123rd General Meeting of the KCS

Type Symposium
Area Current Trends in Chemistry Education
Room No. Room 204
Time THU 15:40-16:10
Code EDU-1
Subject Curriculum of the secondary chemistry teachers' training colleges, is it good?
Authors Jongseok Park
Department of Chemistry Education, Kyungpook National University, Korea
Abstract The training of secondary school chemistry teachers is carried out by various institutions, but the curriculum of the teachers' training colleges that are required to be completed is nearly the same. This is because the Ministry of Education has designated the required courses. In particular, the view of the pre-service teachers is a very limited due to the teacher certification examination, regardless of whether they have taken various courses such as major and liberal arts during four years of college. While mentioning the 4th industrial revolution and nurturing human resources to prepare for the future society, but the old education curriculum and the teacher certification examination are becoming obstacles for the pre-service teachers to teach such talents. Therefore, I would like to examine the present curriculum of secondary school chemistry teachers and the contents of the teacher certification examination focusing on the field of chemistry education, and to suggest what should be improved by identifying problems.
E-mail parkbell@knu.ac.kr