The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of kindergarten practical teaching method on teacher efficacy and self concept, and is to investigate the differences on teacher efficacy and self concept with reference to students` grades. The subj...
The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of kindergarten practical teaching method on teacher efficacy and self concept, and is to investigate the differences on teacher efficacy and self concept with reference to students` grades. The subject in this study were 365 college students. In this study, pre- test, practical teaching method treatment, post- test were taken. Practical teaching method took 15 sessions during 2 months. One teaching session took 2 hours. In order to examine the effects of practical teaching method, two kinds of measurement instruments were used : the Kindergarten Teacher Efficacy Scale(KTES ; Lee, Hye Joo, 1998) and the Self-Concept Test(SCT ; Kwon, S-M, 1996). The two-way MANOVA procedure in SPSS-PC was applied to test the hypotheses of this study. Major conclusions of the research are as follows : 1. Teacher efficacy of the consistant participating group in practical teaching method were promoted than non participating group and non participating consistantly. However no differences were found in self-concept. 2. Teacher efficacy had no differences within the grades. However, there were differences in self-concept. Second grade were significant higher than first grade in self-concept.