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A Survey on Health Promotion Programs and Needs in Schools (학교 건강증진 프로그램 실시 현황 및 건강증진 프로그램 요구에 관한 조사연구)

  • Kim , Young-Im;Lee, Kyu-Young;Park, Eun-Ok
    • Journal of the Korean Society of School Health
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2005
  • Purposes: This study was designed to survey current and past health promotion programs in schools and to assess the needs of health promotion programs based upon the opinions of health teachers. Methods: Self-report questionnaire were given to health teachers who attended board meetings in each province or who participated in a qualification training course in Daegu. The questionnaire was developed by authors and revised it based on experts' advice. Results: The most common health promotion programs were sexual education, sexual violence prevention, drug abuse prevention, first aid,dental health. In contrast, many mental health promotion programs, such as suicide prevention, ADHD, and those involving personality disorders were all relatively uncommon. The needs of health promotion programs showed almost same priority with health promotion programs that are being done. Conclusions: The development of effective health promotion programs requires input from students, parents, teachers, experts, and health teachers.

Development of Copyright Education Program for the Infant and Child Teachers (영유아 교원을 위한 저작권 교육 프로그램 개발)

  • Oh, Eun-Soon;Lee, So-Hyun
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.659-669
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    • 2017
  • The purpose of this study is to develop a copyright education program for the directors and teachers in kindergartens and day care centers. In this study, these programs were developed based on the actual situation of knowledge, copyright education requirements, and professional opinions. In this way, a copyright education programs were designed. Through the program, the directors and teachers were trained on the subject. Then, the overall evaluation was carried out through an open questionnaire and in-depth interview. Through this evaluation, the program was modified. These programs were made up of education purposes, education objectives, education contents, education methods, operating methods, and education evaluation. Education content was intended to be educated through examples from kindergartens and day care centers.

Effects of Ongoing Feedback on Students' Attitudes towards Writing

  • Yang, Tae-Sun
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.171-188
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of ongoing feedback from the professor in students' processes of learning and developing writing skills. Specifically, the researcher was concerned with how ongoing feedback affected students' attitudes towards writing because in EFL contexts, motivating students to write is a first step to engage them in a challenging journey of academic writing. 20 freshmen taking a writing course, "Paragraph & Essay Writing", at A university participated in this study and they were asked to complete the questionnaire at the end of the spring semester 2009. The results revealed that receiving ongoing feedback from the professor had a positive influence on affective domain, was helpful to develop learning strategies, and was valuable in learning outcomes. However, they also expressed negative opinions: feeling a burden, focusing on forms, and feeling confused. To reflect their opinions, the following four suggestions were made to create a more effective learning environment: promoting learner autonomy, facilitating individual writing conferences, giving balanced feedback in between form and content, and using judicious feedback through careful streaming.

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Study of a Reflective Teacher Education Plan through Survey of Experienced Korean Language Teachers: Focusing on the Area of Teaching Professionalism (한국어 경력교사 대상 요구조사를 통한 성찰적 교사교육 방안 모색 -수업 전문성 영역을 중심으로-)

  • Lee, Sunyoung
    • Journal of Korean language education
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.109-137
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of teacher education is to improve the professionalism of teachers above the current level. The type of teacher education to improve the professionalism of experienced teachers is broadly divided into top-down education and bottom-up education. So far, studies on top-down education were commonly conducted in the field of Korean language education. However, there has been an increasing number of studies emphasizing the need for bottom-up education, driven by the voluntary participation of teachers in recent years. The purpose of this study is to suggest the direction of reflective teacher education for experienced Korean language teachers. For this purpose, a survey was conducted of 71 Korean language teachers who had more than 5 years of experience. The contents of the survey consisted of opinions regarding existing teacher education, the need for reflective teacher education, and the perception of teaching professionalism. The results showed that experienced Korean language teachers had a positive perception of the existing teacher re-education experience. Also, 91% of the respondents said they intend to participate in the reflective teacher education program. In particular, respondents showed high demands for 'peer coaching', 'peer observation', and 'teaching portfolios' among reflective teacher education programs. Lastly, many respondents selected 'development and utilization of teaching materials', 'encouraging learner's utterances', and 'leading learner's interest and motivation' as sub-elements of teaching professionalism that they wish to improve through teacher re-education.

Elementary School Teachers' Perception of New Informatics Subject according to Computing Competency

  • Mi-Young Ryu;Seon Kwan Han
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.28 no.11
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    • pp.245-252
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    • 2023
  • In this study, we analyzed elementary school teachers' perception and method of establishing a new subject according to their computing competency. First, we developed a survey on the need to establish a new elementary school informatics. We also collected data from 166 elementary school teachers. As a result of the analysis, opinions differed on the establishment of information subjects depending on teachers' computing competencies. Teachers also showed differences in the characteristics of their subjects, number of class hours, and methods of organizing classes. As the results, we found that in order to establish a new information subject, a plan must be prepared to raise awareness and the need for informatics subjects among teachers who have low computing compency or no major in computer-related fields. We hope that many elementary school teachers will recognize the necessity and importance of establishing a new information subject.

