현행 표준기반 학습에 관한 미 체육 교사와 교사 교육자들의 인식 탐색

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine physical education (PE) teachers’ and teacher educators’ perceptions on the current practice of standards-based learning in the United States. In total, twenty-six individuals were purposefully selected to participate in in-depth interviews that were inductively and deductively analyzed and tested. Themes indicated the physical educators have strong convictions to the broad PE standards allowing for local flexibility and teacher autonomy while they were also concerned that the standards produced a number of disparate school PE programs across states. Participants acknowledged that many teachers have limited knowledge about PE standards and a lack of capacities to incorporate the endorsed standards into the actual curriculum used in PE programs. The profession of PE must provide more explicit and specific guidelines for standards-based learning in order to sustain security and reliability as a relevant subject within school cultures. Further, Standards-based reform would have to be initiated in mutual cooperation with diverse scholarly/administrative groups and local entities to promote quality school-based PE programs.