This paper explored a teaching culture of an elementary school through the clothing closely related with human beings. This research analyzed the reality and recognition of it through the clothing behavior which is both closely bound up with the categories of material culture, social structure, value belief ideology and concurrently reflects the outer and inner of a teacher. Furthermore, synthesizing the reality and recognition of teacher’s clothing behavior, this research made a search for the characteristics a teaching culture of an elementary school. In favor of this research, selecting 5 elementary school homeroom teachers in Seoul as research participants, this research collected self-reports for 10 weeks and conducted in-depth interviews. In order to analyze the reality of teacher’s clothing behavior, this research made use of clothing image, utilizing the analysis framework typified by fashion, dignity, and active and in order to analyze the recognition of teacher’s clothing behavior this research made use of qualitative content analysis. As a result of this analysis, it seemed that teachers normally have on clothing items that enhance active images and clothing color that enhances dignity image. Depending on the specific situation, teachers have on clothing styles that enhance dignity image in schools and have on clothing styles that enhance active image out of schools. Depending on their classroom situations, teachers also have a tendency to show a clothing style. In consequence of the analysis of the teacher’s recognition of clothing behavior, teachers were aware of clothing behaviors in terms of 10 categories and 70 core contents consisting of personal dimension, interpersonal social dimension, and environmental dimension. Based on the analysis of the reality and recognition of teacher’s clothing behavior, there are 4 characteristics in elementary school teaching culture as follows. It follows that there are ‘A culture which cares about the individual and places it at a distance from the outside’, an external-influenced dignity-oriented culture , ‘A culture which adapts the phenomenon and accepts , and A culture which wants autonomy, diversity and emphasizes active . The characteristics of this school teaching culture show relevance to an existing teaching culture and show signs of creating a new culture. The former 3 characteristics are closely connected with individualism , vulnerable to external influences , conservatism , formalism . However, ‘a culture which wants autonomy, diversity and emphasizes active shows, as a new tendency, both a change trend and a change possibility of a teaching culture at the same time.