Innovative Teacher Preparation in College of

Innovations in Teacher Education: The
Development of Korean Education through a
New System for Colleges of Education
College of Education SNU
Cho, Youngdal
Dean, College of Education, Seoul National
University
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 I. Tasks and Need for Innovation in Korean
Teacher Education
 II. 6Year Teacher Education Model and
Curriculum
 III. Characteristics of 6 Year Model
 IV. Expected Effects
Tasks in Korean Education reform
1.Too much private investment
2.Collapsed classroom
3.Rushing for studying abroad
4.Education for higher order thinking
Etc.
One of most important solutions;
Reforming Teacher Education
Traditional Conception of Teacher and
Knowing
經明行修道德兼備可爲師範
 (A Teacher with profound Knowledge & Morality)
學而時習
知之者<好之者<樂之者(Confucius)
見 < 友 < 知(Mencius)
庖丁解牛(Chuangtzu)
Traditional Conception of Teacher and
Knowing
無我(Back to the first stage)
廻光反照(禪宗, Zen Buddhism),
Falsification(Popper)

吾有一言

絶慮忘縁

兀然無事坐

春来草自青

[남악 나찬선사(南嶽懶瓚禪師) 지음; 선가귀감, 서산대사]
Traditional Conception of Teacher and
Knowing
日鑿一竅七日而渾沌死


One day, Making one,
After 7days, The King(Chaos) died
혼돈(중앙)이 남해왕 숙과 북해왕 홀을 잘
대접해서, 두 왕이 혼돈을 대접하기 위하여 모든
사람에게 있는 보고 듣고 먹고 숨쉬는 데에
필요한 7개의 구멍을 하루에 하나씩
뚫어주었는데 7일에 혼돈은 죽어버렸다.
( 莊子應帝王 Changtzu)
Traditional Conception of Teacher and
Knowing



