Job Analysis of the Knowledge Important for Newly Licensed Physical Education Teachers

1994 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Shaul Norback ◽  
Diane Wattay

A job analysis was conducted to develop specifications for the physical education assessment of The Praxis Series: Professional Assessments for Beginning Teachers and to support the content relevance of the assessment. An advisory committee consisting of physical education teachers, teacher educators, and administrators worked with measurement psychologists to describe a knowledge domain important for newly licensed/certified physical education teachers to perform their jobs competently. The knowledge areas were judged for importance by a national sample of 815 physical education teachers, administrators, and college faculty. As a result of this survey, 128 knowledge statements were judged as important for newly licensed/certified physical education teachers.

2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darla Castelli ◽  
Lori Williams

This study examined what teachers know about health-related fitness (HRF) and how confident they are in their knowledge. Seventy-three middle school physical education teachers completed a 3-part cognitive HRF test and a self-efficacy questionnaire that required responses to statements about how confident they were in passing a HRF knowledge test. Results indicated that teachers were very confident in their knowledge of HRF; however, their actual HRF test scores did not meet the standard of achievement expected of a ninth-grade student as assessed by the South Carolina Physical Education Assessment Program. Further investigation of the influence of teacher characteristics related to HRF knowledge revealed that age and years of teaching experience significantly related to self-efficacy but not to HRF knowledge. This study implies that targeted teacher development is a necessary part of attaining and maintaining HRF knowledge required to teach to state and national standards.


2008 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nate McCaughtry ◽  
Kimberly L. Oliver ◽  
Suzanna Rocco Dillon ◽  
Jeffrey J. Martin

We used cognitive developmental theory to examine teachers’ perspectives on the use of pedometers in physical education. Twenty-six elementary physical education teachers participating in long-term professional development were observed and interviewed twice over 6 months as they learned to incorporate pedometers into their teaching. Data were analyzed via constant comparison. The teachers reported four significant shifts in their thinking and values regarding pedometers. First, at the beginning, the teachers predicted they would encounter few implementation challenges that they would not be able to overcome, but, after prolonged use, they voiced several limitations to implementing pedometers in physical education. Second, they anticipated that pedometers would motivate primarily higher skilled students, but found that lesser skilled students connected with them more. Third, they moved from thinking they could use pedometers to teach almost any content to explaining four areas of content that pedometers are best suited to assist in teaching. Last, they shifted from seeing pedometers as potential accountability tools for student learning and their teaching to identifying key limitations to using pedometers for assessment. Our discussion centers on connecting these findings to teacher learning and professional development, and on the implications for teacher educators and professional development specialists advocating pedometers in physical education.


2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 294
Author(s):  
Deise de Jesus Soares Nunes ◽  
Maria Amélia da Costa Lopes ◽  
Maria Amélia Pina Tomás Veiga

