This thesis tries to examine the first teaching years of the newly appointed preschool teachers profoundly in order to provide the basic data for their successful teaching lives in the future. Therefore this study concerns mainly on the cooperative interactions between the four preschool teachers who were appointed in March 2003 and the researchers and narrative inquiry to analyze their teaching lives qualitatively.
As a result, the newly appointed teachers turned out to go through different first lives according to their dispositions and their preschool environments. One of the four teachers, 'Ms. Kim' went through hard times for one year, started to study for the qualifying exams for teachers when she got out of the responsibilities as a teacher. In a mean time, teacher 'Ms. Na' was finding her self-identity after having gone through constant internal disorders while teaching. Also, teacher 'Ms. Chung' was disappointed at her lowering self-esteem for a year, but she tried to challenge herself ceaselessly in order to be a good skilled teacher, and teacher 'Ms. Ko' worked for the preschool affiliated to the university, started her career as a new teacher only to put herself into the difficult position to develop feeling herself incompetent gradually after going through harsh training and being in a passive education system. These results showed that there is a strong need for cooperative supports considering each teacher's personality as well as the characteristic of each preschool for the newly appointed teachers nowadays and improving university teaching curriculums are required in order to encourage teachers-to-be to have strong wills to carry out successful teaching lives. Finally, considering understanding teachers' lives as a key to the successful shift in preschool curriculums, at least one field of the future studies should focus on listening to teachers' voices through interactive research methods demanding teachers' active participations.