• Journal of Christian Education in Korea
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• v.63
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• pp.183-219
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to find out what their professionalism is and how their expertise grows among Christian alternative school teachers. Professionalism refers to the broad expertise such as specific knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for a particular profession. The teacher expertise is also closely related to the life cycle of a teacher. The present study collected and analyzed the data using a mixed research method that combined a survey and interview. The survey, which involved 276 Christian alternative school teachers, asked about the current teacher's interest, the importance and retention of each element of professionalism, and, in addition, the level of external efforts and help in developing professionalism. The in-depth interview was conducted on 7 Christian alternative school teachers and identified the meaning of teacher professionalism, teacher quality and competencies, and environment for the professional growth. The results reveal that the professionalism recognized by Christian alternative school teachers is rather complex. It includes communication and relationship, calling and identity in addition to the curriculum and instruction expertise that reconstructs the curriculum from a Christian perspective. It is further found that teachers' decision to respond to the calling, subsequent continuous self-development, the teacher community that embodies such calling and efforts, and the school environment where autonomy and responsibility coexist, are equally important for their professional growth. Thus, in order to promote the professionalism of Christian alternative school teachers more effectively in the future, it would be necessary to provide programs that take the teacher's whole life cycle into account and are also directed to teachers themselves rather than to institutions. Considering the emphasis on the expertise in communication and relations, pre-service teacher education should focus not only on developing subject matter expertise, but also fostering communication and relational skills with students and other school community members.

• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.153-174
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• 2010

The purpose of this research was to investigate the effects of servant leadership, teacher development stage and organizational effectiveness. Subjects in this study were 259 teachers working at kindergartens and child care centers in Seoul and the Capital area of Korea. Servant Leadership Questionnaire(Kim, 2004), Teacher Development Stage Questionnaire(Lee, 2007), Organizational Commitment Questionnaire(Kim, 1998), Job Satisfaction Questionnaire(Kim, 2007), Teacher Job Satisfaction Questionnaire(Noh, 2001), and Job Performance Questionnaire(Kim, 1983) were used. Descriptive statistics, T-tests, Pearson's correlation, and hierarchical regression analysis were performed. Results showed that servant leadership, teacher development stage and organizational effectiveness were highly correlated with one another. Variables of servant leadership and teacher development were significant predictors of organizational effectiveness. Conclusions suggest that organizational effectiveness was multiply determined.

• The Mathematical Education
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• v.63 no.3
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• pp.485-503
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• 2024

The purpose of this study is to analyze elementary school teachers' mindsets about students' mathematical ability. For this purpose, we developed a 20-item scale to measure teachers' mindset through a review of the literature. In order to verify the developed scale, a survey was conducted among 158 elementary school teachers, and the structure of the items was analyzed by exploratory factor analysis. As a result, three factors were identified: "growth mindset toward change in mathematical ability", "fixed mindset toward change in mathematical ability", and "mindset toward innate mathematical ability". Four groups were distinguished by latent profile analysis, using the scores on these three factors as variables, to characterize the different groups of teachers based on their mindset. The groups with the most participants in the study were, in order, growth mindset teachers, neutral mindset teachers, strong growth mindset teachers, and fixed mindset teachers. Interviews were also conducted with representative participants from each group to learn more about the characteristics of teachers in each profile. Based on the results of the study, we discussed the implications of mindset in terms of the classification of teachers' mindset about students' mathematical ability, the popularity of growth mindset among elementary school teachers in Korea, and research on teachers' mindset about innate mathematical ability.

