• Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.127-146
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• 2015

This study is to examine the metaphor of pre-service early childhood teachers for the children with disabilities through the disability studies perspective. For this purpose, 213 pre-service early childhood teachers who were the students of universities in Busan and Gyeongnam area were selected as target objects, and data were collected from Sep. 15 to 29, 2015. The collected data were categorized and quantified based on the systematic metaphor analysis. As a result, the metaphor for the children with disabilities of pre-service early childhood teachers were categorized into 4 types such as medicine-limit type, medicine-diversity type, society-limit type and society-diversity. The result of this study would be utilized as basic data required for consideration with regard to the direction of integrated education and for increasing the professional speciality of teachers who perform the integrated education in the training course for pre-service early childhood teachers.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.1058-1068
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• 2013

The purpose of this study was to examine how participation in R-Learning university club management program affects to R-Learning professionalism of pre-teachers in field of early childhood education related to knowledge, function, and attitude. Upon investigation for knowledge part, those answers: 'I know the role of teachers when education based on robot, 'I know how much education based on robot affects to development of early childhood', and 'I know the necessary of education based on robot' appear highly. 'I can give lessons by connecting robot and computer' for function part, and 'I think using robot for class positively' for attitude part show highly. Also, professionalism of the pre-teachers improved after participating in R-running club, especially, function and attitude part. Thus, R-Learning university club management program is effective by the research.

• Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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• v.40 no.3
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• pp.407-419
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• 2021

This study investigated the perception of science philosophy education targeting 150 elementary school teachers in metropolitan cities and provinces. The questionnaire survey on the perception of the philosophy of science education was composed of a 5-point Likert scale based on the interest and experience of the philosophy of science, the reason for difficulty in using it, and the introduction method, the expected effect. As a result of the survey, elementary school teachers' awareness of the interest and necessity of the philosophy of science was generally high, while the experience of learning and teaching the philosophy of science was low. In addition, to the reason why it was difficult to utilize the philosophy of science, teachers answered that there was insufficient teacher training and development of teaching and learning methods. As a way to introduce the philosophy of science in science education, it was thought that it was necessary to combine the concept learning and inquiry method, and elementary school teachers' perception of the expected effect of using the philosophy of science was generally high. The results of this study are meaningful in that they provide basic data on the direction of the introduction of the philosophy of science in elementary science education.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.587-598
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• 2018

In this study, we investigated the characteristics of pre-service science teachers' curriculum design for lessons using self-generated analogy. Three pre-service science teachers at a college of education in Seoul participated in this study. After a workshop on lessons using self-generated analogy, they planned and demonstrated lessons. All of the teaching-learning materials were collected, and their lessons were observed and videotaped. Semi-structured interviews were also conducted before and after their lessons. The characteristics of lessons using self-generated analogy were analyzed in the perspectives of PCK. The analyses of the results revealed that they used various strategies to promote students' generating analogies. They lacked understanding of the stages of the lessons and the role of teachers. Although all of them considered assessment, they used limited assessment methods and assessment dimensions. Some actively considered students' misconceptions, and specifically anticipated analogies that students could generate. They determined topics for lessons considering various aspects such as the level of self-generated analogy and the characteristics of scientific conceptions. On the bases of the results, we suggest some educational implications for pre-service science teacher education.

• Journal of the Korean earth science society
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.334-345
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to find out inservice teachers' teaching skills and relevant educational settings that could be applied to an instruction of problem-based learning (PBL). Participants have been instructed PBL teacher training programs and applied PBL into teaching and learning process. Three elementary teachers were selected to participate in the study, and data were collected with semi-structured interviews. The interviews of the teachers in relation to PBL were analyzed by two main topics: (1) the teachers' teaching skills required in PBL and (2) the educational settings in implementing PBL. The results are as follows: First, there is a difficulty involved in the implementation of PBL in that its preparation and teaching process are different from the traditional teaching methodology. However, as a helper who guides the students to self-directed learning in the free and permissible learning environment in which students are motivated to develop their potential effectively, the teachers are to invest their time consistently and to put their efforts into making an effective class in the entire process of PBL. Second, as a method to apply the problem-based learning to the education settings, the teachers must spread the awareness of PBL to fellow teachers, students, their parents and the administrators in education and form the community of the teachers. Most importantly, when the teachers apply PBL in the directly, from the joy of witnessing the changes in the students, they will choose to adopt PBL.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.557-564
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to examine the problems in the teaching practice of beginning science teachers who participated in the collaborative mentoring program to improve their teaching expertise. The participants were six beginning science teachers and six mentors at middle and high school levels. From each beginning science teacher and mentor teacher, journals, one-to-one mentoring records and transcripts, interviews and questionnaires, and transcripts conducted at the beginning, middle and the end of the mentoring program were collected. Seven aspects of the beginning science teachers' problems in their teaching practice were identified. The result showed that mentee teachers didn't set up specific learning objectives and they organized and presented lesson contents without considering students' proficiency level. Also, they found it hard to prepare for the lessons irrelevant to their major field of study and they tended to use convergent questions more than divergent questions. Mentee teachers tend to give teacher-centered rather than student-centered teaching. Beginning teachers' recognition of their problems in their teaching practice tends to lead changes in their teaching practice. Some of the problems that mentee teachers showed could be overcome if they recognized the problem through the collaborative mentoring program, but if not, it tends to remain throughout mentoring program.This study also highlighted the importance of reflection on beginning science teachers' practice.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.43 no.6
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• pp.533-547
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• 2023

