현장교육실습 기간 중 특수교육전공 교육실습생들의 주된 경험에 관한 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate major experiences of practice teachers during a 4 week's teaching practicum for senior students in an university training future special education teachers, so that it may provide information to train excellent teachers. For this purpose, 39 senior students in the department of elementary special education at an university located in Gyeongnam province were asked to write an informal practice journal during the month of May when they experienced the teaching practicum, and the data from the journals were analyzed interpretatively. The results were as follows. The practice teachers experience about class teaching and behavior modification during the teaching practicum. Detailed experiences regarding class teaching included motivation, introductory remarks, dividing teaching time, deriving student's participation, and open classes. Experience about behavior modification were method of using behavior modification and skepticism of in-service teacher's use of behavior modification. The results of this study inform us that the experiences of practice teachers not only provide a chance to reflect on teaching profession and teacher's qualification, but it also has adverse effect of focusing on the gap between the theory and practice and of acting negatively on their own ability. The present study implies that the ways should be sought to maximize the positive functions, and to minimize the negative functions of, teaching practicum, on the bases of the worries of practice teachers. It also implies that it is necessary to select practice teaching schools in advance and make close relationships with them and to include advance preparation and ex post education in the curriculum of teaching practice