The Study on P.E. Instruction in the Primary School Teacher and Usage of Materials for Instruction Issued by MEXT

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to analyze the usage situation of materials for P.E. instruction issued by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), and to examine factors associated with teachers, which affected the usage rate of materials. The questionnaire survey was conducted for all teachers and lecturers who worked in public schools of Tokyo, Okayama, and Mie Prefecture.
As a result, the usage rate of the materials changed with a teachers’ attributes. First of all, the usage rate changed with sex. Among primary school teachers, male’s usage rate of materials was higher than female’s even though a composition rate of male was fewer. Secondly, the usage rate changed with teaching career. The usage rate was higher among the group of teachers having a career from fourth to tenth years than the other groups. Thirdly, the usage rate changed with the teacher’s awareness about “ability of physical education instruction”. The teachers who answered to be good at physical education instruction showed higher usage rate of materials. Furthermore, the teachers who were confident in P.E. instruction tended to recognize that “the materials were very useful”.
Next, the difference in awareness of occupational ability influenced the usage rate of materials. By factor analysis, the awareness of occupational ability was divided into three factors ; “ability of control for children”, “designing ability of P.E. instruction”, and “practical ability of P.E. instruction”. The group of teachers who were especially good at “designing ability of P.E. instruction” tended to positively utilize all of the material than the other groups.
In this study, it was revealed that the difference of teacher's attributes and their awareness of occupational ability affected the usage rate of use of materials issued by MEXT. From the result, some subjects to be debated as how to publicize the materials, and to construct contents of the material were found so that would be more effectively used and the usage rate would be increased. And also, the result of the study provided significant knowledge, especially to improve the way of training workshop for in-service teachers.