• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.171-182
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• 2005

The purpose of this study is to develop the Checklist for Observing and Analytical Framwork that assesses a series of activities related to the classroom teaching which is the core of teachers' professionalism. In clarifying the objectives of observing the classroom activities, it would be effective to understand the overall outline of the home economics instructions as well as to define the elements of the classroom work ; hence, the classroom work has been modularized in several stages, namely, planning/organization, execution, and evaluation. The stages are divided into nine elements of the classroom work in general : (1) Presenting the study objective, (2) Structuring classroom activities, (3) Teaching the content, (4) Question-and-answers (5) Feedback the to the students' responses, (6) Offering learning opportunities, (7) Stimulating the students' interest, (8) Evaluation, (9) Applying the result of the evaluation.

• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.17 no.4 s.38
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• pp.87-100
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• 2005

The Purpose of this study is to understand on the whole trend in the home economics instructions among the middle school. The study has been achieved through observing the actual classroom activities, and stating the results as objective as possible. In as much as clarifying the objectives of observing the classroom activities, it would be deemed effective to understand the overall outline of the home economics instructions, as well as to define the elements that make up the classroom work. Hence, the classroom work has been modularized in stage, namely. planning/organization, execution, and evaluation, as well as extracting nine(9) elements of the classroom work. Video-taped classroom activities, which have been used for this research analysis, consists of twelve(12) study classes, covering the subjects in food/nutrition, clothing, household management, daily life as a consumer, and housing management. The items in the study the items of checklist have been broken down further in an effort to develop a framework for analyzing the results of observing the classroom activities. Also included, in part, is the verbatim transcription of the videotaped classroom activities in progress.