Cooperating Teachers’ Expectations for Student Teachers During the Student Teaching Experience in Physical Education

Abstract

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in English; abstract also in Chinese. The student teaching experience is important. The student teacher wants to be successful during their student teaching experience. Part of working successfully with the cooperating teacher can greatly impact a student teachers success. The purpose of this study was to investigate school based cooperative teachers’ experiences with student teachers for the purpose of better preparing physical education teacher education majors for their student teaching. For this study 100 experienced physical educators were surveyed to find out what student teachers should expect to do to be successful when student teaching. One of the main findings from this study was for student teachers to successfully communicate with their cooperating teacher. 實習教學的經驗是教師成功的要素。本研究的目的是調查實習教師與學校教師的經驗交流，共調查了100位具備豐富教學經驗的體育教師，結果顯示實習教師與本科教師溝通是最重要的因素。