The purpose of this study was to analyze how secondary-school-teaching-licensed- teach ers-in-elementary-school perceived physical education teaching in elementary school and how they practiced physical education actually in class. To achieve these goals,

This study aims to investigate the current status regarding the utilization of native English teachers in elementary schools focusing on its benefits and problems and to explore better ways of utilizing them for elementary English education. The participants of this study were 1024 elementary school students, 80 Korean elementary English teachers, and 56 native teachers of English. The data were collected through questionnaires and interviews. Through the analysis of data the followings were revealed: 1) the native teachers of English considered that their working conditions including wages and the amount of teaching time were appropriate, but the pre-training program was not satisfactory; 2) the Korean English teachers felt that their workload related to native teachers of English was too heavy; 3) the students perceived that studying English with native teachers of English had positive effects on their English abilities in terms of cognitive and affective aspects; 4) in most schools team teaching between native teachers of English and Korean teachers were being performed and both teachers were satisfied with it; 5) however, several issues such as the role relationship between the Korean English teachers and the native teachers of English, the quality of pre-training, and reconstruction of teaching materials should be resolved in order to improve English program of utilizing native English-speaking teachers in elementary schools.

This study explores an exemplary case of an English immersion program originally initiated by some primary school teachers. It investigates how an immersion education was initiated by the members of an English teachers" study group and later supported by a provincial office of education. The contents of the program and the three examples of immersion classes are briefly illustrated and commented. The innovative endeavors for the successful execution of the immersion classes include the use of the daily morning English practice and various ways of exposing students to English. It was found from the interview conducted with 5 immersion teachers that the strong motivation of the immersion teachers was the first empowering factor for this program and the appropriate financial and administrative help from the provincial office of education was another crucial one. Several practical problems from implementing the immersion program are also reported. From these results and findings some suggestions are made for better ways for implementing immersion programs in elementary schools.

이 논문에서는 한국과 일본의 초등 예비교사들이 가지고 있는 천문학 기초개념에 대한 이해 정도와 천문학에 대한 태도를 조사하여 비교하였다. 천문학 기초개념 및 지식은 1998년에 천문교육연구협의회(The Collaboration for Astronomy Education Research, CAER)에서 개발한 천문학진단검사지(Astronomy Diagnostic Test, ADT ver.2.0)의 21문항에서 한일 양국의 중등학교 교육과정을 고려하여 선정한 12개 문항을 양국의 언어로 번안하여 투입하였다. 천문학 기초개념 및 지식에 대한 검사문항의 신뢰도는 0.69이었다. 천문학 태도에 대한 검사는 제일릭 등(Zeilik et at., 1999)이 개발한 천문학태도조사지(the Survey of Attitudes Towards Astronomy, SATA)를 그대로 번역하여 사용하였다. 신뢰도는 0.87이었다. 조사 결과 천문학 기초개념에 대한 한국의 예비교사들의 정답률은 38%이었고 일본은 37%이었지만, 통계적으로 유의미한 차이는 없었다. 천문학에 대한 태도에서는 한국의 초등 예비교사가 일본보다 높았다. 특히 천문학에 대한 인지적 능력과 가치의 범주는 통계적으로 유의미한 차이가 있었다(p〈.05). 이 연구를 통해 부가적으로, 한국과 일본의 초등 예비교사들의 가진 천문학 기초개념이 지식의 수준이 40%, 미만이었으며, 천문학에 대한 태도 점수가 미국의 대학생들에 비하여 상당히 낮다는 점을 발견할 수 있었다.

Recently the National University of Education has been known to train excellent elementary school teachers. Results of this effort were still recognized by our society and schools. But they also demanded more stronger functions and role on pre-service tea

The purpose of this study was to examine how two different groups of students who took P.E. lessons from P.E. teachers and homeroom teachers respectively during a semester perceived the objectives, method, evaluation and environments of P.E. instruction.

