This study finds out the difficulty elementary school teachers have experienced in teaching the localized textbook and Professional Learning Community(PLC) which is performed to overcome it. By PLC, elementary school teachers make progress in professi...
This study finds out the difficulty elementary school teachers have experienced in teaching the localized textbook and Professional Learning Community(PLC) which is performed to overcome it. By PLC, elementary school teachers make progress in professionalism and reinforce self-directed teaching competencies. This is an attempt of collaboration between higher education institute and elementary school to establish Professional Development System(PDS). When elementary school teachers taught social studies textbook published in the local community, they tried to do re-constructing the materials by themselves. They remodeled the deep geographic knowledge and geographic skills so that they could optimize the contents` level for students. Although elementary school teachers had some troubles in teaching social studies textbook published in the local community because they didn`t have enough geographic knowledge which is systematic, they were satisfied with doing together and making the feeling of solidarity with colleagues through PLC, and they were looking forward to pursuing of developing PLC.