their micro-teaching observations were examined qualitatively. The results showed that consultations enabled the pre-service teachers to realize the strengths and weaknesses in their teaching behavior. Also, the observation of peer teaching and group discussion helped them to gain useful teaching skills and insights on what a good English lesson should be like.

본 연구는 동료의 수업코칭이 영어교사 교수 역량 강화에 미치는 영향을 살펴본 것이다. 주요 연구 문제는 수업코칭이 교사들의 수업 문제점 인식, 수업 설계, 수업 실행에 어떠한 영향을 미치는가를 상세히 밝히는 것이다. 이를 위해 본 연구는 3인의 현직 중학교 영어교사들을 대상으로 7개 월에 걸쳐 수업코칭을 실시하였다. 그 결과 수업코칭이 영어교사 교수 역량 구성 요소 중 자기 수업 성찰과 동료와의 협력, 수업 설계와 실천, 태도 변화에 긍정적인 영향을 주었다는 점을 알 수 있었다. 즉, 수업코칭은 코치교사와 함께 자신의 수업을 있는 그대로 관찰하는 과정에서 문제점을 인식할 수 있도록 하였고, 수업교사들의 자기 수업에 대한 문제점 인식은 코치교사와의 협력적 상호작용 및 성찰을 통해 새로운 생각의 도출로 이어져, 발전적 수업에 대한 대안을 모색하여 발전된 수업 설계와 실행으로 이어졌다. 또한 수업의 계획과 실천 과정에서 느껴졌던 불안감과 회의감은 코치교사와의 협력적 상호작용을 통해 자신감이 향상되는 변화가 있었다. 이러한 결과를 종합할 때 본 연구에 참가한 수업교사들의 수업 성찰과 동료교사와의 협력을 통한 자기 수업 개선의 노력 은 영어교사의 교수 역량 강화에 긍정적인 영향을 미쳤다고 볼 수 있다.