The Role of Physical Education Cooperative Teachers During Student Teaching Field Practicum

Abstract

The Main Purpose of this study was to identify duties that cooperative teachers in Qatari Schools provided to student-teachers. Those duties is considered of great importance in order to facilitate student-teachers' missions and tasks in the field practicum period. In additiont the study aimed at examining the significant difference of those duties and accommodations pertaining to some independent variables such as gender, nationality and level of expertise of teachers. A questionnaire was constructed for the purpose of the study and has both reliability and validity coefficients checked out. The sample of the study was (N=60) stuent - teacher chosen on purposive manner and the cooperative teachers in their schools, during spring semester 2000. Data was gathered and treated by utilizing the proper statistical techniques. The study revealed the following results : - The student - teachers conceived the duties that provided by the cooperative teachers to by satisfactorily. - No significant differencies were found between cooperative teachers duties as evaluated be student-teachers in some variables such as gender and teaching experience of cooperative teachers. The study recommended that there is such a need to have more cooperation and coordination between Qatar University and the ministery of Education to reach a real partnership.

هدفت الدراسة إلى التعرف على الخدمات والأعمال التي يقوم بها معلمو التربية الرياضية المتعاونون لتسهيل مهام الطلبة المعلمين فع مدارس التطبيق أثناء فترة التربية العملية، كما استهدفت التعرف إلى الفروق في تقييم الطلبة المعلمين .