123rd General Meeting of the KCS

Type Poster Presentation
Area Chemistry Education
Room No. Exhibition Hall 2
Time 4월 18일 (목요일) 11:00~12:30
Code EDU.P-489
Subject What do the Pre-service Teachers Learn from the Overseas Educational Volunteer Activity?
Authors JaeYoung Han
Department of Chemistry Education, Chungbuk Natioanl University, Korea
Abstract National Institute for International Education has supported the Korean pre-service teachers to go abroad for the overseas educational volunteer activity since 2016. The pre-service teachers of Chungbuk National University went to Nicaragua and taught elementary and secondary students. They had to select the lesson, make the textbook, write a script in Spanish, prepare educational materials, and demonstrate teaching before going to Nicaragua. In Nicaragua they had to teach students, modify lesson and script, develop their teaching skills, and evaluate lessons. When they came back to Korea, they had to reflect on their overseas educational volunteer activity. In all of these procedures, the pre-service teachers learned a lot of things. The purpose of this study is to analyze the learning of pre-service teachers. The raw data is the pre-service teachers’ (N=17) final reports. The learning was classified in three categories of preparation, teaching, and reflection. In the preparation, for example, they learned how to plan a lesson according to the context of the foreign country and to the level of students. In the teaching, for example, they learned how to interact with students and how to diversify the lessons. In the reflection, for example, they developed their own meaning of teaching. The overseas educational volunteer activity gave pre-service teachers very valuable experiences of true practicum. [This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2018S1A5A2A01036487)].
E-mail jyhannn@chungbuk.ac.kr