Case studies of teacher behaviors in elementary school physical education classes

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to describe the teacher behaviors of elementary school teachers and to examine the effects of those behaviors on the student formative evaluation to physical education classes. The subjects were two elementary school teachers with 3 teaching units.
The teacher behaviors in those classes were observed by the systematic observation instrumentation that was modified with ALT-PE-TB and ORRPETE observation to physical education class by Takahashi et al. (1991). An instrument for student formative evaluation that was developed by Hasegawa et al. (1995) was utilized to collect data on it.
Four major teacher behaviors, those were “management”, “instruction”, “monitoring”, and “interaction” (Takahashi et al, 1991), differed between two teachers and changed during the teaching units. It was suggested that the differences among individual teachers did not influence the structure of teacher behavior on interaction in the natural setting. There were not clear relations between teacher behavior and student formative evaluation in those cases.