A educação equitativa e de qualidade para todos os cidadãos é uma das mais importantes formas de ultrapassagem das desigualdades que ainda se fazem sentir fortemente nas sociedades. A qualidade dos professores é uma dimensão central dos processos educativos, a qual depende em grande parte da qualidade da formação inicial. Este artigo apresenta uma pesquisa desenvolvida com o objetivo de explorar as características das identidades de professores formadores e dos climas de formação que formam professores focados na inclusão social e na humanização. Teoricamernte o estudo ancora-se no conceito de identidade profissional.  Metodologicamente, a pesquisa segue uma orientação qualitativa que se estrutura através de entrevista em grupo com professoras formadoras de um curso de ensino da educação física em uma universidade portuguesa e de análise documental sobre o ensino superior em Portugal a nível nacional e a nível da instituição das pessoas em estudo. A instituição foi escolhida devido à qualidade reconhecida de seu curso. Para dar conta da identidade dos formadores, a entrevista considerou o percurso profissional dos professores formadores e a sua perspectiva sobre a formação inicial; os documentos incluíram legislação, planos de estudos, ementas de documentos de auto e hétero avaliação do curso. A análise sugere que é possível a academia formar professores para a inclusão e a humanização, nomeadamente em certas condições: (i) existência de identidades duais (de registro acadêmico e profissional) e (ii) existência de verdadeiras comunidades de prática de professores formadores, professores cooperantes e estudantes estagiários.Palavras-chave: Formação de Professor. Percurso Profissional.  Ensino da Educação Física.Can the academy train teachers? An experience of training physical education teachers at the universityABSTRACTEquitable and quality education for all citizens is one of the most important ways to overcome the inequalities that are still strongly felt in societies. The quality of teachers is a central dimension of educational processes, which largely depends on the quality of initial training. This article presents a research developed with the objective of exploring the characteristics of the identities of teacher educators and the training climates that form teachers focused on social inclusion and humanization. Theoretically, the study is based on the concept of professional identity. Methodologically, the research follows a qualitative orientation that is structured through a group interview with teachers who teach a physical education teaching course at a Portuguese university and documentary analysis on higher education in Portugal on national level and on studied people institutional level. The institution was chosen due to the recognized quality of its course. To account for the identity of the trainers, the interview considered the professional path of the teacher educators and their perspective on initial training; the documents included legislation, study plans, menus for self and straight course evaluation documents. The analysis suggests that it is possible for the academy to train teachers for inclusion and humanization, namely under certain conditions: (i) existence of dual identities (of academic and professional record) and (ii) existence of true communities of practice for teacher educators, cooperating teachers and student trainees.Keywords: Teacher Training. Professional Path. Physical Education Teaching.¿Puede la academia formar profesores? Una experiencia de formación de profesores de educación física en la universidadRESUMENLa educación equitativa y de calidad para todos los ciudadanos es una de las formas más importantes de superar las desigualdades que aún se sienten con fuerza en las sociedades. La calidad de los docentes es una dimensión central de los procesos educativos, que depende en gran medida de la calidad de la formación inicial. Este artículo presenta una investigación desarrollada con el objetivo de explorar las características de las identidades de los formadores de docentes y los climas de formación que forman los docentes enfocados en la inclusión social y la humanización. Teóricamente, el estudio se basa en el concepto de identidad profesional. Metodológicamente, la investigación sigue una orientación cualitativa que se estructura a través de una entrevista grupal con profesores que imparten un curso de docencia de educación física en una universidad portuguesa y un análisis documental sobre la educación superior en Portugal a nivel nacional y a nivel institucional. La institución fue elegida por la reconocida calidad de su curso. Para dar cuenta de la identidad de los formadores, la entrevista consideró la trayectoria profesional de los formadores de docentes y su perspectiva sobre la formación inicial; los documentos incluían legislación, planes de estudio, menús para autoevaluación y documentos de evaluación del curso. El análisis sugiere que es posible que la academia capacite a los docentes para la inclusión y la humanización, es decir, bajo ciertas condiciones: (i) existencia de identidades duales (de expediente académico y profesional) y (ii) existencia de verdaderas comunidades de práctica para los formadores de docentes, profesores colaboradores y alumnos en formación.Palabras clave: Formación Docente. Carrera. Enseñanza de la Educación Física.


1985 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rick Bell ◽  
Kate R. Barrett ◽  
Pamela C. Allison

The ability of physical education teachers to observe the movement response of the learner and the environment in which the response takes place is crucial in effective instruction. This study is an initial attempt to identify what a group of 21 preservice physical education teachers reported seeing in a 15-minute games lesson with fourth-grade students. An analytic inductive strategy was employed to categorize the data at two levels of specificity. Results indicated that as a group the preservice teachers focused on a broad range of teacher and student behaviors and lesson elements, but as individuals they had a more limited focus of attention. Level 2 analysis revealed that only 10% of the recorded statements focused on the movement responses of the children and no statements related to the learning environment. If teacher educators deem it important that their majors notice teacher and student behaviors as well as lesson elements, they have to plan more carefully for this to occur, particularly with majors early in their professional education.


1993 ◽  
Vol 1993 (1) ◽  
pp. i-16
Author(s):  
Judith Shaul Norback ◽  
Patricia A. Bukatko ◽  
Michael Rosenfeld ◽  
Richard J. Tannenbaum ◽  
Diane Wattay

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-263
Author(s):  
Arif Budi Raharjo ◽  
Gigih Siantoro ◽  
Dwi Cahyo Khartiko ◽  
Khurotul Aini

This research aims to study how the learning planning and implementation of Physical Education, Sports, and Health learning can be used as evaluation material to improve Physical Education, Sports, and Health learning in schools. This research is action research with qualitative and quantitative descriptive methods using models from Kemmis and Mc. Taggart consists of one cycle or a round of activities which include: -1) Planning (plan), (2) Action (action), (3) Observation (observing), (4) Reflection (reflecting), and planning revision will be carried out cycle. Data processing is done by reducing data, presenting data, and making conclusions. The study results indicate that the planning and implementation aspects of academic supervision improve performance in developing learning devices and on the implementation aspects. From the results of the study, there were the findings of teacher performance not following the action in the field, such as the brakes that still copied paste from fellow teachers, the facilities were inadequate and had sports outside the school because the school was still new and did not have sports facilities, the clock of the faded subjects in SMK only 2 hours of lessons run out on a trip from school to the sport. The conclusion in this study is that after being done through the filling of teacher performance appraisal instruments given to physical education teachers, it can be obtained from cycle I to cycle II the results of better teacher educators after being given assistance and supervision.  