The purpose of this study was to analyze the elementary specially enlisted teacher's cognition concerning physical education(P.E.) of the goals, the content, the teaching and learning method, the evaluation and the management conditions involved in teachi

In education, a teacher was the most important educational environment than any other and that teacher's values and beliefs became a part of education process, which could affect greatly on the children. Therefore, each teacher's perception on the subject

This article investigates the content knowledge and beliefs of primary school teachers about reading instruction from the Shulman’s ‘pedagogical content knowledge’ view, and explores the realities of reading instruction in the classroom. For the purpose, questionnaires were used. The questions were consisted of three areas: items for in-class reading instruction, teacher’s belief on reading, and teacher’s content knowledge about reading. The data revealed that the primary school teachers have insufficient content knowledge for reading instruction, particularly in word analysis skills such as phonemic awareness, letter sound relationships, word frequency, and other topics related to reading. However, teachers’beliefs were different from their knowledge. Whereas their content knowledge about phonics, reading aloud, or story-based reading method is lower, they believe that those skills are effective for reading. It was also found that the realities of reading classroom were different from teachers’ beliefs. Although teachers believe that rich print environment facilitates the learners’ reading development, the print environments were little provided and they did not refer to print for their teaching. The result of analysis suggests that teacher training which focuses on reading instruction needs to be emphasized for effective reading instruction.

The purpose of this study was to examine how teachers perceived joint physical education, one of the types of P.E. instruction, and in which way it was actually instructed. And it's also intended to present the benefits of joint physical education and wor

The purpose of this study was examined the difference of learning behavior between learners taught by the educational practice teacher and learners taught by the experienced teacher as well as the teaching behavior of both the educational practice teacher

본 연구에서는 초등학교 과학교과서 지구과학 부문에 대한 예비교사들의 질문을 분석하였다. 주요 질문의 대상이 된 교과 내용은 교과서 단원별로 쪽 당 평균 질문수의 3배 이상이 나온 교과서 쪽의 내용(주요 질문 교과 내용1)과 2배 이상 3배 미만의 질문수가 나온 내용(주요 질문 교과 내용2)으로 구별하고, 각 교과 내용별로 질문 속에 나타나는 주요 용어들 간 상호관련성을 분석한 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 주요 질문 교과 내용1은 ‘구름관찰’, 지층의 생성 과정‘ 등이 발견되었고, 주요 질문 교과 내용2는 ’강수량 측정‘, ’하룻밤 동안 달의 이동‘ 등으로 4-2학기를 제외한 모든 학기에서 발견되었다. 둘째, 각 교과 내용 당 질문용어의 상호관련성을 보이는 경우는 질문수가 많은 주요 질문 교과내용에서 증가하고 있지만, 4개 용어 유형은 오히려 교과 내용2에서 다수 발견되었다. 셋째, 상호관련성이 큰 질문 용어 묶음은 교과내용1에서 ’석탄과 석유-생성‘, ’변성-열과 압력‘, ’변성-열과 압력-변성암‘, ’행성-태양-혜성-공전‘ 등이며, 교과내용2에서는 ’별자리판-사용‘, ’건습구습도계-원리‘, ’건습구습도계-원리-습도‘, ’지진계-원리-습도‘, ’지진계-원리-지진‘, ’지구자전축-기울어짐-발생‘, ’별자리판-별자리-관찰-사용‘ 등이다. 본 연구에서 분석 자료로 사용된 질문의 원천은 대체로 교과서의 구체적인 구성체제로부터 비롯된 것이거나 지구과학내용에 대한 예비교사들의 일반적인 의문점에서 비롯된 것으로 판단된다. 전자의 경우라면 교과서의 집필과정에서 문장의 서술방법이나 관련 삽화 등의 문제점에서 유발된 것일 가능성이 크기 때문에 교과서 집필상의 문제점을 개선함으로서 해결 가능하지만, 후자는 소양교육 내용과 기초 지구과학개념으로서의 초등학교 교육과정에 대한 재고가 필요하다.

Since the introduction of teaching English as a regular subject into primary schools in 1997, it has been said that the discrepancy between students who are receiving private instruction at learning institutions and private tutoring and those who are not receiving private English instruction is steadily increasing. The purpose of this study was to investigate what impact private English instruction had on English achievement and attitudes of fifth- and sixth-grade students in primary schools. For this purpose, an English achievement test was developed based on the 7th National Curriculum and administered, along with two attitude questionnaires: One questionnaire was administered to 696 fifth- and sixth-grade primary school students, and the other questionnaire given to 12 primary school teachers of the students. The results showed that students started learning English at the average age 7.9-years-old and about 80% of the students were receiving a variety of private English instruction. In line with expectations, tutored students outperformed non-tutored students on the English achievement test. In addition most of the teachers, as well as students, thought it helpful to learn English through private English instruction. One implication from the results suggests that to ensure quality English language teaching at public schools, the government should put forth efforts to nurture qualified English teachers through intensive teacher training.

