Examining pedagogical knowledge and skill levels of physical education teachers in terms of some variables

The aim of this study is to examine the pedagogical knowledge and skill levels of physical education teachers working in the province of Elazig according to various variables. The study group of the research consists of 212 physical education teachers working at various levels in the province of Elazig. Questionnaire form was used as data collection tool in the research. In research, Wong, et al. (2012) and adapted into Turkish by Gökçek and Yılmaz (2019) the "Pedagogical Knowledge and Skills Scale" (PKSS) was used. Teachers' gender, age, education status, level of education, type of high school, working education school, maritual status, type of sports, graduated department, pedagocical formation status were determined. According to the marital status variable of the teachers; single teachers were found to be higher than married teachers in PKSS and its sub-dimensions (p<0.05). It was observed that the pedagogical knowledge and skills of the teachers were significantly different according to the age variable, "PKSS", and it was found that the 25-30, 31-40 age group teachers were higher than the 41-50, 51 and older age group teachers (p<0.05). According to the pedagogical knowledge and skills of the teachers, it was seen that the teachers with a professional seniority of 1-10 years were higher than the teachers with a professional seniority of 21-30 years (p<0.05). It was seen that the teachers who graduated from sports management were higher than the teachers who graduated from the coaching department. According to the pedagogical sports are higher than the teachers who are interested in team sports (p<0.05). According to the process variable of teachers' pedagogical knowledge and skills, it was seen that teachers who received pedagogical formation after undergraduate education were higher than teachers who knowledge and skills of the teachers, according to the variable of the type of sport that the teachers are interested in, it was seen that the teachers who are interested in individual received pedagogical formation during undergraduate education in the total of "PKSS" (p<0.05). As a result; It has been determined that physical education teachers' PKS levels are generally high. Pedagogical knowledge and skill levels decrease as age increases, new teachers have higher pedagogical knowledge and skill levels, teachers dealing with individual sports, teachers graduated from Sports Management and teachers who received formation education after undergraduate education have higher pedagogical knowledge and skill levels than others. Keywords: Physical education, teacher, formation, pedagogical knowledge and skills.