2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
Hande Baba Kaya ◽  
Öznur Kara ◽  
Pelin Ustaoğlu Hoşver

The aim of this research is to examine the ideal physical education profile from the perspective of physical education teacher educators, that is, academicians working in the physical education and sports teaching department of the faculties of sports sciences. Within the scope of this purpose, the views of the academicians about the pre-graduate education, the undergraduate education period and their own teaching were compared with their views on the ideal physical education teacher. In order to express the comparisons more clearly, metaphor was used. The academicians were asked to match the physical education teachers who influenced them the most from their past to the future, their own teaching and their views on the ideal physical education teacher, with the nature metaphor presented to them by the researchers. In the study, which was based on the qualitative research method, the “interview” approach and the “interview form method” were used as the data collection method. According to the stratified sampling method, the participants of the study; taking into account the academic titles of the participants; 3 professors, 3 associate professors, 3 assistant professor and 3 lecturers A total of 12 physical education teacher educators (academics) were determined. As a result of the research, it was observed that while the participants defined their pre-graduate teachers closer to the ideal teacher in terms of their physical characteristics, they defined their undergraduate physical education teachers and themselves as closer to the ideal physical education teacher in the main themes of personality traits, teacher leadership styles and teaching methods.


2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 424-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Alfrey ◽  
Justen O’Connor ◽  
Sivanes Phillipson ◽  
Dawn Penney ◽  
Ruth Jeanes ◽  
...  

Healthism is both an ideological and a regulative discourse that manifests as a tendency to conceive health as a product of individual choice. Healthism represents a collection of taken-for-granted assumptions, positioned at the intersection of morality, blame and health, that can lead to a privileging of ‘healthy’ and ‘productive’ individuals. It is argued that healthism is a key issue for physical educators and a significant focus for research. The validation of a scale – the Attitude Towards Healthism Scale (ATHS) – that seeks to quantify pre-service physical education teachers’ attitudes towards healthism is described. Participants were 201 pre-service teachers undertaking a Bachelor of Education degree in Australia. The factor structure of the initial 17-item scale was determined using an exploratory factor analysis followed by Rasch modelling and, lastly, confirmatory factor analysis. Initial exploratory factor analysis supported a unidimensional measure of healthism. Further Rasch modelling suggested that a refined 15-item ATHS scale functioned more effectively as two sub-scales that combined to provide a valid and reliable method of measuring the ideology of healthism. It is suggested that the ATHS will enable teacher educators and PSTs to discuss healthism with reference to attitudinal data, and examine how views change over time.


1993 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Graham ◽  
Mark Manross ◽  
Christine Hopple ◽  
Tom Sitzman

In recent years several studies have compared experienced and inexperienced teachers as they teach the same topics to similar groups of children or perform the same planning or observation tasks. This study compares the way 3 novice (NT) and 3 experienced (ET) teachers teach the same content (dribbling) to the same intact classes of children (Grades 3-5). Interviews, field notes, and document analyses were employed to determine how these 6 teachers varied in their planning and teaching. The NTs tended to be more subject-centered. They relied on textbooks and university courses to develop an extensive progression of tasks to present to classes. The lessons of the ETs, in contrast, were more child-centered and tailored to a particular class. The NTs, who tended to be unsure which tasks would succeed, presented more tasks. The ETs, who knew which tasks would be appropriate, devoted more time to fewer tasks and provided a higher percentage of learning cues. The results will be of particular interest to teacher educators; the implications are discussed in the concluding section.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1356336X2110288
Author(s):  
Jingwen Liu ◽  
Xiaofen D Keating

The development of a teacher identity (TI) profoundly impacts teacher education program graduates' career intention and teaching practices. Existing studies on pre-service physical education teachers' teacher identity (PPET-TI) have used qualitative methods to focus on the dynamic and reflective features of TI. Quantitative studies that help reveal the universal and stable aspects of TI across contexts are scarce, which may be due to a lack of measuring instruments of PPET-TI. This study aimed to develop and examine the psychometric properties of the PPET-TI Scale. Scale items and structure were developed based on the theoretical framework of dynamic systems model of role identity, interviews with 19 pre-service physical education teachers (PPETs), and content validity evaluations by 10 experts. The initial PPET-TI Scale was then validated among 523 PPETs. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed a measurement model including three domains: self-definitions, teaching goals, and professional responsibilities. This model showed an acceptable model fit to the data. Convergent validity, criterion validity, and discriminant validity of the scale scores were also within the acceptable range. The scores of the PPET-TI Scale also showed an acceptable internal consistency (Cronbach's α = 0.91 for the entire scale). Teacher educators may use the PPET-TI Scale to understand PPETs' current TI and identify areas for intervention. The PPET-TI Scale enables future quasi-experimental studies to identify influencing factors of TI development and examine the effectiveness of TI interventions.


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