Prior to the implementation of Early Childhood Teacher Evaluation for Professional Development, this
study aimed to accurately understand the form of teacher evaluation currently occurring in kindergartens
and the teachers' recognition of Early Childhood Teacher Evaluation for Professional Development. For
this, the survey was done for 198 teachers who are currently working for public and private
kindergartens. The study results are like below. First, most of the teachers working for national public
kindergartens answered that Early Childhood Teacher Evaluation for Professional Development was
conducted on its own. On the other hand, more than half of the teachers working for private
kindergartens answered that they had no experience of the teacher evaluation. In case of having the
evaluation, the Teacher Association was selected as the method of teacher evaluation and the self
evaluation tools were used. Moreover, the answer of having the teacher evaluation in every semester
was the most. Second, all the public and private teachers' recognition of Early Childhood Teacher
Evaluation for Professional Development which would be inforced was low while more than half of the
participants answered that it would be necessary to have the Early Childhood Teacher Evaluation for
Professional Development. Next, for the question about the appraisers for Early Childhood Teacher
Evaluation for Professional Development, more than half of the participants answered that its own
evaluating team which was comprised of a director, a vice director and colleague teachers would be
suitable as a director and colleague teachers were shown to be suitable appraisers respectively. For the
evaluation methods, more than half of the participants recognized that it would be needed to have the
evaluation methods only for early childhood teachers. As contents which should be included in Early
Childhood Teacher Evaluation for Professional Development, it was recognized that teaching-studying
methods, education curriculum design & practice and evaluation & use should be included. Then for the
use of the results of Early Childhood Teacher Evaluation for Professional Development, more than half
of the participants answered that the results should be used for the improvement of teachers' expertise
while the opinion that the results should be only open to the person him/herself was more than half of
the answers. The study results like above become the opportunity to understand the current status of
the teacher evaluation and its problems needed to be supplemented as giving positive effect on showing
the desirable directions to the future Childhood Teacher Evaluation for Professional Development.