A reconceptualization of the roles of teachers is necessary with changes in the future
education environment and curriculum autonomy. In particular, teachers are expected to design
and operate school-level curriculum as the national-level curriculum is simplified or
decentralized in future schools. The purpose of this study is to explore teachers’
professionalism, roles, and visions as school curriculum designers and developers with changes
in the future education environments. We explored possible scenarios for future schooling in
15-20 years and teacher professionalism required in the future school through in-depth
interviews and meetings with 23 experts. According to the results, the experts regarded ‘the
transformation or reconstruction scenario’ as highly possible and desirable, followed by ‘the
market scenario’. The components of teacher professionalism for future schooling suggested by
the experts include the following: understanding of human change, relationship with others,
subject matter knowledge, teaching expertise, key competencies, assessment expertise, etc.
Teachers in the future school are expected to actively reconstruct school-level curriculum, and
therefore they should change the school into a learning community to respond to the demand.
Discussed in the conclusion are several ways to use a teacher learning community to meet the
demands of autonomous school-level curriculum reconstruction including assuring teachers’
learning community activities, networking with other learning communities, and performing
research community roles.