• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.73-106
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to identify difficulties in the relationships between kindergarten teachers and parents and find out factors that make the relationship difficult. The research questions are as follows: Firstly, what are the difficulties of the kindergarten teachers in making relationship with the parents? Secondly, what are the reactions of the kindergarten teachers toward the difficulties in making relationships with the parents? The research participants were 15 teachers of private kindergartens located in C city. Semi-structured interviews were administered to the participants. Their responses were categorized into several themes while examining transcribed data continuously. The difficulties expressed by the kindergarten teachers were analyzed into "Teacher aspect" and "Parent aspect". The research findings were as follows. Firstly, the teachers found difficulty with particular characteristics of parents and their demands. Also, teachers found difficulty with making positive relationships with the parents because they perceived problems from their own perspective. Secondly, The teachers' reactions towards the difficulties of the relationships with the parents appeared into 4 different types.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.153-163
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• 2011

This study aimed to identify the difficulties that new science teachers in secondary schools experience. Subjects for this study were 190 science teachers attending qualifying training for 1st degree of teaching certificate. Using an open questionnaire, the difficulties these teachers encounter were collected, categorized, and compared between their first year and their succeeding years of teaching in terms of their school level, gender, majors and regions. Results showed that first year science teachers have had difficulties in areas including subject teaching, guidance, administrative affairs, human relationship and self-understanding. On their succeeding years, difficulties about subject teaching were reduced to half while other difficulties remained. New teachers in middle schools have experienced the most number of difficulties about guidance, while new teachers in general high schools have experienced the most number of difficulties about subject teaching. Based on these findings, some recommendations were proposed for new science teachers in secondary schools, school administrators, and training institutions.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.63 no.3
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• pp.166-182
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• 2019

This study examined teachers' difficulties that they encountered free semester science assessment and their problem solutions. Fifteen science teachers who had experiences of free semester teaching and assessment were selected by convenience sampling in this study. The participant teachers mentioned difficulties of accurate scoring in student self/peer assessment and suggested solutions of providing studetns with detailed assessment criteria and opportunities to practice assessment. The participant teachers mentioned a lack of objective assessment criteria for affective domain and suggested solutions of providing criteria prior to assessment and developing assessment framework. The participant teachers mentioned a lack of assessment tools and references for perforamnce assesement. The participant teachers mentioned difficulties of a large teacherstudent ratio for providng feedbacks to students and suggested solutions of decreasing teacher-student ratio and teaching load. The participant teachers mentioned difficulties of identifying student characteristics for assessment reporting and suggested solutions of decreaing teacher work load. The participant teachers mentioned a lack of teacher understanding of process based assessment and inactive attitude to performance assessment and suggested solutions of professional learning community and improving teacher perceptions on performance assessment. The participant teachers mentioned difficulties of a large teacher-student ratio and a lack of time for implementing assessment methods that they learned from professional development programs. With both teacher self-efforts and systematic support, these problems would be solved and success of free semester assessment would be achieved.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.311-332
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• 2015

The present study employed a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design to evaluate the effectiveness of a teacher education program for child care teachers. Twenty-seven teachers were randomly assigned to intervention and control groups with 12 and 17 teachers in each group. Teachers in the intervention group participated in the program. After termination of the program, differences between pre- and post-tests were examined in regards to teachers' emotional regulation, efficacy, parent-teacher communication and job satisfaction. There were four major findings. First, self-reported teachers'emotional regulation, teachers'efficacy and job satisfaction were significantly improved in the intervention group, but not in the control group. Second, parent-teacher communication difficulty was significantly reduced in the intervention group, but not in the control group. These findings emphasize the importance of the teachers' positive characteristics in improving the outcome of preschoolers.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2019.07a
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• pp.209-210
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• 2019

