Chapter 4: Physical Education Teacher Education Initial Certification: Meeting the Challenges

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Phillip Ward The Ohio State University

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1123/jtpe.2020-0242
Keywords:
preservice teachers; teacher education curriculum; teacher education reform
First Published Online:
18 May 2021
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Volume 40: Issue 3
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372–381
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The physical education teacher education (PETE) faculty charged with oversight and delivery of initial teacher licensure programs confront several challenges. Some necessitate responses to revised and new standards, while others can be reframed as timely opportunities for improvement and innovation, whether in response to or in anticipation of rapid, dramatic societal change. Six examples of challenges as opportunities are discussed in this chapter: (a) the need to determine the skills, essential knowledge, values, and sensitivities for work practices in the schools of the future; (b) the dual priority for evidence-based practices in PETE and in school programs; (c) PETE faculty members’ obligations to adapt their pedagogical practices and revise preservice programs in concert with expert, veteran teachers from schools with exemplary programs; (d) manifest needs to make choices among competing, evidence-supported physical education program models; (e) needs and opportunities to redesign PETE programs, especially those located in kinesiology departments; and (f) emergent policy imperatives to demonstrate the value-added effects, both short- and long-term, on tomorrow’s teachers.

Ward is with the Department of Human Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. Mitchell is with the Graduate School, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA. Lawson is with the Department of Educational Policy & Leadership, University at Albany Suny, Albany, NY, USA. van der Mars is with the Department of Secondary & Physical Education, Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ, USA.

Ward (Ward.116@osu.edu) is corresponding author.
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