영재교육 담당 교원의 핵심역량에 대한 전문가 집단과 영재교육담당교원 간의 인식 비교

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to compare and analyze the difference in awareness between professionals(36) and the teachers(120) of the gifted regarding core competence composing professionalism of the teachers of the gifted, evaluate the importance there of, and draw educational its implications. To achieve agreement with professionals and draw the inherent characteristics of the members of the organization which is a research technique to explore the core competence of teachers of each level of school and field through researching literature. As the result, both of the professionals and teachers recognized that the reality was unsatisfactory compared to the importance of core competence, and in the knowledge and performing skills category both groups evaluated the importance of ‘understanding of teachers and education for the gifted’ the highest. And in the attitude and courtesy skills category, the professionals groups assessed ‘positive attitude towards being gifted’ and the teachers group ‘leadership’ as the most important. Lastly, in the priority achieved through frequency of answers on the relative importance on the core competence of teachers of the gifted, both groups selected the same in 3 of the questions that they selected as first to the fourth in each category, showing that there is very little difference between awareness in the two groups regarding the core competence. Consequently, to close the gap between the importance of competence of teachers of the gifted and the reality, there should be administrative and financial support such as operation of a regional education for the gifted consultant center composed of professionals in education for the gifted, and reflected in work training of teachers of the gifted.