• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.101-128
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to investigate early childhood pre service teachers' perception on the meanings of free play and the roles of teachers in charge of free play hours. For this purpose, this study analyzed reflective journals, metaphorizing, image drawings, and interview records made by 69 junior students majoring in Early Childhood Education and participating in the practice of child care. According to the results, the meanings of free play perceived by the early childhood pre service teachers were summarized into 'an exciting festival,' 'a fenced playground,' and 'a journey for learning.' In addition, their perceptions on the roles of teachers in charge of free play hours were summarized into 'accompanying teacher,' 'leading teacher,' 'correcting teacher,' and 'encouraging teacher.' These results suggest the need of systematic education through pre service curriculums that help early childhood pre service teachers form a balanced view and perception on the meaning of free play and the teachers' role performance.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.9 no.9
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• pp.147-157
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• 2019

This research is analyzed the effect of teacher's sense of efficacy from childcare teacher on happiness. The aim is to verifying the interactional medium effect and regulating the result of job stress regulating result between teacher and children. Therefore, the 7th of survey data from Panel Study on Korean Children was referenced in this paper. The respondents of this data are 348 children who just 5 years old and those teachers in. The final results were verified by adopting hierarchical analysis. Likewise, the results also showed the medium effect by the sobel test. Based on the results, it was shown that firstly, the teacher's sense of efficacy from childcare teacher has a positive impact on happiness. Secondly, there is a medium effect creating by interacted between teacher and children. Thirdly, the influence between happiness and the teacher's sense of efficacy lead to regulating the result of job stress. Hence, for increasing the happiness of childcare teacher, it is necessary to seek a program with practicality.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.1785-1794
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to examine differences between nursery teachers and kindergarten teachers in their perception on key elements of effective interactions and enhanced teaching competence. The subject of the study were 143 early childhood teachers in the Y region of Gyeonggi-do. The collected data was processed through frequency and percentage. For difference test, ${\chi}^2$ tests were conducted. The results of this study can be summarized as follows. First, both nursery teachers and kindergarten teachers perceived that listening and playing were the most important factors in effective interactions between young children and teachers. However, nursery teachers perceived the interaction through skin-ship and complimenting to be more important whereas kindergarten teachers perceived questioning and complimenting as necessary. For the teaching criteria, nursery teachers put more weights on playing while kindergarten teachers focus more on explaining and coorperating. In addition, about evaluation methods, nursery teachers perceived self-evaluation as important, whereas kindergarten teachers perceived observation notes as important. Second, about the elements to strengthen teaching competence, nursery teachers perceived that observation records should be utilized for understanding interest or desire. They also believe that development analysis and teaching methods should be improved through systematical teaching plan and evaluation and that enhancement of teaching material and education are necessary. In contrast, kindergarten teachers perceived that observation records should be utilized for teaching plan and development analysis and teaching methods should be improved through participating in the meetings related to career and education. They believe that providing a prize money through supervising evaluation is necessary.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2016.07a
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• pp.177-178
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• 2016

본 논문에서는 유아교육기관에서 사용되고 있는 영상의 종류를 파악하고 유아관련 교사들이 학습해야 하는 영상 소프트웨어 등을 소개한다. 이를 통해 스마트한 유아교사 양성 및 최신 기술을 적용한 유치원 환경 조성에 이바지 하고 학생 및 학부모들에게 유치원 활동 등을 소개하는 기회를 갖고자 한다. 따라서 본 연구는 유치원에서 제작되고 있는 영상에 대해 알아보고 이를 만들기 위해 필요한 소프트웨어 종류와 특징을 설명하고 유치원 교사로서 해야 하는 직무 능력을 소개하고자 한다.

