원장의 코칭리더십과 유아교사의 놀이교수효능감의 관계에서 부모-교사 협력의 매개효과

Abstract

Objectives The purpose of this study examine the mediating effect of parent-teacher partnership in the relationship between director’s coaching leadership and early childhood teacher’s play teaching efficacy. Methods For this, surveys were conducted on 224 early childhood teachers from kindergartens and day care centers. The collected data were analyzed descripive statistics, correlation analysis, and regression analysis by SPSS 26.0 and SPSS Process Macro 3.5 Model 4. Also, mediating effect was confirmed statistical significance by bootstrapping. Results The results were as following: First, there were significantly positive correlations among parent-teacher partnership, director’s coaching leadership and early childhood teacher’s play teaching efficacy. Second, director’s coaching leadership had a direct effect on early childhood teacher;s play teaching efficacy and an indirect effect was shown through parnet-teacher partnership. The indirect effect through parent-teacher partnership was confirmed statistical significance by bootstrapping. Conclusions Based on this study results, we discussed that the importance of paly teaching efficacy as well as director’s coaching leadership and parent-teacher partnership to improve the play teaching efficacy.