| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立屏東教育大學 === 幼兒教育學系 === 99 === The major purpose of this study was to understand kindergartners’ and their parents’ perceptions of a good kindergarten teacher. Based on the purpose, the main research questions were: What are kindergarteners’ and their parents’ perceptions of a good kindergarten teacher ? What are the similarities and differences of these two perspectives? In this study, researcher adopted qualitative research methods to collect data. Data collection methods included：drama playing, group discussion, worksheet, informal interview, children observation, parental survey, and personal reflection journal.
The research findings are as follows: The image of a good kindergarten teacher in the eyes of kindergarteners is being gentle, which means “speak gently”, “look gentle”, “always smile”, and “being nice to everyone”. Also, children think a good kindergarten teacher should possess the following features: (1) knowledge – being intellectual; (2) teaching and activities – order a lot of books for students to read and to write; (3) teacher-student interaction–being reasonable; (4) administration – typing students’ data in the computer; (5) daily caring activities. The image of a good kindergarten teacher in the eyes of parents is to have a motherly nature--being gentle and persistent. Also, parents think a good kindergarten teacher should possess the following features: (1) being patient and affective; (2) emphasizing moral education ; (3) teaching actively; (4) having a good communication skill; (5) obtaining relevant educational and working experiences and passed the national exam; (6) always learning new things and having passion for teaching. Similar viewpoints of kindergartners and parents include: “look gentle”, “affectionate”, “patient” and “having a motherly nature”. Different viewpoints include: different definition of and requirement for gentleness. Kindergartners’ and parents’ viewpoints on a good teacher’s professional capability are similar on the following three aspects: “knowledge – being intellectual” “always learning new things and having a passion for teaching”; “teaching and activities – ordering a lot of books for us to read and to write” and “teaching subject knowledge”; “administration – typing students’ data in the computer” and “emphasizing moral education”. Their different viewpoints are: Parents require teachers to have relevant educational and working experience and pass the national exam; “daily caring activities”, “teaching actively” and “good communication skills”. In terms of communication skills, parents tend to emphasize more on parent-teacher communication; however, children tend to emphasize more on teachers’ reasonable communication between teacher and children. Finally, the study made a number of recommendations to kindergarten teachers, parents and teacher training organizations according to the above research findings.
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