Student Perceptions of Different Feedback Givers' Written Responses

  • Kim, Jeong-Ok
    • English Language & Literature Teaching
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.45-68
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    • 2012
  • This study aims to investigate the different opinions about feedback given to high level Middle School students about their writing.18 students in the Gifted Program participated in the study. They were divided into three groups through their presurvey answers according to their language learning opportunities and genders. Students language self-assessment was compared with achievement as well. Three times of students' written work were collected. They then received feedback from the teacher and their two peers respectively. With the teachers' and peers' feedback, they completed their final draft. The study then examines how much the students take feedback practically from the different feedback givers. Examples of formative and corrective feedback were arranged to find out the differences in the students practice when giving and taking feedback. These Gifted class students showed that they didn't care much about who gave them the feedback, instead they cared more about how much language competence they presumed the feedback giver had. Implications of the findings are discussed and future study is suggested.

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What Makes Korea-Israel Science Teachers Inservice Program for Fostering Learners' Creativity Effective? (창의성 계발 과학교육을 위한 한국 - 이스라엘 과학교사 연수프로그램의 효율성)

  • Seo, Hae-Ae;Yoon, Ki-Soon;Kwon, Duck-Kee;Song, Bang-Ho
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.24 no.2
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    • pp.343-356
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    • 2004
  • The study aimed to assess the effectiveness of Korea-Israel science teachers inservice program. Thirty science teachers who participated in the inservice program responded to pre- and post tests of the survey instrument on (a) their perceptions to creativity fostering science education and understandings of current education status and reform movement, (b) degrees of changes about understanding of creativity and implementing teaching methods for fostering creativity before and after the program, and (c) their evaluative opinions on the program. Suggestions for improving the program were proposed as follows: First, a pre-service workshop for the program should be provided in order to clearly realize the essential purpose of the program through increase of participating teachers' understanding of facing conditions of education, school policy, reform movement toward science education fostering creativity. Second, for the content of the program, creativity is more emphasized. Appropriate content and sufficient time arrangement for creativity will develop teachers' conceptual understanding of creativity in depth. Third, classroom observation of exemplary science teaching for fostering creativity should be sufficiently arranged. Fourth, amount of content and time allotment to Israel culture, religion, and education system should be reduced.

The Effect of Kindergarten Teacher's Empathy Ability on Job Stress through Positive Psychological Capital (유치원 교사의 공감 능력이 긍정심리자본을 통해 직무 스트레스에 미치는 영향)

  • Ji, Mi-Sun;Lee, Sin-Bok
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.240-255
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    • 2021
  • The kindergarten teachers play a role in closely babysitting infants, teachers' high empathy helps respect infants' emotions and opinions, and leads to positive relationships, ultimately improving their job satisfaction and confidence, but lack specific research results. As a result, this study sought to find out how the empathy of kindergarten teachers affects job stress through positive psychological capital, and to find ways to increase positive psychological capital and empathy. To achieve this, the research method identified the causal relationship of each variable based on the results of the survey of 212 kindergarten teachers in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province. According to the study, first, among the empathy abilities of kindergarten teachers, emotional empathy has a positive impact on all factors of positive psychological capital. Second, cognitive empathy among empathy abilities has a positive impact on all factors of positive psychological capital. Third, looking at the overall positive psychological capital of kindergarten teachers and the effects of job stress showed that it negatively affects self-efficacy and resilience.

The Effects of the Abduction Viewpoint on Science Teachers' Thoughts Related to Hypotheses and Laws in Ninth Grade 'Construction of Matter' and 'Rules of Matter Change' Chapters (중학교 3학년 '물질의 구성' 및 '물질 변화에서의 규칙성' 단원의 가설과 법칙에 대한 귀추적 관점이 과학 교사들의 사고에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Jun-Ye;Paik, Seoung-Hey
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.10-21
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this research was to investigate science teachers' thoughts about hypotheses and rules related to the contents of ninth grade 'Construction of Matter' and 'Rules of Matter Change' chapters. The changes of their thoughts through experience of the abduction viewpoint were also analyzed. Twenty-two science teachers in the masters course took lessons and discussions related to the abduction viewpoint in the course of three weeks. The changes in thought of four teachers selected among them were investigated through individual interviews and their reports. From the investigation, it was found that the two teachers who had not recognized the problems of textbook content order could distinguish rules and hypotheses after the lessons and discussions. The two teachers who had recognized the problems before the lessons gained the abduction viewpoint through the lessons. They also recognized new opinions related to teaching styles for students and the meaning of the abduction viewpoint on education.

Analysis of the Types of Images Early Childhood Teachers have about Kindergarten Teachers : Employing Q-methodological Approach (유아교사의 보육교사에 대한 이미지 유형 분석 : Q-방법론적 접근)

  • Kim, Byung Man;Kim, Mi Jin
    • Korean Journal of Childcare and Education
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.239-262
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    • 2013
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the types of image that early childhood teachers have about nursery teachers in detail in an effort to provide some information on how to build an ideal image of a nursery teacher. Another goal was to determine the right directions for teacher education based on the subjective opinions of early childhood teachers, which has not been covered in earlier studies. The Q-methodology was utilized to determine the awareness of early childhood teachers about the types of the images of nursery teachers and each type's characteristics. A Q-population was constituted by 310 types of images based on the results of earlier studies about the images of nursery teachers, and 48 Q-samples were selected according to frequency. And then 20 nursery teachers and 20 kindergarten teachers were asked to classify the images of nursery teachers in nine stages by using the Q-sort, and the data were analyzed by the statistical package PASW 18.0. As a result, four different types of images appeared that the early childhood teachers had about nursery teachers, and the images were respectively named 'a practical-teaching-oriented type of teacher', 'a negative-system critical type of teacher', 'a positive-humanistic type of teacher' and 'a neutral-emotionally type of teacher'.