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Critical Views of Qualification Studies and Pre-Exams for 2009 Korea School Math Teacher Appointment-Proportion of Issued Problems of Probability and Statistics

  • Lee, Sang-Bock
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.845-849
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    • 2008
  • 2009 year new execution of appointments for secondary school teachers was announced at 2004 year by Ministry of Education. The new school teacher appointment has been developed and studied in various aspects of appropriate qualification for good school teacher. In the results of the studies by Korea School Mathematics Education Association and pre-exams by Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation, the Probability and Statistics chapters are less revaluated as 7.5-10%, but we argue those more than 15% as along with our recent Korean school texts reviews(Lee, et al., 2005).

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A Study on the Revision of Teacher Education System and Survey of the Teaching Competency of Teacher Librarian (사서교사의 교수역량 조사와 양성제도 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Byeong-Ki
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.39 no.1
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    • pp.51-72
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the teaching competency level of professor and to suppose the strategies and policy issues for improving teacher librarian education system in Korea. This study was carried out to measure teaching competency of teacher librarian. This study participated by 120 elementary schools and secondary teacher librarian. The questionnaire consisted of 52 items for measuring teaching competencies of teacher librarian divided into nine area competencies. Based on the analysis results of this study, It was suggested the revision strategies of teacher education system.

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Training System of Environment Education Teacher : Problem and Prospect (환경교육 담당자 양성 체제의 개선)

  • 최운식
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.14-22
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    • 2000
  • This attempts to find out training system of environment education teacher in Korea. The results are summarized as follows. The primary and secondary school have focused on environment education and the environment course was designated as a subject, but only 12% of the 2741 middle school chose the environment subject in 1998. The environment education course is not popular among students. The environment education is an interdisciplinary subject, which is composed of natural science, social studies, earth science, and medical science, that is why the subject is so unsystematic and complicated that appropriate teaching methods and contents for school classes are not able to be developed. Moreover, material and manuals in environment education for students and teachers are limited. While the contents of environment education is composed of field experience learning and experiment learning, but lecture-centered instruction is emphasized in school because of materials, time and experts. Over 300 environmental education teachers are annually produced, but the ratio of employment low. is, Therefore, a retraining program for environment education teacher needs to be developed.

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A Study on the 'Information and the Library' Curriculum and the Roles of Teacher-Librarians ('정보와 도서관' 교육과정과 사서교사 역할에 관한 연구)

  • Hahm, Myung-Sik
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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    • v.42 no.3
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    • pp.169-188
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    • 2008
  • This thesis presents the 'Information and the Library' curriculum and the roles of teacher-librarians. Related to 'The School Library Promotion Law', this thesis presents the effects teacher-librarians instruct 'Information and the Library' curriculum to the school libraries, and the challenges related to this curriculum. This thesis contains the role and work of three kinds of staff in the school library. implementation of primary and secondary 'Information and the Library' curriculum for information literacy instruction in the school libraries, the effects by 'Information and the Library' curriculum. and challenges of 'Information and the Library' curriculum. Conclusively, teacher-librarians should accomplish their own instructional activities with 'Information and the Library' curriculum in the school curricula as differentiated work from librarians.

Science Teacher Education in Hong Kong

  • Yip, Din-Yan
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.22 no.5
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    • pp.1044-1070
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    • 2002
  • Initial science teacher education in Hong Kong is provided by the Post-graduate Diploma in Education Programme (PGDE) for both pre-service and in-service secondary school teachers. This programme includes a balanced treatment of subject curriculum and teaching in science, general pedagogical knowledge and skills, educational psychology and school administration. The science courses in this programme also have some units that equip science teachers with the knowledge and skills that are essential for teaching a science curriculum that emphasises conceptual change and understanding of the nature and methods of science. This emphasis is illustrated by two studies: (1) Developing a conceptual change model of instruction in Biology teachers, and (2) Constructing understanding of the nature and methods of science.

An Exploratory Analysis of Discourse Types and Meaning-making Strategies Used by a Beginning Teacher in Secondary Science Class (담화양상과 의미형성전략에 관한 초임 교사의 중등 과학수업 사례 탐색)

  • Kim, Hye-Ree;Lee, Sun-Kyung;Kim, Chan-Jong
    • Journal of the Korean earth science society
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    • v.31 no.6
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    • pp.647-655
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    • 2010
  • This study analyzed discourse types and meaning making strategies used in a secondary beginning science teacher's class. A voluntary middle school science teacher participated in this study, and her instruction was observed and videotaped. The analysis consisted of two parts. First, we categorized the types of discourses occurred in class. Second, we examined her instructional strategies used through meaning making practices at the micro-level. Results indicated that there were five episodes emerged representing different discourse types and meaning making strategies in the beginning teacher's lesson about 'the pathway and property of light'. Conclusion and implications for further study and teacher professional development were presented in the paper.

