The good quality teaching, which every teacher is seeking, is a kind of teaching that gives high satisfaction to the teacher as well as improving the achievement of the student by efficient management of all the teaching processes that covers establis...
The good quality teaching, which every teacher is seeking, is a kind of teaching that gives high satisfaction to the teacher as well as improving the achievement of the student by efficient management of all the teaching processes that covers establishment of teaching target, selection and organization of teaching contents, adequate method of teachinglearning, and evaluation. Particularly, in case of selecting and organizing teaching materials, the process of restructuring the teaching contents by using various teaching materials and information as well as teacher''s specialty could be a criterion to determine the quality of teaching.It is concluded that researching and analyzing the study level of teaching materials required for middle and high school science teachers, the types of study, science related training and the status of selection and utilization of teaching materials will help forecast and enhance the possibility of good quality teaching, i.e. the possibility of doing a good teaching.The detailed hypothesis, established to find out middle and high school teacher''s perception on science teaching materials and the status of utilizing such teaching materials, is as follows:Firstly, are the required level of the study of teaching material of middle and high school science teachers different according to sex, school grade, teaching career and education?Secondly, are the types of teaching material study of middle and high school science teachers different according to sex, school grade, teaching career, teaching hours and education?Thirdly, are the status of science related training of middle and high school science teachers different according to sex, school grade, teaching career and education?Fourthly, are the selection and utilization of teaching materials of middle and high school science teachers different according to sex, school grade, teaching career and education?In order to prove the above mentioned hypothesis, detailed survey was performed against 328 science teachers of middle schools and high schools located in Seoul Metropolitan City and Kyung Gi Province. For this purpose SPSS (version 1.5) program was used to analyze the result.As a result, the following conclusions can be deduced.Firstly, it is proved that the teachers think it is very important to perform study by referring to technical books or training, to exchange information and consultation with colleague teachers. Particularly, it is proved that middle school teachers recognize such information exchange and consultation with colleague teachers more important than high school teachers. At present, when organizing and operating education courses, curriculum consultative meetings, consultative meetings and class teacher meetings are usually used and sometimes encouraged. This is anticipated because science curriculum has usually a special room called science laboratory.Even though most teachers think teaching material study is important for a better quality teaching, the first reason why they do not study teaching materials is because they do not have enough time due to ''works other than teaching'' and the next reason is that ''they do not know the method of teaching material study''.This result suggests that although enhancing teacher''s specialty is important in improving the quality of teaching, it is more important and urgent to improve the working conditions and environments.Secondly, science teachers think that time to study teaching material is insufficient due to administration works, works to do as a class teacher and other sundry works. They usually allocate time to study teaching materials in the afternoon after work. It is proved that they feel burdened by teaching because of the special character of science which requires teaching preparation focused on laboratory works and a lot of experimentation and evaluation. It is also proved that in some cases even teaching instruments and appliances were not fully utilized due to deterioration and lack of sufficient science laboratories. It is judged that in order to consolidate science basic education, securing a sufficient science laboratory is one of the most urgent tasks which science teaching is now facing.Thirdly, it is proved that many teachers agree that science related training is important and necessary and they responded that they want training focused on new knowledge, textbook related contents and science for practical use. We realize from this suggestion that, instead of training which is focused only on theory, development of more practical and diversified training program, that can be used and applied in the actual teaching, is needed.Fourthly, most teachers responded that proper selection and utilization of teaching materials are needed in preparing the teaching and it is proved that they use reference rooms of education related institutions, science meetings in the school and teaching materials distributed from School Board of city or province. The degree of specialty of teachers themselves was the criterion for selecting teaching materials.It is proved that the many teachers seldom use teaching materials which were prepared and distributed by the School Boards of the city and province, and education related institutions. This is understood because such materials are usually focused on theory which cannot be applied in the actual teaching. There were also quite a few responses that they do not use such materials because they do not know how to use them or they did not use such materials often.This result implies that there is a need to establish and reorganize reference material system to conform with the needs of teacher''s desire for study on the teaching materials and to make a systematic data base for concerned materials. For example, it might be one of the alternatives to provide a training continuously by dispatching a guiding instructor to the school in order to make the most use of TeachingLearning Supporting Center in Seoul...