learning community, highly experienced child care teachers, supporting children's play, professionalism

This study aimed to examine the experiences of a learning community that supports children's play for highly experienced teachers who are in charge of a class of 3-5 years old at childcare centers. For the study, six teachers who work at childcare centers located in G city and have more than 8 years of experience were selected as participants. The learning community held face-to-face meetings from June to September 2024, and held them for a total of 8 sessions, 2 hours per session. The recorded transcript of the learning community, the teacher journal, the recorded transcript of individual interviews, and the observation records through Padlet were collected as research data. As a result of the study, two major categories and 7 subcategories were extracted. As the sub-categories of the major category 'Putting down through the learning community', 'Heavyness as a highly experienced teacher', 'Equipped by teachers', and 'Burden toward play' were derived. And as the sub-categories of the major category 'Filling through the learning community', 'Courage to escape from custom', 'Observing the play in detail', 'faith that can be entrusted to children', and 'the value of education found in play' were derived. Through this study, it is expected to serve as basic data for the creation of research culture and improvement of teacher professionalism through the learning community of childcare teachers.