A Pilot Study Examining High School Physical Education Teachers' Understanding and Use of Mosston's Style(s) of Teaching

The purpose of this project was to develop a questionnaire that could lend insight to physical educations teachers’ perceptions and use of Mosston's Teaching Styles. The researcher designed a pilot study in which he distributed the questionnaire to six teachers from three Santa Barbara District High Schools. Results show that the six teachers were familiar with all Mosston’s Styles. However, citing circumstances such as class time and class sizes, the participants in this study did not use all of Mosston’s Styles. These results may be useful for physical education teacher educators to help them understand teachers’ knowledge of Mosston’s Styles, and what they can do to help teachers by giving them strategies to help use different teaching styles, despite reasons such as limited time and large class sizes.

Name thesis:degree_name

MS in Kinesiology

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Kinesiology

Year dc:date.available

2010

Author dc:creator

• Pierce, Greg L.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Kellie Green-Hall

• Mosston
• Spectrum of Teaching Style
• Kinesiology
• physical education
• pe
• Curriculum and Instruction
• Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
• Junior High, Intermediate, Middle School Education and Teaching
• Other Teacher Education and Professional Development
• Secondary Education and Teaching

Identifier

10.15368/theses.2010.187

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.calpoly.edu:theses-1446