정보 교과가 아닌 타 교과에서 교육 도구로써 프로그래밍의 교육적 효과가 증명됨에 따라 프로그래밍을 수업에 도입하기 위한 다양한 연구가 진행되었다. 김성원과 이영준(2017)은 TPACK 이론을 도입하여, 테크놀로지 도구로 프로그래밍 언어를 도입하고, 예비 교사의 수업 전문성 향상을 위한 프로그래밍 기반 TPACK 교육 프로그램을 개발하였다. 개발한 교육 프로그램을 수업에 도입하였지만, 예비 교사는 여러 가지 어려움을 느끼고 있었다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 프로그래밍 기반 TPACK 교육 프로그램을 개선하기 위하여 예비 교사에게 선행 연구에서 개발한 교육 프로그램을 적용하고, 프로그래밍 기반 수업 설계를 하는 과정에서 예비 교사가 겪는 어려움을 조사하였다. 연구 결과, 예비 교사는 예비 교사는 프로그래밍 학습, 프로그램의 설계 및 구현, 교과 특성에 맞는 프로그램 개발, 프로그래밍 언어의 한계로 프로그래밍 기반 수업 설계에서 어려움을 겪고 있었다. 향후 연구에서는 이러한 어려움을 해결하기 위한 교육 프로그램 개선을 진행하고, 개선한 교육 프로그램을 예비 교사에게 적용하여 효과를 검증하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Earth Science Education
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.64-73
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to analyze the difficulties of teachers who teach gifted students in invention and to help address their concerns. To this end, the researcher interviews four teachers with more than three years of experience in guiding gifted students in invention. As a result, they have the difficulties such as difficulties in themselves, relationship with parents, in teaching students, relationship with school and relationship with education office. Supporting measures are 1) strengthening incentives for inventive gifted teachers, 2) continuing in service education, 3) improving the student selection process for gifted students in invention, 4) improving parents' perception of gifted students in invention, 5) improving awareness of school administrators, 6) consistent and continuous administration.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2011.05b
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• pp.785-788
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• 2011

본 연구는 보육교사들의 이야기나누기 수업 운영의 어려움에 대해 구체적으로 알아보기 위해 수업운영과정에서 교사가 경험하는 내용과 의미에 대한 질적인 분석을 하였다. 연구의 목적은 보육교사의 반성적 사고능력의 향상과 다양한 수업에 대한 지원을 통한 보육교사의 수업능력 향상을 돕는데 있다. 이 연구를 위하여 어린이집에서 담임으로 근무하는 교사 7명이 연구에 참여하였고, 참여관찰, 심층면담, 동료교사와의 협의, 교사의 저널쓰기 등의 자료를 수집하여 분석하였다. 연구의 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 이야기나누기 수업 운영에서 교사들은 이야기나누기 수업준비를 위한 시간부족과 유아와의 상호작용, 교사의 발문, 유아의 주의집중에서 어려움으로 느끼고 있었으며 수업 운영에 필요한 다양한 지원과 함께 교사가 수업의 질을 향상시킬 수 있는 장학의 필요성을 인식하게 되었다.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.33 no.7
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• pp.1300-1311
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to investigate pre-service science teachers' difficulties in the 'inquiry mentoring' program, which was developed to improve pre-service science teachers' inquiry teaching ability. For this study, I developed the 'inquiry mentoring' program in which pre-service science teachers taught high school students. This program was adapted for 2.5 months, and 45 pre-service science teachers participated and taught 44 high school students. During this program, pre-service science teachers kept 'mentor diaries' and wrote 'mentoring reports' at the end of the program. Interviews were conducted with all pre-service science teachers. Results are as follows: first, pre-service science teachers thought that the difficulties in inquiry mentoring resulted from their inadequacy (mentor factor) than students' inadequacy (mentee factor). Second, pre-service science teachers perceived their lack of cognitive ability, inquiry ability and teaching ability as a mentor factor. Third, pre-service science teachers thought that they had difficulties in students' differences and lack of activity as a mentee factor. Fourth, they described difficulties caused by emotional distance as well as physical distance as an interaction factor. They also mentioned the difficulties related to teaching range and online interaction. Fifth, pre-service science teachers expressed a sense of frustration with the inquiry environment. Additionally, some implications were discussed for pre-service science teacher education through the 'inquiry mentoring' program.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.103-121
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of the listening competence of early childhood teachers on their teacher-parent communication difficulties and teacher-child interaction in an attempt to provide some information on the development of the listening competence of early childhood teachers. Three hundred and twenty two early childhood teachers participated in the study and descriptive, correlation, multiple regression analysis were conducted. The results are as follows: First, listening competence had a statistically significant negative correlation with teacher-parent communication difficulties. Second, among the sub-factors of listening competence, comprehending and interpreting, and responding exerted a statistically significant negative influence on teacher-parent communication difficulties. Third, listening competence had a statistically significant positive correlation with teacher-child interaction. Fourth, among the sub-factors of listening competence, responding, comprehending and interpreting, analyzing and evaluating exerted a statistically significant positive influence on teacher-child interaction.

• Journal of the Korean School Mathematics Society
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.47-61
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• 2019

The objectives of this study were to explore the difficulties of high school mathematics teachers while guiding students and to examine whether the perception of difficulties varied by gender, position, and work experience. This study randomly chose 36 mathematics teachers as participants and they were living in six cities or provinces in South Korea. The results showed that teachers experienced difficulties while guiding students, in student evaluation and teaching and learning methods, in the order of magnitude. There was no statistical difference by gender, position, and work experience. Unlike the results of previous studies suggesting that mathematics content knowledge and pedagogical knowledge would help students guide students, the results of this study revealed that they had relatively little impact on student guidance.