수업개선 관행공동체를 통한 교사의 변화 탐색: 수학 수업관행을 중심으로 = Exploring Teacher Change Through the Community of Practice Focused on Improving Mathematics Teaching

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of the present study is to explore the process of teacher change as elementary school teachers participated in a community focused on improving mathe- matics teaching. To do so, a professional community for improving instructional practice consisted of a group of voluntary elementary school teachers. The professional community provides participating teachers with great opportunities to share their understanding of practical knowledge related to mathematics teaching and learning and change mathematical beliefs as well as to learn pedagogical content knowledge. This study approached to teacher professionality in terms of mathematical beliefs and teaching practice. The change of teaching practice was measured coherently both with a questionnaire and with a mathematics teaching standard developed for this study. The findings of this study point out thatteachers' beliefs about how students learn mathematics have changed. This study also indicated that after participating in the professional community focused on improving mathematics teaching, teachers' mathematical teaching is changed toward the more students' oriented way. Especially, it is observed that the meaningful change in participating teachers' teaching practice took place with respect to the role of teachers, students' interaction, mathematical tasks, and problem solving. Finally, this study implies that teachers can have an opportunity to change their beliefs and deepen their professionality about elementary mathematics teaching and learning through participating in the community of practice, through which participating teachers can share their practical knowledge and their understandings about teaching and learning of elementary mathematics.

국문 초록 (Abstract)

이 연구는 수학 수업개선에 초점을 맞춘 관행공동체의 형성과 참여를 통해서 교사들의 변화를 탐색하는데 그 목적이 있다. 수업개선 관행공동체를 통해서 교사들은 수학 수업에 관한 다양한 담론과 지식을 공유하게 되고 결과적으로 수학 수업 전문성 신장을 위한 다양한 기회를 갖게 되었다. 이 연구에서는 교사들의 변화를 신념과 수업관행의 측면에서 접근하였다. 그 결과 아동들의 수학 학습방법에 대한 교사들의 신념 측면에서 지속가능한 수학 수업개선의 가능성을 보여 주었다. 또한, 수업관행의 변화 측면에서 교사들의 수학 수업이 학습자 중심 경향으로 변화하고 있는 것으로 드러났다. 이러한 변화는 설문분석에서뿐만 아니라 실제 수업분석 결과에서도 그대로 드러나고 있다. 결국 성공적이고 지속가능한 수학 수업의 변화를 위해서는 수업의 변화에 대한 가치 및 수학 교과와 관련된 전문적인 지식을 공유할 수 있는 환경이 조성되어야 함을 본 연구는 시사한다.

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