A Study on Educational Software Development Ability and Educational Plan of Pre-service Elementary Teachers

Abstract

As SW(software) is used more often and its use is more important in many fields, the Korean government plansSW education as a regular curriculum in the elementary, middle and high school education environment from 2018. This study aims to analyze the SW development competition result of pre-service elementary teachers submitted between 2014 and 2017 to determine the educational plan for connecting their SW development skills to curriculums and suggest an educational plan for training pre-service elementary teachers for future SW education. To this end, 61 educational SW development results submitted for the last 4 years are analyzed about the trend by years in terms of education methods, targeted subjects and school years, and development tools. Moreover, the curriculum for improving SW development skills of the pre-service elementary teachers is suggested. This study can be used to designing curriculums for determining educational plans to connect SW development skills of pre-service elementary teachers to creative curriculum courses and enhancing their problem-solving ability.