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    Assessment on Teaching Methods of Physical Education Teachers during Practical Class: In the Case of Three Government Primary Schools at Woreda 1, Yeka Sub City, Addis Ababa
    (Addis Ababa University, 2023-10) Salem Difabachew; Tesfaye Asgidom(PhD)
    The main purpose of the study is to assess the teaching methods of physical education teachers during physical education practical class at Yeka sub city, woreda 1 government primary schools. It also aimed at finding out factors contributing to the gap between physical education teachers’ theoretical knowledge of teaching practical class and their actual teaching. The total populations of the study were 18 physical education teachers (13 males and 5 females) with the age range of 20 to 41. Thus, the researcher has used purposive sampling to take all physical education teachers (18/18) of the total populations. Mixed approach involving both qualitative and quantitative approaches was employed for the study. Observation, questionnaire and focus group discussions were used to collect both qualitative and quantitative data. The qualitative data was collected from focus group discussion held with 9 of the teachers systematically taken from the 18 populations of the study. There was also a classroom observation aimed to see all the teachers’ overall physical education practical class teaching practice. The quantitative data was drawn from questionnaire administered to all the teachers. The data collected was analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The findings of this study revealed that the teaching methods used by physical education teachers are inappropriate for practical classes. Teachers use only demonstration and lecture while having many other methodologies during practical class. They most of the time give balls to their students and leave them till the bell goes. Thus, teachers are not teaching in view of the PGDT (the how to teach) courses they have taken in higher institutions. Majority of the teachers do not meet the minimum qualification. There is lack of on-job trainings on physical education practical class teaching methodologies. The administrators in particular and the school societies in general haven’t good attitude to the subject. They perceive the subject as having no use than entertaining students. In all the schools observed there are no sport facilities or equipments except few balls. Finally, the study suggests that teachers have to teach the practical class in accordance with the knowledge they have gained in the PGDT courses of the teaching institutions. Practical and gap filling professional assistance i.e sustainable trainings on the current physical education practical class teaching and learning practices should be provided to the teachers. Moreover, the school should assign teachers who meet the minimum qualification to the level. Besides, different awareness creation stages should be prepared with the schools’ administrators in particular and the school societies in general on the role of the subject.