Abstract:
Behaviour is defined as the action or activities of an organism that is anything that an
organism does, including physical action, internal physiological and emotional
processes and implicit mental activity. Teaching can in fact, be defined as conscious
behaviour that makes learning more probable and more efficient than it would have
been without that behaviour. Teaching behaviour can range from a simple smile or
part that encourages the learner to a superbly designed, programmed presentation of a
complex process that results in predictable, efficient and effective learning. Teacher
behaviour and learner behaviour, it is obvious that a complex interaction occurs in
teaching. The decisions and actions of a teacher affect the learning process. The
purpose of the study was to find out how trained and untrained teachers behave during
physical education lessons and to investigate their display of some critical value
which fosters learning. The study was conducted insome selected senior high schools
in the Ho municipality of the Volta Region.The sample comprised thirty teachers;
fifteen trained and fifteen untrained physical education teachers.Purposive sampling
was used for the study because they were the targeted group. Questionnaire was
distributed to the trained and untrained physical education teachers to answer. The
study was purely descriptive where percentage and frequency was employed in the
data analysis. The reliability test was also conducted using Cronbach‘s Alpha with a
value of 0.995 indicating that 99.5% variables were reliably piloted for the study.
Findings show that there was a significant difference between trained and untrained
physical education teachers based on behaviours.On the basis of the findings
appropriate recommendations were made.
Description:
A Dissertation in the Department of Health, Physical Education
Recreation and Sports of the Faculty of Science Education, submitted to
the school of Graduate Studies, University of Education, Winneba in
partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Master of
Education (Physical Education) degree.
DECEMBER, 2015