• Industry Promotion Research
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.81-89
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• 2023

This study aims to provide basic data to increase the happiness of college students by verifying whether a growth mindset moderates the mediating effect of teachers' autonomy support for students in the relationship between academic achievement and happiness. The survey subjects were intentionally sampled from 396 engineering students attending a university in Guangzhou who performed a business practice project. The questionnaire method was used to collect data, and the collected data was analyzed using SPSS PC+ Win. 27.0 and PROCESS macro 4.2. The applied statistical techniques were frequency, reliability, correlation, and moderated mediation effect analysis. The research results are as follows. First, there was a significant positive correlation between academic achievement, teachers' autonomy support, growth mindset, and happiness. Second, a growth mindset played a role in increasing the impact of academic achievement on happiness through teachers' autonomy support. Therefore, it was confirmed that a growth mindset increases the mediating effect of teachers' autonomy support in the relationship between academic achievement and happiness. Based on the research results, measures to improve the happiness of college students were suggested.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.43 no.1
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• pp.29-36
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• 2023

This study investigates the effects of the operation of science activity program on scientific literacy focusing on science cultural literacy and core competencies for pre-service teachers. 255 pre-service teachers of K University participated, and the effects of the program were examined through a paired-sample t-test with one group pretest-posttest design for science cultural literacy. Only the post-test was conducted on core competency growth perception, and differences in growth perceptions by competency were compared using ANOVA. As a result of the study, the average of pre-service teachers was higher than the pre-test for science culture literacy, and this difference was statistically significant (p<.05). In the core competency growth perception, 70.6% of pre-service teachers reported growth in scientific communication ability, and as a result of the post-hoc test using LSD, it shows statistically significant growth compared to other competencies (p<.05). Through this, it was possible to confirm the educational value of the science activity program as a way to develop pre-service teachers' scientific literacy.

• Industry Promotion Research
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.285-294
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• 2024

This study aims to provide basic data for improving academic self-efficacy by identifying the mediating effect of teacher support and the moderating effect of growth mindset in the impact of academic burnout on academic self-efficacy. The subjects of the survey were 300 college students majoring in stomatology and stomatology technology in Guangzhou Medical College who were intentionally sampled from a university in Guangdong, China. Data was collected using an online questionnaire. Data analysis was performed using SPSS PC+ Win. ver. 25.0 and SPSS PROCESS macro ver. 4.2. The statistical techniques used were descriptive statistics, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, and indirect effect and conditional direct effect analysis. The research results are as follows. First, academic burnout showed a significant negative correlation with teacher support, growth mindset, and academic self-efficacy. Teacher support showed a significant positive correlation with growth mindset and academic self-efficacy. Second, in the relationship between academic burnout and academic self-efficacy, teacher support played a mediating role, and growth mindset played a moderating role. To improve academic self-efficacy, this study proposed ways to utilize teacher support to offset and growth mindset to buffer the impact of academic burnout on academic self-efficacy.

• Journal of Educational Research in Mathematics
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.311-331
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• 2014

For preservice teachers' instrumental-to-relational pedagogical content knowledge transformations, this research designed several didactical tasks based on Kinach's cognitive strategies. The researcher identified preservice teachers' understanding about what is a definition and how to teach it. By challenging their fixed ideas about definitions, the researcher could motivate them to embrace the new teaching approach which guides reinvention of definitions. The PCK development was not the simple process of filling their tabular rasa PCK with theories of mathematics education, but the dialectical process of identifying, challenging, changing and extending preservice teachers' existent PCK. This research will contribute to explore new directions of mathematics teachers' PCK development and the method of teacher education.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.44 no.5
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• pp.453-471
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• 2024

