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Exploration Factors Affecting Maintenance of the Effect of Mentoring for Beginning Science Teachers

초임 과학 교사에 대한 멘토링 효과 지속에 영향을 미치는 요인 탐색

  • Received : 2020.06.26
  • Accepted : 2020.09.08
  • Published : 2020.12.20
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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors that affect the maintenance of the effect of mentoring for beginning science teachers. Mentee teachers for this study were ten mentee teachers who took part in the collaborative mentoring from 2014 to 2018. For this study, the videos of the first and fifth classes submitted during the mentoring program, mentors and mentees' journals, the videos of the classes recorded in 2019, questionnaires about reflection on the mentoring program, and interview materials were collected and analyzed. The result of this study is as follows. First, the reflective thinking was sustained after the mentoring program, and this played a crucial role in maintaining the effects of the mentoring. The group that showed the improvement of RTOP score had reflective thinking and made reflective practice on their teaching. Most participants in the group created the classes of constructivism based on self-reflection on their classes. However, no positive changes in the classes occurred to mentee teachers who couldn't have reflective thinking. Second, reflective practices during the mentoring program exerted a strong influence on the teaching method of mentee teachers. The group of the improvement in RTOP score strived to apply student-centered model of instruction to their classes. It was showed that most mentee teachers in the group kept applying the student-centered model to their classes after the mentoring was completed. These results indicate reflective thinking and reflective practice are crucial factors to the effect of the mentoring and its maintenance.

이 연구에서는 초임 중등 과학 교사의 멘토링 효과의 지속에 영향을 주는 요인을 알아보고자 하였다. 이 연구에 참여한 초임 과학 교사인 멘티 교사는 2014년부터 2018년까지 협력적 멘토링에 참여하였던 멘티 교사 10명이고, 멘토링 진행 당시 제출하였던 1차시 및 5차시 수업 동영상, 멘티 및 멘토 저널, 2019년도에 촬영한 수업 동영상, 멘토링 프로그램 반성 설문지, 인터뷰 자료를 수집하여 분석하였다. 이 연구로부터 얻은 결론은 다음과 같다. 첫째 멘토링에서 경험한 멘티 교사의 반성적 사고의 경험은 멘토링 이후에도 지속되었으며, 이는 멘토링 효과의 지속에 결정적인 역할을 하였다. 멘토링 당시 RTOP 점수의 상승이 있었던 그룹의 경우 반성적 사고와 반성적 실천이 나타났으며, 이들 대부분은 멘토링 이후에도 여전히 자신의 수업에 대한 반성을 바탕으로 구성주의에 기반한 수업을 하는 것으로 나타났다. 반면 멘토링 당시 반성적 사고가 일어나지 않았던 멘티 교사의 경우 긍정적인 수업의 변화가 나타나지 않았다. 둘째 멘토링에서의 반성적 실천은 이후 멘티 교사의 교수학습 방식에 영향을 미쳤다. 멘토링 당시 RTOP 점수의 상승이 있었던 그룹의 경우 멘토링 프로그램에서 배운 학생 중심 수업 모형을 자신의 수업에 적용하기 위해서 노력하였으며, 이 그룹에 속한 대부분의 멘티 교사들이 멘토링이 종료된 이후에도 그 학습 모형을 이용하여 수업하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 이와 같은 결과로 볼 때, 반성적 사고와 반성적 실천이 멘토링 효과를 결정하는 핵심적인 요소가 될 뿐만 아니라, 멘토링 효과의 지속을 결정하는 요소라는 것을 알 수 있다.

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Publication cost of this paper was supported by the Korean Chemical Society.

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