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The purposes of this study were to find personal teaching efficacy and perception of importance about 'our life and electricityelectronics' unit in practical arts subject of elementary school teachers. The population for survey was all teachers who were teaching the practical arts to fifth grade student in elementary schools. The questionnaire was sent by mail. Two hundred ninety eight out of 520 questionnaires were returned, of which 284 were used for analysis after eliminating incomplete responses. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were employed for data analysis. Major findings of this study were as follows: First, personal teaching efficacy about this unit of elementary school teachers was average. Second, personal teaching efficacy about this unit showed meaningful differences in accordance with gender difference, level of education, receiving in-service education, high school curriculum sequence of teacher, lesson experience. Third, perception of importance about this unit of elementary school teachers was moderately high. Fourth, perception of importance about practice contents of this unit showed meaningful differences in accordance with gender difference, terms of teacher experience, level of education, receiving in-service education.