Analysis of Elementary and Secondary School Teachers' Recognition about Engineering Education in Elementary and Secondary School (초.중등학교 교사의 초.중등 공학교육에 대한 인식 분석)

  • Kim, Young Min;Huh, Hye Yeon;Lee, Chang Hoon;Kim, Ki Soo
    • Journal of Engineering Education Research
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.9-17
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    • 2013
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze elementary and secondary school teachers' recognition about engineering education in elementary and secondary school. For this, we surveyed elementary and secondary school teachers. The result of this study is as follow. First, most teachers perceived that engineering positively affect national competitiveness and development. They also found that engineering education helps student to select natural science and engineering field career. Moreover, they perceived that engineering contents are not applied in elementary and secondary schools curriculums, hence it does not stimulate interest in engineering. Therefore, they perceived that if engineering education contents are systematically applied in formal curriculum, it will have a positive effect on current engineering education. Second, most teachers perceived that roles of engineering education are to make students learn creative design and problem solving process and inform about the engineering field career. They perceived that the best grade to start engineering education is 4~6 grade in elementary school and the best way to apply engineering education is through distributing engineering education contents to related subjects. They also perceived that technology subject has the most relation to engineering education and science subjects; mathematics subject follow after.

$7^{th}-12^{th}$ Grade Students, Pre-service Teachers and Science Teachers' Views on the Dissolution of Salt in a Liquid

  • Won, Jeong-Ae;Kang, Dae-Hun;Paik, Seoung-Hey
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.187-196
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    • 2008
  • In this study, a survey was conducted of students in grades 7 through 12, student teachers enrolled in their senior year at teachers' colleges, and science teachers. Subjects were surveyed on their conceptions of phenomenon related with dissolution, saturation, and extraction. The models and analogies used by student teachers and science teachers to explain dissolution were sought. The highest percentage of students thought of dissolution as a phenomenon in which particles broke into the spaces between other particles. The models or analogies used by the highest percentage of science teachers were similar. They generally conceived of dissolution phenomenon through what we call the 'space conception'. A conception of dissolution phenomenon as 'hydration through attraction of solvent and solute' was held by more student teachers than science teachers; there were some differences, however, according to their academic background. The percentage of teachers professing this view decreased when they attempted to explain the process of extraction of matter in a solution after other matter had dissolved or after the solution was cooled, indicating that the 'hydration' conception was not firmly established in the student teachers' cognition. Therefore, it can be inferred that the conceptions of dissolution as 'hydration' were transformed into the conceptions of dissolution as 'space' after teaching dissolution phenomenon as practicing teachers. This finding should be considered in teacher-training courses.

Analysis of Preferences and Reality for Teacher-Student Interaction in Secondary School Science Classroom

  • Seo, Kyoung-Hee;Lim, Soo-Min;Park, Min-Jung;Sonn, Jong Kyung;Kim, Youngshin
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.32 no.9
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    • pp.1391-1404
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    • 2012
  • This study was conducted for the purpose of analyzing the teachers' and students' preferences and reality with regard to their interaction in secondary school science classes. The subjects of this study were 180 teachers and 1,389 students. The contents of the questionnaire for the teachers included the quality of the personal relationships between the teachers and students as well as the teachers' recognition of teaching activities, and the questionnaire for the students dealt with the quality of the personal relationships between the teachers and students as well as the students' perceptions of their classes. The questionnaire responses were divided into preferences and reality for the research. The results are as follows. First, the levels of the teachers' and students' perceptions of their interaction were significantly lower (p<0.05) compared to their preferences with regard to such. Second, the female teachers showed higher levels of preferences and reality compared to the male teachers in the case of the teacher variables, and the middle school teachers showed higher levels of preferences and reality compared to the high school teachers. Third, the male students showed a higher perception level compared to the female students, and both the preferences and reality levels of the middle school students were significantly higher (p<0.05) than those of the high school students. In addition, the level of interaction was lower in big cities than in small cities. Fourth, there was a significant difference between the levels of the teachers' and students' preferences and reality with regard to their interaction.

Analyses of the Process of Coteaching Instruction in Secondary School Science (중등 과학에서의 코티칭 수업 과정 분석)

  • Han, JaeYoung;Yoon, Jihyun
    • Journal of Science Education
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.152-163
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    • 2009
  • This study aims to describe, explain, and understand the process of coteaching instruction in which two pre-service science teachers plan, perform, and reflect the instruction in a university lecture. Pre-service science teachers exchanged their perspectives on teaching, selected the learning model and the science content to teach, and prepared the teaching material together. They performed the coteaching using the lecture room effectively and exchanging the role of leading the instruction. The professor and other pre-service science teachers participated to the coteaching instruction directly or indirectly with the role of students or lesson critics, and shared the evaluation and reflection on the instruction. We discussed the meaning and implication of the coteaching instruction on the secondary education field, the science teacher education, and the science education.

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