Recently, it is emphasized that reflective practitioners who observe and deliberate
in one’s own class. Although the teaching skill of teachers is improved by diverse
experiences from an educational field, the balance between knowledge and
self-reflection is required from the period of pre-special teacher. For improving the
knowledge of pre-special teacher’s self-reflection it is needed to learn the academic
knowledge and theory, to experience a educational setting, to reflect and to improve
one’s performance systematically.
Based on the analysis of pre-special teacher’s reflective journal writing during
teaching practice, the study was conducted to understand the experienced reflective
contents of pre-special teacher and to find a way for improving pre-special
teacher’s quality and expertise. Four pre-special teacher who participated in a school
for the blind during four weeks of teaching practice were included in this study and
their reflective journal writing was analyzed. The reflective contents of pre-special
teacher using the results of 75 reflective journal writings were as follows: 1) the
knowledge of teaching contents, 2) extra curricular activity, 3) the problem of
educational field, 4) understanding students, 5) self-understanding as a pre-special
teacher and 6) the specialty of teaching. The results were presented by six main themes
and 20 sub-themes. The effective action plan of reflective journal writing was suggested
in this study. This study present the necessary things of training course for pre-special
teacher and educational direction for students with disabilities.