High School Physical Education Teachers and Their World of Work: Scope and Direction of the Project

There is a paucity of literature on the specific issues of high school physical and how those who do the job manage to create quality programs. a recent issue of Quest (Siedentop & O'SulIivan, 1992) featured secondary physical education, one might wonder whether a monograph so soon would be overkill. I would like to address this concem up front by that the intent of this project was significantly different from, though to, the Quest effort. The Quest feature presented a critique of factors within which contemporary physical education programs and might be designed, critiqued, and challenged. This project presents an study of the issues and concems about high school physical education and programming at a micro level with 11 high school teachers and world of physical education and teaching in today's high schools. The attempts to describe, discuss, and understand perceptions and practices these teachers of physical education, their students, and parents in light a contemporary analysis of physical education. The specific objectives of this were as follows:1. To describe these physical educators' sense of their work as high school and coaches, that is, the outcomes they have for their programs the degree to which they feel they accomplish these goals.2. To describe both the context of the workplace where these high school education teachers carry out their responsibilities as teachers and and the implications of such conditions for creating and sustaining and vibrant physical education experiences for young adults.3. To describe the rules, routines, and expectations these teachers communicated their students during the first days of school and the degree to these rules were adhered to and enforced during the year.4. To describe and analyze the official and functional curricula implemented these high school physical education teachers and the instructional through which these curricula are made manifest.5. To investigate the accountability task structures related to systematic evaluation, assessment, and objective grading used in these settings.6. To determine the attitudes of these teachers, their students, and the parents the goals, objectives, and content of high school physical education how these programs contribute to the students' overall education.