This study is an action research aimed at improving the instruction of a teacher educator who teaches science teaching methods to elementary preservice teachers. After identifying the cause of their low levels of curiosity and interest in physics, teaching plans addressing this problem were explored, applied to classes, and reflected upon. Through this process, ways to improve teaching practice in science classes for elementary preservice teachers and pique their scientific curiosity and interest were proposed. A spiral implementation structure that repeats implementation and reflection a total of three times was designed for the prospective preservice teachers who participated in elementary science textbook research physics classes. Self-reports, student participation data, and results from both peer and self-evaluations were collected and analyzed. The reasons for the preservice teachers' low levels of curiosity and interest in science were identified as their inability to recognize and express information gaps and their low levels of willingness to resolve this. Practice expressing information gaps, raising the level of knowledge to be able to recognize information gaps, and a strategy to have the will to resolve information gaps were introduced into the class. To the extent that changes can be made by improving unit classes, elementary preservice teachers can express their curiosity and interest in science through this process.

• Journal of Science Education
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• v.47 no.3
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• pp.263-272
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• 2023

We consider how a pre-service teacher can understand and utilize various concepts of Euclidean geometry by learning conic sections using mathematical definitions in non-Euclidean geometry. In a third-grade class of D University, we used mathematical definitions to demonstrate that learning conic sections in non-Euclidean space, such as taxicab geometry and Minkowski distance space, can aid pre-service teachers by enhancing their ability to acquire and accept new geometric concepts. As a result, learning conic sections using mathematical definitions in taxicab geometry and Minkowski distance space is expected to contribute to enhancing the education of pre-service teachers for Euclidean geometry expertise by fostering creative and flexible thinking.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.934-938
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• 2000

인터넷 웹 기반 교수-학습체제는 학습자 위주의 교육환경으로 변화하였고, 웹 환경에서도 학습자에게는 시간과 공간의 제약에서 벗어나 다양한 교육정보를 접할 수 있는 원격교육시스템이 대두하고 있다. 인터넷의 발달은 교육환경에도 많은 변화를 가져오고 있다. 이러한 변화는 인터넷을 이용한 웹기반 원격교육이 여러 분야에서 폭넓게 응용되고 있음을 대변하는 것이라 할 수 있다. 하지만 기존의 원격강의시스템의 경우 교사가 학습할 내용들을 파일형태로 업로드해 놓으면 학습자가 다운로드하여 쓰는 방식이어서 많은 전송비용과 강의내용 구성이 단순한 텍스트 위주의 형태로 구성되어 학습자의 학습효과가 의문시 되었다. 이는 학습자 위주의 자기 주도학습에 많은 어려움을 유발시켰다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 고등학교 정보산업교과의 [인터넷] 단원에 대한 학습을 체계적으로 언제 어디서나 학습할 수 있도록 이론과 실기강의내용을 웹을 통하여 교육에서 요구되는 음성과 교재 판서의 기능을 웹상에서 구현할 수 있도록 되어 있다. 이런 멀티미디어 자료들이 동기화되어 자기 주도적 학습을 할 수 있는 멀티미디어 원격강의시스템을 구현하였다. 본 연구의 원격강의시스템은 멀티미디어자료 들을 활용한 원격강의시스템이기 때문에 개별화된 교육과 자기 주도적 학습을 통해 시ㆍ공간의 제약을 받지 않고 학습 할 수있는 진정한 원격강의시스템이다.

• Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.111-122
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• 2005

The goal of this study was to investigate the differences in the effect of feedback from different providers on elementary school students' science achievement and to examine the responses of the students regarding the feedback. Three 6th grade classes were chosen to be assigned as experimental group 1, experimental group 2, and control group, respectively. In experimental group 1, the teacher provided feedback with students concerning the formative evaluations which were conducted periodically. Experimental group 2 was the one in which students were organized into small groups to compose and exchange feedback with one another. No feedback was of offered to students in the control group. The results of the science achievement test indicated ,that the provision of feedback by the teacher resulted in more gains in student academic achievement. The interviews with students revealed that the learners made positive responses to the feedback provided by the teacher while they showed negative attitudes toward the feedback exchange among students. There were also differences in student responses to feedback between high and low achievers in science. Implications for science lessons and science education research were presented and discussed.