초등 예비교사 영어수업 컨설팅 적용 연구

A study on the application of consulting to pre-service primary school teachers’ English teaching

The pre-service teacher education is an important factor that dictates the quality of teacher graduates. Therefore, teacher preparation programs must provide excellent opportunities for student-teachers to develop knowledge of English teaching skills and to apply it to actual classroom teaching. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of consulting on pre-service primary school teachers’ English teaching. Consulting, a concept recently applied to education, has been proved to be an effective way of enhancing in-service teachers’ professional competence. However, little effort has been made to apply consulting to pre-service teacher education. This paper presents a model of consulting which is applicable to the pre-service teacher training process and reports on a case of consulting provided to three pre-service teachers. The results of the study indicated that consulting enabled the pre-service teachers to realize the strengths and weaknesses in their teaching behavior and to gain insights into how to improve their teaching. Consulting contributed to improving the pre-service teachers’ self-confidence in English teaching as well. This study suggests that instructional consulting as a valuable way of developing pre-service teachers’ professionalism should be more actively carried out in teacher education institutes.