Music as a Management Tool in Elementary Physical Education: A Qualitative Investigation

Classroom management is an important aspect for a K–12 teacher in any content area. The same applies in physical education (PE). In PE, there are large spaces, students are moving, and in many cases, equipment (basketballs, rackets, Hula-Hoops, etc.) is involved, thus making PE a unique challenge in regard to classroom management for PE teachers. One tool an elementary PE teacher can use for classroom management is music. For this study, one school administrator, 19 elementary-aged students, and one PE teacher were interviewed about their perceptions of music as a management tool in elementary PE. Findings indicate that students prefer music as a management tool rather than the PE teacher using a whistle or loud voice.

Investigate the situation using information technology in elementary physical education teachers

Now day’s education is very important & more changes cause more attention to the training. These days training is the one of human body’s unavoidable needs. Training & increasing skills is a good way to encounter with the problems of today’s complex & changeable world. Education & especially training that train the new generation is the former need of a civilized society. The purpose of this research was Investigate the situation using information technology in elementary PE teachers of Babol city. The research type was descriptive, applicative and natural dispositional that was done by the field way. Statistical society included all the male & female employed elementary school’s PE teachers of Babol city. Statistical sample included 85 teachers that answered the questionnaire. The measuring tools were the Kalateahani (2009) (α=0.79). The used statistical way included the t-test & Pierson correlation coefficient. The research’s founding’s showed the teacher’s attitude about the IT was positive & there is a meaning relation among the skill, quantity of useag of them. About the use of IT & also there is not a meaningful difference among teacher’s attitudes about the use of IT in research & education task & quantity of need to education of them in difference sexuality & there is a meaningful difference among the skill & quantity of use of IT in research & education tasks in different education degrees.

Effects of a Content Knowledge Intervention on Instruction and Learning: A Pilot Study

The purpose of this pilot study was to examine the effects of improving a physical education teacher’s content knowledge and, in turn, the teacher’s instructional effectiveness and student learning in an upper elementary physical education setting. Four classes were randomly assigned to either a comparison condition (n4th = 9 students; n5th = 17) or an intervention condition (n4th = 7; n5th = 10). The teacher taught both conditions. The teacher first taught two classes in the comparison condition in a manner that he had taught for the past five years. Following the completion of the teaching, he received a content knowledge workshop. After the workshop, the teacher taught two classes in the intervention condition. Assessment of the teacher following the workshop showed that he obtained higher content knowledge scores than prior to the workshop. These improvements in content knowledge positively impacted his enacted teaching with more appropriate task selection and better instruction. Student learning also significantly improved in the intervention condition, not in the comparison condition, from pre- to posttest. The findings of this study extend the research demonstrating the effectiveness of improving the content knowledge of teachers in impacting student learning, in this case in the upper elementary grade band.