COMPETENCY-BASED TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAMME IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION
COMPETENCY-BASED TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAMME IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION
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2006-12
Authors
Suleiman, Mariam Adefunke
Umaru, Musa
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Abstract
One of the millennium development goals is to achieve universal primary education
by the year 2015. Sports and Physical education constitute an essential component
of quality education. They promote positive attitudes, values and skills that have
perceptible and lasting impact on young people. Such impact can be made only
when physical education is taught with relevant skills and methods. This is possible
when physical education teachers are adequately and appropriately trained in the
content and methodology of physical education. This is mainly because of the fact
that the impact of physical education on the lives of people depends mainly on those
who teach it. The existing teacher training programmes have not been able to cope
with a variety of problems. An attempt is made in this paper to suggest a model of
undergraduate teacher education in physical education that can meet the new
socio-cultural and economic demands. This model is based on the concept of
competency-based teacher education, which emphasizes accountability in teacher
education. Expected teaching competencies to be achieved by the student
teachers are predetermined and a learning environment to develop these competencies is designed and appropriate evaluation procedures are suggested to determine the degree of achievement of the competencies by the student teachers. Remedial procedures are suggested when the student teachers fail to develop required competencies.
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COMPETENCY-BASED TEACHER,, EDUCATION PROGRAMME, PHYSICAL EDUCATION