초등학교의 수준별 교육과정 운영에 관한 연구 = The Study on the Implementation of Differentiated Curriculum in the Elementary Schools

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study is to investigate into the actual state of implementation of the differentiated curriculum in the elementary schools and find out the problems about it. For this purpose, 364 teachers who taught 3rd or 4th graders in the 26 elementary schools were surveyed, and 11 teachers(in two groups) were participated in the focus group interviews. The major results obtained from this study are summarized as follows: 1. The necessity of the introduction of differentiated curriculum into National Curriculum is acknowledged. But the text contents for the advanced and supplemental learning are in large quantity and high degree of difficulty, which disturb the effective implementation of differentiated curriculum. 2. It showed the highest frequency that teachers taught all students in classes the basic, supplemental and advanced contents in texts. And the criteria of discriminating between the students for advanced learning and the students for supplemental learning are not precise. The teachers` personal guidance runs short in class, neither do the learning: materials for each level. 3. The special supplementary lessons for the low, achievers fell into difficult situation owing to the lack of mathematic teachers and appropriate learning materials. For lack of synthetic diagnosis, it was identified that these lessons have been implemented ineffective. The results gave suggestions in developing and implementing the differentiated curriculum in elementary schools as belows: 1. It needs to be checked whether the 3rd and 4th graders` social studies curricula in the elementary school should be developed as differentiated is valid or not. And, the text contents of three subjects(Korean language, mathematics, and social studies) need to be reduced in quantity and difficulty. 2. The definite standards like those of math, which divided students into the supplemental and the advanced course, need to be presented in the texts of social studies and Korean language. Teaching students the supplemental course or advanced course, teachers` personal guidance is to be emphasized along with the individual learning and cooperative learning. 3. To implement the special supplementary lessons for the low achievers with effective, it needs to supplement the teachers, to improve the quality of texts, and to diagnose the students` deficit carefully.