• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.535-552
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to investigate elementary school teachers' conceptions on the general remarks (GR) in the new science teacher's guide, the teachers' conceptions on inservice training program of the GR, and their opinions of improvement on the GR. Also, the teachers' utilization of the GR was examined. The participants were 152 elementary school teachers who were teaching grade 3~6. A questionnaire was used to collect data. The results of this study are as follows; First, at least 13.2~17.1% of the teachers did not have specific conception of the purpose of the GR, and more than 90% of the teachers expressed that the GR is necessary in the teachers' guide. Second, about 60% of the teachers responded that the training program on the GR is necessary, and when the program is open, their most favorite agency and speaker were a provincial education office and a textbook developer(or author), respectively. Their most favorite time and period of the training program were the vacation and 15~30 hours, respectively. Third, the mean values on the frequency of use were lower than 3 point of the five-point Likert scale at both the GR for grade 3~4 and the GR for grade 5~6, and the teachers' main use of the GR was the planning a science lesson for an open class. Fourth, the teachers suggested various opinions and there was difference between the opinions about the GR for grade 3~4 and the opinions about the GR for grade 5~6.

• 대한가정학회지
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.1-18
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• 1999

The purpose of the study was to specify the gender differences and the developmental changes of adolescents' self-esteem. The data was collected from 497 middle school students who were living at Pusan Korea through the questionnaire method by short-term longitudinal research design of 9 months interval. During the first datacollection session, May 1997, the participants completed the multidimensional self-esteem inventory that includes self-esteem dimensions such as home self, peer-related self, teacher-related self, academic-general self, physical-appearance self, physical-competence self and personality self. And during the second datacollection session, the participants completed the same questionnaires of the first session. The major findings of this study were as follows: First, the boy's self-esteem such dimensions of home self, teacher-related self, physical-appearance self, physical-competence self and personality self were significantly higher than those of girls. Second, the home self, peer-related self, teacher-related self, and academic-general self were decreased over time.

• 한국지구과학회지
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• 제31권5호
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• pp.488-499
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• 2010

In this research, we investigated the historical development and ways of improvement of the teacher employment test (TET, hereafter) in Korea. This paper consists of three parts. The first part details the secondary science teacher education system in Korea. The second part elaborates upon the development of the TET since 1990's. The third part provides conclusion by addressing ways to improve science teacher education and employment systems in Korea. After all, the keen competition for teacher education and the demanding entry test ensure that secondary science teachers are selected from a pool of candidates with high academic achievement. Korean teacher employment system in general places more weight on subject knowledge. Although we cannot simply conclude that Korean science teachers must have profound knowledge in the subject matter and are competent in pedagogy, it stands to reason that the teachers could be more competent in performing their roles than those of many western countries with an acute shortage of teachers. We also suggested future directions and ways of improvement regarding teacher education and the TET in Korea.

• 영어영문학
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• 제55권5호
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• pp.821-841
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• 2009

This paper explores the ways to reshape humanistic values of the curriculum of the English department of Korean universities. The English curricula are usually composed of three fields of literary studies, general education, and English proficiency, whose conventional humanistic values have been currently dwindling. As for literary studies, teaching literature still hovers over the canonical works of past decades, not allowing students to access the canon with their own ideas and ending up with authoritative monologues. The general education field leans toward edited texts rather than authentic ones, which ignores a genuine path of communication between the author and its readers. Subjects for English proficiency such as "TOEIC" tend to be taught online with no teacher's presence for the nominal purpose of optimizing economic efficiency in teaching. All these testify to the attenuation of humanistic values in the curriculum, which motivates us to suggest some ways to reshape the values. Authoritative monologue in teaching literature can be shifted to the open-ended conversation by using role-play methods as well as accepting extra-canonical works into the curriculum. Authentic texts for general education prove to be preferred by students with the successful result of our experiment. Lastly, it is teacher's presence in the class that helps get higher achievement of "TOEIC" than some online classes. As suggested above, open-ended conversation, wider communication between author and readers, and human presence of the class will help reshape humanistic values in the English curriculum.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.3982-3990
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• 2015

본 연구는 보육교사의 교사효능감의 정도를 알아보고 자아존중감과 직무스트레스가 교사효능감에 미치는 영향을 파악한 연구이다. 연구대상자는 G도에서 보육교사로 근무하는 280명을 대상으로 하였고, 자료분석은 SPSS WIN/21.0을 이용하여 평균과 표준편차, t-검정, 일원분산분석, 피어슨 상관계수, 다중회분귀분석을 사용하였다. 연구결과는 보육교사의 교사효능감은 $3.59{\pm}0.38$점으로 나타났다. 교사효능감은 연령(F=3.493, p=.016), 경력(F=5.654, p=.001), 직위(F=6.681, p<.001), 학급연령(F=2.759, p=.043), 자녀양육경험(t=5.269, p=.022)에서 유의한 차이를 나타냈다. 연구대상자의 교사효능감은 자아존중감과 순상관관계(r=.236, p<.001), 교사효능감과 직무스트레스는 역상관관계(-.251, p<.001)가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 교사효능감에 영향을 미치는 요인은 자아존중감과 직무스트레스로 확인되었고 이러한 요인들은 보육교사의 교사효능감을 11.7%로 설명하였다. 보육교사의 교사효능감을 높이기 위해 반복연구를 통하여 교사효능감에 영향을 미치는 요인을 확인하고, 교사효능감을 높일 수 있는 실제적인 중재들이 요구된다.

