한국과 미국, 독일의 초임교사 교육에 관한 비교연구 = A comparative study on the beginning teacher education in Korea and the U.S.A, Germany

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The Purpose of this study was to find some suggestions to improve beginning teacher education for the beginning teachers at the elementary through a comparative study of three countries, Korea, United States of America, Germany, focused on their beginning teacher education. In this study, available data and literatures about beginning teacher education were gathered and analysed. In U.S.A, beginning teacher education based on ten standards of teacher certification, which beginning teachers have, leads to improve beginning teacher`s Professionality. In Germany, teacher education focused on the field is reinforced by two step state exam and internship between state exam. These are main difference of teacher certification system in Korea, which the 2nd class regular teacher, who is beginning teacher, becomes the 1st class regular teacher through the qualification training. Therefore, to improve the beginning teacher`s Professionality, teacher`s certification should be made and teacher education focused on the field should be reinforced.