Based on the view that teachers’ role in promoting student agency in the lower primary grades is important, this study aims to derive teachers’ role in enhancing student agency in the lower grades close to the field. First, the relationship between student agency and teacher roles in the lower grades was explored.
Furthermore, the necessity of deriving field-oriented teacher roles was discussed based on prior research. Next, nine experts in the lower grades of primary school participated in in-depth interviews. The results were derived using the grounded theory approach. The results were conceptualized according to the teacher professionalism cycle’s “professor competency, student understanding and guidance competency, educational community formation and participation competency, self-development and management competency.”