Data collected from teachers during secondary school volleyball quantified teacher behaviors related to high student involvement levels and examined student accountability. More effective teachers spent more lesson time in the functional behaviors of concurrent instruction and intervening instruction. Less effective teachers spent more time in…

To enhance teaching effectiveness, university professors need multidimensional feedback on classroom transactions. The Teaching Feedback Model is a process that combines systematic observation of student and teacher behaviors with analysis of student learning. The paper describes the model, demonstrating its current use in college-level physical…

Describes the theoretical underpinnings and methodology of research investigating the production and reproduction of gender in physical education lessons in three Australian schools, demonstrating how to explore questions raised within a feminist examination of the construction of gender in physical education using Foucault's poststructuralist…

Analyzes the nature of physical education teaching, reporting a study of work environment factors relating to Israeli physical education teachers' burnout. Surveys indicated that physical education teachers' burnout was lower than classroom teachers' burnout. Three work condition factors affecting burnout were low remuneration, bureaucratic…

Describes one Australian physical education (PE) teacher education (PETE) program, arguing that PE teacher preparation implicates PETE in the trend to proletarianize teachers' work while national claims for increased professionalism are heard. The PETE program represented teaching as technical and unproblematic, with faculty and students accorded…