• 대한수학교육학회지:학교수학
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.415-433
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• 2002

The mathematics education community is seeking to change a teacher-centered class-room culture to a student-centered culture. However, the real transition is not easy, even for teachers who are eager and willing to teach differently. The challenge for teachers is to use the social structure of the classrooms to nurture students' development toward mathematical ways of thinking and communicating as well as their under-standing of mathematical concepts and processes. By introducing an elementary teacher's teaching practice and professional develop-ment along with her classroom episodes, this paper is to make strides toward an enriched understanding of the culture of the elementary mathematics classrooms in which students may have a lot of opportunities to develop conceptual under standing and math-ematical disposition. This paper first provides a detailed description of the classroom flow in terms of general social norms and sociomathematical norms in order to explore how the teacher and the students have established such a student-centered math-ematics microculture. This paper then analyzes the teacher's teaching approach and professional development.

• 한국생활과학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.377-387
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• 2008

The study is to research their parenting efficacy and parenting practices of a parent teacher as a volunteer(PTV) in the kindergarten. The subjects were mothers (N=127) in Choongbuk Province who had had volunteer education as a teacher assistant. The data were collected by their completing a questionnaire about Parenting efficacy and a Parent As A Teacher inventory (PAAT). The results include as follows: firstly, in PTV's parenting efficacy, 'the type of educational institution children are attending' is an important variable. Secondly, 'mother's educational background', 'father's educational background', and 'the type of educational institution children attending' are important variables in volunteer parents' parenting practices. Besides, 'mother's educational background' and 'participation motivation in volunteer activity' are important variables in parenting practices of 'control/permission' and of 'teaching/learning', and in general parenting practices. Finally, 'parenting efficacy', 'mother's educational background', and 'the sex of children' are important variables in volunteer teachers' parenting practices.

• 영어어문교육
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• 제3호
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• pp.71-93
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• 1997

Teachers' beliefs about teaching English are reflected in their practices in the classroom. They influence on the students' attitude to English learning. Any teacher training program expects the trainees to change or modify their existing beliefs and attitude through the new ideas and information introduced by the program toward a desired direction. The present study describes a teacher training program for elementary school English teachers and compares the beliefs of the teachers about teaching English before and after the training. The subjects are the elementary school English teachers around Chungnam area who get a special training of 120 hours during January 1997. The investigation of the subjects' beliefs on English teaching is conducted through examining two journals of each subject before and after the training. The journals show the teachers' inner flow of thought, so teacher trainers are expected to get insight on their general instructional considerations and have implications on the future teacher training program through examining these journals. In addition, the journal writing itself gives the teachers opportunity to reflect their practice and rethink about their beliefs, and develop themselves as professional English teachers.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈D:수학교육연구
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.309-330
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• 2009

The article aims to present findings of a study which has examined the ability of elementary school mathematics teachers and of teacher-trainees in other disciplines to solve irregular challenging problems of sequences in general rather than numerical sequences only. The findings show that mathematics teachers succeed to cope with unusual assignments when the requirements of the problems presented to them are analogous to irregular problems. However, when the problems require a change in the thinking procedure in the direction of creative thinking, there is a considerable decrease in performance. Another finding shows that, although teacher-trainees succeed less in solving the presented problems, they give incorrect solutions which do indicate creative thinking. An inevitable conclusion based on the research findings is that teacher training institutions should enhance and reinforce multi-directional. branching out and creative thinking competences.

• 영재교육연구
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.679-701
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• 2014

영재선발을 위한 교사 관찰 추천의 타당성 문제가 꾸준히 제기되고 있는 가운데, 이 연구는 과학영재 선발을 위한 교사 추천(지명)의 타당성을 분석하고자 하였다. 타당성의 준거변인으로 과학적 문제해결력, 과학적 태도와 같은 영역 특수적 변인과 확산적 사고, 창의적 인성, 내재적 동기, 리더십과 같은 영역 일반적 변인이 사용되었다. 현재 영재교육을 받고 있는 과학영재 학생, 영재교육을 받은 적은 없지만 교사에 의해 영재로 판단되어 추천된 잠재영재 학생, 그리고 일반학급의 학생들이 연구대상으로 참여하였다. 분산분석 결과, 창의적 문제해결력의 하위 변인인 독창성과 확산적 사고의 하위 변인인 유창성과 독창성을 제외한 모든 변인에서 영재학생/추천학생과 일반학생 간에 유의한 차이가 발견되었다. 즉, 영재학생/추천학생은 이들 변인에서 일반학생보다 우수한 것으로 나타났다. 판별분석 결과, 영재학생/추천학생을 일반학생과 유의하게 판별해주는 함수가 도출되었으며, 판별함수에 부하된 변인은 독창성을 제외한 과학 창의적 문제해결력과 과학효능감으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 교사가 과학영재 학생을 추천할 때 논리적 사고나 문제해결력, 과학수행, 그리고 이로 인해 강화되는 과학효능감과 같이 보다 '적응' 지향적인 학문적 탁월성을 고려하는 반면, 다양한 새로운 반응들을 신속하게 생성해내는 '혁신' 지향적인 속성(유창성이나 독창성으로 나타나는)은 덜 고려한다는 것을 말해준다. 또한 교사추천의 기준은 학문적 탁월성을 지향하는 과학영재교육기관의 선발기준과도 부합하며, 이러한 기준으로 영재를 판별할 때는 교사추천만으로도 영재판별이 가능함을 시사한다.