This study is a case study of child care teachers' change through implementing a strategy called
“Responsive Teaching.” Study participants are teachers from employer-supported child care centers,
and they received “Responsive Teaching” strategy of teacher education provided by H Foundation.
With reference to videos of teacher-child interaction, anecdotal records, teacher's reflective journals,
Student-Teacher Relationship Scale(STRS), and several in-depth interviews of teachers, this study
analyzed a teacher's interactive behavior change, a relationship change between a teacher and a child,
and a teacher's experience of applying “Responsive Teaching” strategy.
The study revealed that the meaning of the teacher's experience of applying “Responsive Teaching”
strategy is that, first, ‘I become able to respect each one of children!’, second, ‘a process of
becoming more sensitive teacher’, third, ‘time to reflection of myself, time to build attachment and
trust’, fourth, ‘a change of tension and anxiety into comfort…’. This study have useful implications
that the study provides the basic data for the interaction between daycare teacher-child by suggesting
a Responsive Teaching strategy that can be easily applied and practiced in daily childcare.