• Journal of Gifted/Talented Education
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.483-497
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to examine the validity of the Teacher's Scale for Gifted Preschool Children(TSGPC). Participation of this study were 357 preschool children and their parents and teachers from Seoul, Ulsan, Daegy, Gwangiu & Daejeon. Data were analyzed by exploratory factor analysis, Pearson's r, t-test and Cronbach's ${\alpha}$. Results are as follows. (1) exploratory factor analysis of TSGPC revealed that a 5-factor solution (academic ability, creativity, task commitment, artistic talent, and leadership) was the best fit. (2) Correlations between TSGPC and parental rating scale for young children's giftedness were significant. (3) Scores of TSGPC between gifted children and general children were significantly different (4) Cronbach's ${\alpha}$ ranged from .82 and .91 for subscale of TSGPC and .93 for the total scale. These results show that the Teacher's Scale for Gifted Preschool Children is quite reliable and valid measure.

• Proceedings of KHEA Conference
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.77-77
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• 2007

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.281-286
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• 2023

We aimed to find out how teaching ethics and empathy affect the perception of children's rights with 297 pre-service early childhood teachers enrolled in the Department of Early Childhood Education at universities located in Busan. Through this, the purpose of this study was to present basic data for the development of a character development program for a high-quality early childhood teacher training institution. We derived the following research results. First, as a result of examining the degree of recognition of pre-service early childhood teachers' teaching ethics, empathy, and awareness of children's rights, the average value was high in the order of teaching ethics, awareness of children's rights, and empathy. Second, there was a positive correlation between pre-service early childhood teachers' empathy ability, teaching ethics and awareness of children's rights, and empathy ability and awareness of children's rights. Third, as a result of examining the relative effects of teaching ethics and empathy of pre-service early childhood teachers on the recognition of children's rights, social ethics was found to be the strongest predictor among teaching ethics. In this study, we identified that teaching ethics and empathy are effective in various approaches to promote awareness of children's rights in pre-service early childhood teachers. And the results of this study provides the basic data for the character development of desirable teachers that pre-service early childhood teachers should have.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.283-297
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• 2019

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between university life satisfaction and resilience to happiness and university life satisfaction. The subjects of this study were 249 pre-service early childhood teachers in Seoul and Gyeonggi province. The statistical analysis of this study was analyzed using the SPSS V. 22.0 program. The results of the study are summarized as follows. First, pre-service early childhood teachers' perceived resilience, happiness, and University life satisfaction were generally considered to be 'normal'. Second, the relationship between the resilience and happiness of pre-service early childhood teachers showed that the higher the resilience, the higher the level of happiness. Also, resilience showed statistically significant effect on happiness and 69% of happiness. Third, the relationship between resilience of pre-service early childhood teachers and university life satisfaction showed that the higher the resilience of resilience, the higher the satisfaction of University life. Also, resilience showed a significant effect on university life satisfaction and 68% of happiness. This study is meaningful in that the resilience of pre-service early childhood teachers proves to be an important factor in the happiness and the University life satisfaction, which are related to quality of life of pre-service early childhood teachers.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.221-225
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident of Japan in 2011 on kindergarten teachers' perception on young children's safety due to radioactive contamination. This study analysed the 134 questionnaire forms out of 197 kindergarten teachers in the region of Chungbuk. The findings of the study indicated that the Japanese unclear power plant accident exerted an influence on anxious of kindergarten teachers on young children's safety due to radioactive contamination. In conclusion, kindergarten teacher education are required to improve the safety knowledge of kindergarten teachers and alternative resolution method for young children's safety due to radioactive contamination.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.25-35
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• 2017

This study was carried out qualitative study to figure out the process of the perception of creativity conception by kindergarten teachers in Korea. The interviewees are 4 current teachers in kindergarten in Seoul. Data was collected from semi-structured in-depth interview. Collected data were analyzed using Modified Grounded Theory Approach by Kinoshita, a kind of qualitative research method. As a result of data analysis, kindergarten teachers who experts in child education understood key concepts of creativity as unique thinking and rich expression ability. Such concept is mainly acquired at the class in which direct encounter with children is made. Besides, they formed the concept of creativity through reading books and articles, graduate studies and teaching Nuri Curriculum. In the preceding studies on the concept of creativity targeted to elementary and secondary school teachers, they had shared wide concept, but kindergarten teachers shared only some key concepts on creativity. This result would mean that the concept of creativity in the early children education is relatively coherent and such concept and teaching method are relatively well delivered to children at the education field.