Keywords

student teaching, cooperating teacher, physical education

Abstract

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 teacher's 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.

Original Publication Citation

Christenson, R., & Barney, D. (2011). Cooperating teachers' expectations for student teachers during the student teaching experience in physical education. Asian Journal of Physical Education & Recreation, 17, (2) 6-15 .

Document Type

Peer-Reviewed Article

Publication Date

2011

Permanent URL

http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/3876

Publisher

Hong Kong Baptist University

Language

English

College

David O. McKay School of Education

Department

Teacher Education

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