The aims of this study was to expand general understanding of teacher's professionalism and job
satisfaction between childcare teachers in special daycare center and those in general daycare center. The
subjects of this study were 384 childcare teachers working at daycare center. Some were 182 childcare
teacher working at general daycare center and other were 202 childcare teacher working a special
daycare center. The results of this study were as followed. First, in some significant differences was
found between the groups, total teacher's professionalism, socioeconomic status, autonomy, professional
knowledge and skil of special daycare center teacher were to be lower than those of teachers in general
daycare center. Second, in job satisfaction. some significant differences was found between the groups,
total job satisfaction, reward, task pressure, possibilities of special daycare center teacher were to be
lower than those of teachers in general daycare center. Third, through stepwise multiple regression, the
teacher's professionalism variables on special daycare center childcare teacher's job satisfaction were
professional knowledge and skill, community service, vocational ethics which accounted for 46% of the
variance in the data. And through stepwise multiple regression, teacher's professionalism variables on
general daycare center childcare teacher's job satisfaction were professional knowledge and skill,
socioeconomic status, autonomy which accounted for 40% of the variance in the data.