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http://dx.doi.org/10.7468/jksmec.2020.23.4.191

Elementary School Teachers' Perception on the Need of Professional Development in Mathematics  

Park, Jukyung (Seoul Haenghyun Elementary School)
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Education of Primary School Mathematics / v.23, no.4, 2020 , pp. 191-206 More about this Journal
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to find an implication for a direction to improve professional development in mathematics by exploring elementary school teachers' perception of the need for professional development in mathematics. To this end, 4 elementary school teachers were organized into one focus group, and group discussion materials were collected and analyzed based on cases of mathematics professional development needs. As a result of the study, the elementary school teachers' perception that the need for professional development in mathematics is both unnecessary and necessary. The perception of unnecessary was influenced by the easy level of elementary school mathematics content and the ease of teaching. Also, the perception of necessary factors were considering various aspects of mathematics teaching, changing the accumulation of failures in mathematics classes, maintaining authority of students, demand for class improvement due to social change, the impact of school work, the influence of the community of professional development and peers in school, and efforts to grow as teachers. Based on these results, the author discussed ways to promote teachers' participation in mathematics professional development by considering elementary school teachers' perceptions of the need of mathematics professional development.
Keywords
professional development; elementary mathematics; teachers' perception;
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