The most important things for selecting qualifying teachers are as following; establishing definite standards, setting questions for the teacher certification examination observing the standards, and establishing institutes for training qualifying tea...
The most important things for selecting qualifying teachers are as following; establishing definite standards, setting questions for the teacher certification examination observing the standards, and establishing institutes for training qualifying teachers. These three factors cannot be independent as they should be closely related to each other, and this study was progressed based on this fact. This study analyzed the questions for the teacher certification examinations taken from 2010 to 2013, and set two directions: Firstly, do criteria for setting exam questions and question percentage coincide? Secondly, do curriculum of teacher's college and the contents of the teacher certification examination coincide?
For the first study, questions written for the tests from 2010 to 2013 were analyzed and compared to the question percentage: percentage of subject matter education and subject contents, percentage of particular subjects within subject contents, and percentage of Korean traditional music and Western music. Question criteria of the teacher certification examination were set based on the result of the joint research focused on Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation. As a result, percentage of subject matter education was different from that of subject contents. Also, percentage of Western music was six times higher than Korean traditional music. Even though there are standards for setting exam questions, these standards were not obeyed. This phenomenon suggests that question contents depend on examiners, and that it is accepted publicly as a trend.
For the second study, curriculums of 10 teacher's colleges, which offer Music Education, were analyzed. As a result, there was one college that does not open a class necessary for the teacher certification examination. Teacher's college has a purpose of training qualifying teachers, and this purpose corresponds with the purpose of the exam. Therefore, curriculum of teacher's college should be united with the exam subjects. On the other hand, even though all the subjects for the exam were included in the curriculum, some of the classes seemed to need betterment. For example, it was possible for students to take all classes of one subject in one semester. However, these subjects are the ones that require a long-term study, such as Harmonics and Counterpoint. Therefore, curriculum seemed to need a systematic and phased management through all college years.
In conclusion, for producing qualifying teachers, examiners should obey the question standards, and institutes should reorganize their curriculum to make it conformed to the teacher certification examination.