Abstract
Our country now is undergoing a great educational reform toward the twenty-first century. Furthermore, the requirement to promote the quality and competencies of teachers who are agents of the educational reform has become a major concern. However, the standard of what quality and competencies are required is not yet clear. This study has considered this problem in the light of the basic principles of the educational reform, that is: to establish the independence, autonomy and self-responsibility of teachers. In other words, concrete and actual consideration has built around on the the three humanistic qualities required of teachers-love for children, youthfulness and spirit of inquiry-and possession of the three teaching techniques-specialized knowledge of his subjects and the children, organization of curriculum, and mastering teaching methods. By the way, in order to actually bring teachers' quality and competencies into full play, concrete plans are necessary. Three things must be considered-cooperative organization of the school, open-school management, and promotion of decentralization in educational administration. Finally, reference was made on the quality and competencies of kindergarten teachers. To sum up, the act of demonstrating and bringing up the quality and competencies of teachers is not a kind of abstract, uniform or closed consideration, but a concrete, practical, widely diversed, and flexible comprehension based on the principle of schools' and teachers' autonomy and responsibility, and on the principle of local autonomy in educational administration.
