This paper examines the areas where administrative support are offered by physical education teachers and sports coaches in the discharge of their duties. The paper also analyzes how the administrative support is being offered. It is hoped that such all awareness will make them conscious of the need for them to be effective. Dynamic and creative as physical education teachers and sports coaches. The paper discusses the position of Physical Education in the country's educational policy as recommended by Ghana Education Review Committee of1994 which made the subject a non-externally examinable subject. The paper suggests that the subject should be made a core subject at all levels and an externally examinable subject at Senior Secondary Certificate Examination level. It is concluded that if adequate and genuine administrative support is offered and the subject is made a core and an externally examinable subject it will be more appreciated and a better awareness of its usefulness will be enhanced.
1. Assume the existence of a large (1,600-pupil) junior high school, well staffed and amply supported, receiving all seventh and eighth grade pupils, and also all retarded pupils over 12 years of age. Assume that such a school makes no attempt to give specific training for any vocation or group of related vocations, hut offers “vocationally flavored” courses, if thereby it can better motivate specific branches of the cultural, civic, and physical education (the components of general or liberal education) which are its primary concern.
Administrative support for the teaching of physical education and sports coaching in secondary schools
