The role of the specialist supervisor in developing the performance of the physical education teacher and its relationship to job engagement in some schools in the city of Mosul

Abstract

This research aimed to identify the extent to which the specialized educational supervisor helps in developing the performance of the physical education teacher from the point of view of the teachers. It also aimed to find out the differences between the responses of the study sample according to the variables of academic degree and length of service, and to know the relationship and the percentage of contribution between the role of the specialized educational supervisor in developing the performance of the physical education teacher and job engagement. To achieve the objectives of the research, the researcher used the descriptive approach by following the survey method. The research sample was selected according to the intentional exhaustive method. It included teachers of physical education in some schools in the city of Mosul; (75) teachers. The researcher also used a questionnaire on the role of the educational supervisor in developing professional performance, which was designed by Al Shadaifat 2014). The questionnaire included (43) items distributed on five fields (planning, classroom visits, curricula and teaching methods, relationship with colleagues and the local community, and evaluation). After testing its validity and reliability, the questionnaire had (41) items in its final form. The job engagement questionnaire designed by Al-Ahmadi (2018) and modified by Al-Anzi (2022) was also used. It consisted of (18) items distributed over three fields; cognitive engagement, emotional engagement, and physical engagement. The data were processed statistically as the percentage, mean, standard deviation, alpha coefficient, one-way analysis of variance, and simple regression coefficient were calculated using the statistical program (SPSS). The results showed that the specialized educational supervisor plays a role in achieving a level of job engagement for the teacher of physical education.