A Case Study on the Program for Pre-service Teachers to Improve Teaching Profession and Character Education Competency

Despite the development of science & technology and changes in the educational system, ‘high morality’, ‘social and emotional intelligence’, ‘pursuit of social justice’, and ‘passion for the teaching profession’ will be treated as important things in the future teacher paradigm. Based on this awareness of the problem, this study intends to develop and operate a program to improve pre-service teachers’ teaching profession and character education competency, and verify the effectiveness. During the 2021 Spring semester, 148 pre-service teachers, in a college of education located in Chungbuk Province, were participated in this research. The curriculum included several areas of teaching profession, character education, multi-cultural education, and civic education. In order to verify the effectiveness of this program, pre- and post-survey were conducted and analyzed with t-tests. In the statistics, pre-service teachers’ teaching profession and character education efficacy were significantly improved. Based on these results, this paper adds further suggestions for pre-service teacher education.