The purpose of this study is to understand physical education teachers' professional lives and their difficulties in middle and high school by finding out the relations between teachers' concerns of professional lives and their mannerism of profession...
The purpose of this study is to understand physical education teachers' professional lives and their difficulties in middle and high school by finding out the relations between teachers' concerns of professional lives and their mannerism of profession to lay a foundation for the improvement of their professional competency. To achieve the aim of the study, it verified the extent of physical education teachers' concerns of professional lives and the extent of teachers' mannerism of profession based on their general features and it analyzed the relations between the two.
The respondents of this study were composed of the physical education teachers who are teaching in middle and hight schools located in Seoul, Kyungki and Jeonlanamdo as of 2008, and the samples of the respondents were extracted by random sampling. The number of valid samples of this study was 346 in total, but only 276 reponses were used in the final analysis, excluding reponses that were not replied or unfaithful.
The questionnaire of the study were composed of 81 questions in total, questions on general features of respondents (sex, age, period of teaching career, a class of school, classification of school type), 40 questions on teachers' concerns of professional lives and 41 questions on teachers' mannerism of professional lives. Among 81 questions, 50 questions were utilized in the final analysis, 22 questions on concerns, 27 questions on mannerism and 1 question on awareness of the concept of mannerism.
The responses of the study were analyzed by SPSS WIN 15.0 Version, and frequency analysis and technical statistics were done to examine the general features of the population and the relation between teachers' concerns of professional lives and the mannerism of profession. The T-test, One-way ANOVA and LSD statistic methods were utilized to analyze the extent of physical education teachers' concerns of professional lives and their mannerism of profession based on teachers' general features
The analysis results and conclusions from the study are as follows;
First, the study analyzing the teachers' concerns of professional lives and the mannerism of profession revealed that the teachers are most concerned on students in their professional lives and that they obtain task related mannerism most. In addition, the result verified that 83% of the teachers were aware of the concept of mannerism.
Second, it was found that the teachers' concerns of professional lives based on their general features did not indicate significant meaningful differences. However, by comparing the mean value , every sectors except concerns on task showed that the extent of the teachers' concerns of professional lives is higher when the period of teaching career is shorter. In addition, the extent of concerns of student, class and task was higher for physical educations teachers in middle school and the extent of concerns of self-interest was higher for physical education teachers in high school. In terms of school classification to private and public schools, the extent of concerns of students, class and self-interest was higher for the teachers in public school and concerns of task was higher in private school.
As for the teachers' mannerism of professional lives, it did not show meaningful differences significantly. However the mean value revealed that male teachers went through mannerism of profession more than female teachers and the teachers whose period of teaching career is more than 10 years felt mannerism of profession more than the teachers of less than 10 years. Furthermore, the mean values of mannerism on every concerns were higher for physical education teachers in highschool and in private school.
Third, the study found that there was a correlation between teachers' concerns of professional lives and teachers' mannerism of profession, concerns on task that lacks meaningful difference was excluded in this analysis. As the result, the study verified that student mannerism was much affected by concerns of students and class, and self mannerism was much affected by concerns on class.
To sum up, it verifies that middle and high school physical education teachers have the different extent of concerns of their professional lives and mannerism, and their concerns and mannerism have a meaningful inverse correlation.
Based on profound understanding of the teachers' development stages on their professional lives, physical education teachers could overcome their mannerism in school and promise changes in their professional lives by the improvement of teachers ' professional competency.