The goal of this study was to examine the relationship between teachers' efficacy belief and interactions between teachers and children of childcare teachers, and utilize the results as the basic data to educate of teachers.
The subjects were 205 teac...
The goal of this study was to examine the relationship between teachers' efficacy belief and interactions between teachers and children of childcare teachers, and utilize the results as the basic data to educate of teachers.
The subjects were 205 teachers at 48 childcare centers located in the Jeonlabukdo area. The instruments employed were teachers' efficacy belief(general teaching efficacy and personal teaching efficacy), interactions between teachers and children(care of meals and food eaten between regular meals time, care of a nap, care of using a toilet, positive language and action of teachers, encouragement of positive interactions among peers, negative emotion acceptance and problem intervention of children, positive participation to free play of children, and an equality treatment for children), experiences, and age. The data were analyzed with the SPSS program. They were analyzed by Mean, Standard Deviation, t-test, Pearson correlation, and Regression Analysis.
The results of this study are as follows: First, personal teaching efficacy was significantly different by the types of childcare institution. But general teaching efficacy was not significantly different by the types of childcare institution.
‘Positive language and action of teachers’, ‘encouragement of positive interactions among peers’, ‘negative emotion acceptance and problem intervention of children’, and ‘positive participation to free play of children’ were significantly different by the types of childcare institution.
Second, personal teaching efficacy was correlated positively with teachers' experiences. General teaching efficacy and personal teaching efficacy were correlated positively with teachers' age.
Factors of interactions between teachers and children were correlated positively with teachers' age, but were not correlated positively with teachers' experiences.
Third, factors of interactions between teachers and children were correlated positively with personal teaching efficacy. And ‘care of meals and food eaten between regular meals time’, ‘care of using a toilet’, ‘positive language and action of teachers’, ‘encouragement of positive interactions among peers’, ‘negative emotion acceptance and problem intervention of children’, and ‘positive participation to free play of children’ were correlated positively with general teaching efficacy.
Lastly, personal teaching efficacy was the most powerful variable influencing interactions between teachers and children.