The purpose of this study was to understand the characteristics of good early childhood teacher that preservice teachers thought. The subjects of this study were 232 preservice teachers. We used open questionnaire, and analyzed qualitatively the meani...
The purpose of this study was to understand the characteristics of good early childhood teacher that preservice teachers thought. The subjects of this study were 232 preservice teachers. We used open questionnaire, and analyzed qualitatively the meanings. In this research, the participants thought the good early childhood teacher as a mother who cares for with love, a true friend of children, an intellectual teacher who has practical knowledge, a person who can control emotion and have good personality model, and a person with faith and passion. Preceding researches have had fixed images of early childhood teacher as a person who has good personality and professional knowledge and skill. But this study pointed out more various characteristics of good early childhood teacher.