Professional competence perceptions of physicaleducation teachers

In this research, physical education teachers? efficacy perceptions and their behaviors on classroom management have been analyzed comparatively in the terms of the variables that are their professional experience, sport branches, attending in-service training, levels of school they teach in, the success of school teams they train and doing sports regularly.The research has been carried out by Comparative Correlational SurveyModel, 247 physical education teachers have attended who teach in Kırşehir, Kırıkkale, Kayseri and Yozgat provinces in 2007-2008 Acdemic Year. Feedbacks of 227 physical education teachers have been evaluated. The data of the research have been collected with ?Physical Education Teachers Efficacy Scale?In the analyze of the research data, ?Arithmetic Mean, Standard Deviation, Weighted Average, Pearson Moment Correlation Analysis and t. Test? have been used.In the research, it has been observed that physical education teachers have perceived themselves in a satisfactory level in all efficacy fields. However, several differences have been observed due to their sexuality, attending in-service training, the success of school teams they train, doing sports regularly. Moreover, while no differences between physical education teachers? sport branches, levels of school they teach in and the efficacy perceptions has been observed; a significant relation between their professional experience and the efficacy perceptions has been observed.