Teaching Duties and Challenges in Physical Education

1. Chapter 3 C H A P T E R 3 Duties and Challenges

2. Teaching Duties • Lesson planning and instruction • Prep time to develop instructional aids, grade tests, plan upcoming lessons • Positive role model • Positive attitudes about students and teaching • Positive values about being physically active • Positive behaviors • Positive appearance (continued)

3. Teaching Duties (continued) • Safety and liability • Liability: A legal responsibility enforced by courts • Responsibility • In loco parentis: Teachers act in the place of the parent. • Standard of care: Care that is within established standards of conduct.

4. Safety and Liability • Negligence: A tort (legal wrong) • Failure to act in a reasonable and responsible manner, often leading to injury • Types of negligence • Nonfeasance: Failure to do something that should have been done • Misfeasance: Wrongful action • Malfeasance: Illegal action

5. Negligence • Factors of negligence • Duty: Teacher has a legal duty to perform. • Breach of duty: Teacher did not perform a legal duty (nonfeasance or misfeasance). • Actual harm: Physical or emotional injury results. • Proximate cause: Breach of duty directly resulted in injury.

6. Areas of Litigation inPhysical Education • Supervision • Instruction • Facilities and equipment • First aid and emergency procedures • Transportation and field trips

7. Maintain a Safe Learning Environment • Foreseeability • Have an awareness of what is going on all the time. • Anticipate potential dangers based on what could happen. • Take immediate action to fix the problem

8. Nonteaching Duties • Assigned daily duties • Bus duty, hall duty, lunch duty, study hall • Meetings • Team and faculty, parents, professional teams (IEP), committee work • Coaching and advising • Interscholastic athletic teams • Student clubs (continued)

9. Nonteaching Duties (continued) • Professional development • Staying abreast of current literature • Maintaining credits for teaching licensure • Professional commitment • Becoming involved in organizations • Organizing or hosting special events • Advocating for PE

10. Issues and Concerns • Teacher−coach role conflict • Dual role and responsibilities of the teacher-coach • Coaching usually becomes the dominant role • Teaching usually takes on less importance, ultimately affecting the quality of the physical education program and instruction • Why is there a conflict?

12. Issues and Concerns (continued) • Instructional environment issues • Poor facilities and equipment • Affects instruction, learning, and behavior • Teacher and program accountability issues • Negatively affects physical education and its role in overall education • Results in bad press and negative views of the discipline

13. Accountability Issues • Grading and assessment • Grading only on dress and participation • Curriculum goals are not addressed or assessed • Poor Instruction • Poor teaching practices

14. Poor Teaching Practices • Lack of teaching effort • The three Rs: Take roll, roll out the ball, read the newspaper • Use of inappropriate games • Games are used quite extensively in PE • Many games do not contribute to sound instructional practices

15. Use of Inappropriate Games • Game are inappropriate if they • eliminate students from play, • use poor time-on-task strategies, • don’t facilitate an objective, • cause embarrassment, or • are unsafe. (continued)

16. Inappropriate Games (continued) • Why are these games considered inappropriate? • Dodgeball, duck duck goose, steal the bacon, kickball, Simon says, relay races, line soccer • Can you think of other inappropriate games? • How can you modify these games to make them better?

17. Summary • PE teachers perform many teaching and nonteaching duties. • Accountability issues that result from poor programs and instruction plague the profession. • It is up to you to use your physical education training to offer quality programs and teach using best practices.