In open inquiry, teachers must identify the difficulties of students and provide appropriate help, but most science teachers are struggling with open inquiry guidance. Therefore, this study, using autoethnography, focused on the professional growth of a novice science teacher who guided open inquiry and examined the experiences of a science teacher who guided open inquiry for two years. Based on this, we tried to explore the difficulties of open inquiry guidance, the process of overcoming them, and the process of professional growth. For this purpose, the researcher collected self-recall data, self-reflection data, interview data, and cultural artifacts data, and the collected data was analyzed according to a comprehensive analysis procedure. Teacher expertise in open inquiry instruction could be divided into three areas: areas related to teaching practice experienced during direct inquiry instruction to students, areas related to the external environment excluding students and teachers themselves, and the internal area of the teachers themselves. First, the researcher encountered difficulties due to a lack of understanding of the role of an open inquiry instructor but overcame difficulties and developed professionalism through the process of considering the competencies and qualities necessary for an instructor and making efforts to provide appropriate scaffolding to students. Second, difficulties were experienced due to institutional constraints such as lack of time for club activities, lack of science lab equipment, and difficulty in budgeting. To overcome these issues, researchers identified and utilized surrounding resources to create an environment so that students could focus on inquiry. Third, there was a difficulty due to the lack of a support system to receive internal concerns and conflicts encountered in the process of guiding open inquiry. But through communication with the head science teacher, the researcher was able to gain courage and strength and increase the efficacy as a teacher. The experience of guiding open inquiry served as a foundation for growth, and two years later, the researcher was able to confirm the growth as a teacher.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.7-11
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• 2010

우리나라는 2009년 OECD DAC 회원국으로 가입하면서 6.25전쟁직후 세계 최빈국으로써 원조를 받는 국가에서 60년만에 국제사회에 원조를 제공하는 공여국으로 성장한 국제사회의 유일무이한 사례이다. 우리 나라의 ODA(Official Development Assistance)는 ICT, 교육 분야 등과 같이 우리나라가 세계적으로 경쟁력을 가지고 있는 분야를 특성화하여 제공하고 있다. 모로코는 2012년까지 9,000여개의 모로코 초중등학교에 ICT를 보급한다는 계획과 ICT 산업 육성을 국가 주요 정책으로 추진하고 있는 있어 금번 프로젝트는 모로코 교사의 ICT 역량 강화를 지원하기 위하여 한국의 ICT 교육시스템을 모로코 초중등 교사에게 제공하는 것이다. 본 프로젝트는 교육쎈터 리모델링, ICT 기자재설치, 교사 커리큘럼 개발, 홈페이지 개발, 정책보고서 발간, 모로코 교사 초청 연수로 구분되어 있으며, 2009년 1월에 시작되어 2010년 11월에 완료된다. 본 프로젝트를 통해 모로코 초중등 교사 23만명중 년간 1,000명을 교육하고, 교육을 받은 교사는 소속지역에서 ICT Master Teacher 역할을 담당하게 된다. 본 프로젝트를 통하여 우리나라는 모로코 교육 선진화에 기여하며, 한국 ICT 기자재를 활용함으로써 한국산 H/W, SW 및 교육컨텐츠의 우수성을 모로코와 인근 국가에 홍보하고, 이를 통해 국내 기업의 북아프리카 진출을 간접 지원하였다. 또한, 본 프로젝트를 통하여 모로코를 비롯하여 2000년도부터 년평균 5.3%의 경제성장을 지속하고 있는 아프리카지역에 한국 ICT제품이 진출할 수 있는 방안으로, 국산 e-러닝 개발툴을 영어, 불어와 아랍어 버젼으로 추가 개발하였으며, 모로코 대학과 합작기업을 설립을 추진하고 있다.

• Journal of Music and Human Behavior
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.1-23
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• 2018

Recently, there has been a growing focus on the concerns pre-service teachers have as they move through different stages of their teacher preparation programs. Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to investigate pre-service secondary music teachers' concerns about music teaching and learning. The specific research questions were as follows: (a) What concerns are most common among participants? (b) What are differences in the concerns of pre-service secondary music teachers based on their stage of teacher preparation? (c) What are differences in the concerns of pre-service secondary music teachers based on their previous teaching experiences? A survey was distributed to pre-service secondary music teachers in a university in Seoul, and responses from a total of 93 participants were included in the final analysis. Data analysis indicated that pre-service music teachers experienced more concerns related to teaching tasks and student impact than themselves. Also, as participants progressed through their teacher preparation programs, self concerns decreased while task concerns and student impact concerns increased. Pre-service secondary music teachers who had previously taught in a school had fewer concerns than participants with no teaching experience. Suggestions for how teacher preparation programs can address the concerns of pre-service secondary music teachers are offered.