溫故而知新
Through the things and examples of past, we
can catch some good and creative ideas that
would make the world to be happier.
Teacher having Profound Knowledge with Virtuous
character
Need for Innovation in the Current
College of Education System
1. The Rise of the knowledge and
Information-oriented Society and
Newly Required Roles for Teachers
Teachers as Researcher with
 Information
 Foreign Language
 Multi-cultural Capabilities
2. Training New Teachers as
Comprehensive Leaders equipped
with Intellectual and Moral Excellence
 educational justice and ethics based on communal
solidarity
 an educational institution system that can provide
teachers with these capabilities through a kind of
long term curriculum
(e.g., The New Jersey Project, The Theory of Major
Transition, Prognostic Socialization, etc.)
3. Strengthening on-the-job training
and teaching specialty
 The need of continuous & in-depth practical research
on both the context of teaching materials and
methods of teaching
 Students in Colleges of Education should be provided
with at least a 6-month practicum
-in order to have the capability to manage a class,
-to provide sufficient guidance to students, and
-to carry out the other myriad affairs required from a
teacher.
4. Guaranteeing Social Status and Pride in
Teaching
 To consider such aspects as
-responsibility,
-knowledgeable professionalism,
-a sense of pride,
-the level of commitment in education,
-social respect, and
-and other motivations behind the activities of teachers
 Teachers of secondary education in today's
society should be guaranteed an academic
degree higher than that of a bachelor's degree in
order to gain the social trust, respect and
professionalism they need
6 Year Curriculum Model
Teacher
With Pride
- Newly
established
liberal arts
courses
-Boosting major
subjects of study
-Strengthening
on-the-job
-Training and
teaching
capability
-Strengthening
educational
research
resources
-Strengthening
the graduation
requirements
Teachers
as
Producers of
Knowledge
Innovative
TeacherTraining
System
6 Year
Curriculum
Innovative
TeacherTraining
Curriculum
Teachers
With Moral
integrity
Teachers
Implementing
Special
Creative
Educational
Curriculum
Teachers as
Leaders in
the Open
Society
Teachers
A
Breakthrough
in the Current
Public
Education
Crisis
as Researchers
Realizing
Comprehensive
Moral Integrity
Qualitative
Development
of Education
in Korea
Preconditions for designing a 6-year
education system
1) Teacher as a practical researcher
2) Requirements for Professionalism in
Teacher
3) Openness and Comprehensiveness of
the Teacher Education System
1) Teacher as a practical researcher
 teacher as a practical researcher
- To have intelligence and ethics, rather than a simple messenger of
knowledge, and
- To strengthen their field experience in order to adapt to the
changes in society, add overseas training, and
- To strengthen their professional ability by having them complete
curriculum-pedagogies courses,
- To display openness, comprehensiveness, plurality and
specialization, according to the development stages of each
society
 Korean colleges of educations, within the boundary of
universities, have achieved, to a certain degree,
openness and comprehensiveness.
However…
-Teacher training programs have been easily influenced by
outside pressure, resulting in failing to systematically
promote teacher specialization and professionalization.
2) Requirements for
Professionalism
 Qualitative excellence is generally connected to
internal conditions of professional authority of
teachers.
 Internal conditions, whether innate or learned, are
-abilities and qualities that are inherent to the teacher as an
individual.
- the state where excellence in curriculum knowledge,
specialty of pedagogies and a mature personality are
integrated.
The main purpose is to expertly teach his/her subjects
which requires sufficient knowledge in terms of
research and the application of excellent pedagogy.
3) Openness and Comprehensiveness
of Teacher Education System
 An open position must be
- adopted on the grounds of recruiting talented
people and securing the flexibility of teacher
training, based on a purposive system for teacher
education.
 An open-comprehensive 6-year model, which
has openness in admitting students with the
basis of purposive 6-year system of college of
education, would be reasonable, considering the
lack of teacher ethics, the teacher's role as a
practical researcher.
Characteristics of the 6-year-Teacher
Education System
1) Integration:
-Training education leaders with intelligence and
morality
-including general ability, curricular ability,
personality, and sense of values and ethics
2) Openness
The idea of openness is to 'avoid limiting system
management to internal structures, and to
implement with flexibility in relation to society
and neighboring systems.'
In sum…
The 6-year curriculum model must meet the following
requirements.
(1) The subject of education and research area should be expanded to
include leaders and researchers of school and social education,
centering around the current middle school teacher training system.
(2)This may be done by allowing excellent talent from other colleges and
universities to transfer to colleges of education, and by providing an
infrastructure that could train competent teachers from a variety of
backgrounds.
(3)Double majors or minors should be made obligatory in order to meet
the various demands of teachers.
(4) Foreign language will be intensively taught to students of college of
education for qualification of globalized and multi-cultural society.
(5) A practical knowledge of education and ethics may be developed
through taking liberal arts and general studies.
6-year Curriculum Model for
a Comprehensive & Open System
Educational Researcher Training
Course
(Ph. D. Course)
6
5
4
<Qualification Course>
Specialized Major 2
On-the-Job Training Course
Thesis Research
6
5
Specialized Major 1
On-the-Job Visitation Training
major
2
General Courses for Teacher
General Major
General course in Liberal Arts
and Major
1
General Course for Teacher, Liberal
Art
Major Inquiry
1
Year
College of Education (Estimate 50%) Other Departments and
Universities(50%)
Year
3
4
3
2
Characteristics of 6-year
curriculum model
On-the-Job
Practicality
Research
Capacity
Innovational Model for
Teacher-Training
:6-year-curriculum
Open
Attitude
Comprehensive
& moral Integrity
Curriculum for open & comprehensive
system of Colleges of Education
Teachers as researchers with comprehensive
personality and teacher ethics
Courses in Liberal
Arts
Course in
Education
Major
On-the-Job
Training
Curriculum for open & comprehensive
system of Colleges of Education -1
Courses in Liberal Arts
⊙ Foundations for an Intellectual (General
Knowledge)
⊙ Professional Educators with a high degree of
ethics (Professional ethics and Knowledge)
⊙ Educators with a heart for service
(Educational Service)
⊙ Leaders of Globalization with multi-cultural
and language capabilities
(Multi-cultural ∙ foreign language education)
Curriculum for open & comprehensive
system of Colleges of Education -2
Course in Education Major
⊙ Education in basic knowledge and research
methodologies for completing courses in
Education (Basic Major)
⊙ Education in subject knowledge and
research methodologies in the education major
( Major I)
⊙ Education in the professional knowledge
required for specialized academic research for
each education major( Major II)
⊙ Education in practical researching capacity
(Thesis Research)
Curriculum for open & comprehensive
system of Colleges of Education -3
On-the-Job Training
⊙ Providing practical knowledge to
successfully teach in the school setting
(Practical knowledge for Teaching)
⊙ Providing opportunities to experience actual
teaching classrooms (Participating in onthe-job training education )
⊙ Completion of Teaching practicums (Onthe-Job Training)
⊙ Providing opportunities to experience the
teaching setting in foreign countries. (Foreign
On-the-Job Training)
Curriculum and Academic Credit System:
6-year curriculum model
Classification
General
Education
Major
Education
on-theJob
training
Education
General
Current System
Proposed
System (6-year
curriculum)
36 (37)
36 (37)
Educational
3-6
Social Service
2
Courses in the
Education Major
52 (B.A.)+24
(M.A.)
76
Thesis Research
3 (M.A.)
6
Classroom
observation
1 (1 week
witnessing)
2 (2 weeks
observation)
actual teaching
Practicum
2 (4 weeks
practicum)
6 (12 weeks
practicum)
foreign teaching
practicums
Theory on
Teaching
Total Credit Requirements for
Graduation
2
9
12
130
170
Remark
Basic Major +
Specialized Major I (52)
Specialized Major II (24)
4 weeks of Foreign
Training
Expected Effects
 Teachers as Practical Researchers with
Comprehensive Personality and Ethics
 Enhancing the Social Status and Respect of
Teachers
 Promoting the Practical Researching Capacity of
Teachers
 Introduction of Other Excellent Human Resources
from other Professions via Open Teacher
Recruitment Channels
 Teacher Education System to Enhance the Quality
of Public Education
Expected Effects from the 6-year
curriculum
【Teachers】
- Enhanced Professional
Capabilities
- Enhanced Personal
Integrity
- Enhance Social Status
and Respect
- Promotion of
researching
Capabilities
【 College of
Education】
- Educating practical
teachers
- Establishing Further
Educational Syste
m for Teachers
- Induction of
excellent
talent into teaching
positions.
Innovation Model for Training
Teachers: 6-year curriculum
for College of Education
Systems
【Government】
- Establishment of
world class teachertraining system
- Establishment of core
foundations for
educational human
resources
- Breakthrough in the
current crisis in
public education
- adjusting the supply
and demand of
teachers in
secondary
education
College of Education, SNU

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