The aim of this study was to investigate pre-service physical education teachers’ self-assessment of their competent levels in achieving the national standards for beginning physical education teachers (National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE), 1995). One hundred seventy–three pre-service teachers in 10 physical education teacher education programs completed the Achieving t...

The purpose of this paper was to review extant literature on multicultural education in the context of teaching physical education. More specifically, the article was designed to review the literature on physical education teachers’ knowledge and skills related to teaching culturally diverse students. The findings revealed teachers' knowledge and skills in multicultural education to embrace cul...

BACKGROUND High quality physical education programs in high schools may facilitate adoption of sustainable healthy living among adolescents. Public health nurses often meet students who avoid taking part in physical education programs. We aimed to explore physical education teachers' and public health nurses' perceptions of high school students' attitudes towards physical education, and to expl...

BACKGROUND Teachers in Ontario are expected to implement the physical activity guidelines in the health and physical education (HPE) curriculum document that was introduced in 1998. This study examined Toronto teachers' perspective on barriers to implementing these guidelines. METHODS Forty-five teachers from five Toronto elementary schools in which generalist classroom teachers provide physi...

The aim of this research has been to help improve the performance evaluation of physical education teachers by identifying factors involved in such a task and exploring their relevance through a survey of such teachers in Tehran. A cluster sample of 384 physical education teachers was selected from among all such teachers in Tehran’s 19 districts divided into five geographic areas. Data was col...

organizational citizenship behavior is defined as completely voluntary behaviors which staffs conducted them beyond their vocation and task expectations and organizational justice is served as how to deal with staff so that they can feel fair action including understanding of justice in payments and equality in organizational procedures and intra-personal behaviors in organization. the principl...

objective: the purpose of this study is to evaluate the relationship between perceived organizational justice and organizational commitment of physical education teachers in west azerbaijan province. methods: research method is descriptive-correlation conducted using the field method. statistical population includes physical education teachers in west azerbaijan which are 1091 persons. the samp...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between academic achievement and physical fitness in California schools. Data from the academic year 2004-2005 Fitnessgram were compared to reading, mathematics and science scores on the California Standards test (CST) of 253 elementary schools in the Orange County School District. Physical education teachers from the 10 lowest scoring ...

the purpose of the present study was to investigate mental health status in physical education teachers (pet) and non-physical education teachers (npet) based on demographic characteristics. 403 teachers consisting of 105 pets and 298 npets from west azerbaijan province were selected by multiphase cluster sampling method and completed mental health inventory (mhi). the results of the study reve...