Teachers who are responsible for children's education are very important to help the school age children to have right nutrition knowledge, they are confronted with difficulties to teach due to the lack of nutrition knowledge as well as materials that can be easily understood by children. The purpose of this study was to look into the basic knowledge of elementary school teachers on nutrition. The elementary school teachers investigated didn't get good marks in nutritional knowledge, food and cooking method knowledge and sanitary knowledge, as the collective averages in those areas were respectively 56.08±14.80, 60.52±10.95, and 45.25±16.13. Sixty seven percent of respondents the largest group, acquired nutritional information through mass media, but they wanted to be given teaching information in the form of educational materials(49.0%). More than 70 percent believed that nutrition should be educated by nutrition teachers (p〈0.01), and as for what should be handled in nutrition education, they thought that students should be educated to build the right eating habits (59.5%). Based on the results, a sequential nutrition education program for the lower grades of school children was developed. This program consisted of five different categories, and according to the results, that was designed to deal with the knowledge of teachers on nutrition, food, cooking method and hygiene, table manners and food-borne illness.

English is now commonly called an international or a global language. Korea starts to face some changes in terms of the situational and functional status of English from EFL to ESL. A bilingual education approach called 'immersion education' to teach English is urgently needed to be taken in Korea, especially in the primary school level. The present paper aims to investigate perceptions of primary school teachers about the introduction of English immersion education program. A total of 171 primary school teachers were surveyed employing a questionnaire asking about their knowledge, opinions and attitudes with regard to the introduction of English immersion education in primary schools in Korea. It was found that there are lots of things to take into consideration introducing the English immersion education system in the areas of preor in-service teacher training system, governmental assistance, and other practical issues of deciding starting grade and the subjects for immersion, for example. Some suggestions are provided for a practical guide for the introduction of English immersion education.

본 연구의 목적은 교사의 과학 교과교육학 지식의 발달이 교수 실제와 교수 효능감에 어떤 영향을 미치는가를 알아보는데 있다. 연구 목적을 달성하기 위한 연구 문제는 첫째, 교사의 과학 교과교육학 지식의 발달과 과학 교수 효능감은 어떤 관련성이 있는가? 둘째, 교사의 과학 교과교육학 지식의 발달 정도에 따라서 과학 교수 실제에 어떤 영향을 미치는가? 셋째, 교사의 과학 교수 효능감 정도에 따라서 과학 교수 실제에 어떤 영향을 미치는가? 이다. 이를 해결하기 위해서 53개 공립 초등학교에서 120명의 교사를 표집하여 과학 교과교육학 지식 측정 도구와 과학 교수 효능감측정 도구를 투입하였고, 수업 관찰과 면담을 통하여 데이터를 획득하였다. 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 교사들의 과학 교과교육학 지식과 과학 교수 효능감은 경력이 많을수록 점차 증가하며, 학력이 높을수록 발달한다. 과학 교과교육학 지식과 과학 교수 효능감의 상관분석 결과 둘 사이에 높은 상관 관계가 있었으며 통계적으로도 유의미하였다. 둘째, 과학 교과교육학 지식이 높은 교사의 수업 실제의 특징은 교사가 가지고 있는 과학 교과교육학 지식을 충분히 활용하고 있었으며 수업 전체에 대한 자신감을 가지고 있었다. 셋째, 과학 교수 효능감이 높은 교사의 수업 실제의 수업의 초기에 수업 목표와 학습 문제를 학생들에게 정확하게 인식시키려고 노력하며 수업의 각 과정에도 재인식시키는 특징이 있다. 자기의 과학 수업에 대한 상당한 자신감이 있고 내용에 대한 지식뿐만 아니라 수업에 관련된 그 외의 분야에도 지식이 풍부한 공통점이 있다.