Consensual Qualitative Research on the Teacher Teaching Experience of Over-dependent Students on Smartphones : Focusing on the Difficulties and Improvements of Teachers

This study was conducted by analyzing the difficulties and areas for improvement in teaching smartphone-dependent students through a consensual qualitative analysis method targeting 26 teachers in Chungcheongnam-do.As a result, the difficulties in guiding students who are over-dependent on smartphones were categorized into seven main areas and 11 subcategories, and seven main areas and eight subcategories were identified as areas for improvement.In the experience of teaching students who are overly dependent on smartphones, the personal difficulties were classified as lack of individual teacher capacity and lack of guidance time, the educational environment difficulties were classified as difficulty in connecting with home and limitations of the school educational environment and the institutional difficulties were classified as limitations in connecting with home, limitations of the legal system and, lack of individualized intervention.The areas of improvement in guiding students who are overly dependent on smartphones include strengthening professionalism, enhancing education, and restricting use as school factors; therapeutic intervention; connecting with professional institutions as student factors; and expanding parental support systems as family factors.It is significant in that it can provide teachers with specific information they need by identifying areas that require improvement.