The purpose of this study is to find out what effect of student-teaching in kindergarten through reflective journal writing on pre-service early childhood teacher's educational belief and teacher efficacy.
For this, the research question were posed as...
The purpose of this study is to find out what effect of student-teaching in kindergarten through reflective journal writing on pre-service early childhood teacher's educational belief and teacher efficacy.
For this, the research question were posed as below;
1. What is this effect of student-teaching in kindergarten through reflective Journal Writing on Pre-service early childhood teacher's educational belief?
1) What is this effect of student-teaching in kindergarten through reflective Journal Writing on Pre-service early childhood teacher's behaviorism educational belief?
2) What is this effect of student-teaching in kindergarten through reflective Journal Writing on Pre-service early childhood teacher's maturationism educational belief?
3) What is this effect of student-teaching in kindergarten through reflective Journal Writing on Pre-service early childhood teacher's cognitivism educational belief?
2. What is this effect of student-teaching in kindergarten through reflective Journal Writing on Pre-service early childhood teacher's teacher efficacy?
1) What is this effect of student-teaching in kindergarten through reflective Journal Writing on Pre-service early childhood teacher's general teacher efficacy?
2) What is this effect of student-teaching in kindergarten through reflective Journal Writing on Pre-service early childhood teacher's individual teacher efficacy?
The subject of the study were 32 senior coming 4 kindergartens in g city. They were assigned to the experimental group and the control group each 16. The experimental treatment were conducted 3 times a week for 4∼6 weeks, with 12∼18 activities in total and a guidance teacher give feedback after journal writing.
Beliefs Test Inventory by Moon, Mi-ok(1993), which is modified 6 to 5 step rating criteria to be suitable for this research are used as an measuring instrument. Teacher efficacy Test by Cho, Boo-kyung, Back Eun-Joo, Seo, So-young(2001) developed by Enochos and Riggs(1990).
So effect of student-teaching in kindergarten through reflective journal writing on pre-service early childhood teacher's educational belief and teacher efficacy, this study was used SPSS program and the results were analyzes with T-test.
The results were as follows;
First, the experimental group who participated student-teaching in kindergarten through reflective journal writing performed better in most areas of the subsequent educational belief than the control group.
Second, the experimental group who participated student-teaching in kindergarten through reflective journal writing performed better in most areas of the subsequent teacher efficacy than the control group.
The results of this study suggest that student-teaching in kindergarten through reflective journal writing have positive influence on pre-service early childhood teacher's educational belief and teacher efficacy.
Teaching in kindergarten through reflective journal writing were meaningful. So they can be adopted to the field of student-teaching in kindergarten process as effective methods.