The perception levels for the ideal physical education teacher's profile of the students engaged in sports attending high schools (Konya country sample)

ABSTRACTThis is a research which is based on ?The perception levels for the idealphysical education teacher?s profile of the students engaged in sports attending highschools?.It was investigated that to what extent the opinions of the students engagedin sports about the qualifications of an ideal PE teacher and the qualifications of thePE teachers at their own schools have a similar characteristics.The survey technique and the scanning technique were used for gathering thedata which is needed for solving the reseach problem. Then, the survey developedwas applied to the fore group of 45 students engaged in sports and the correlationresults of each item in SPSS were found out. As a result of this study, 6 items wereleft out from the survey form and the survey consisting of 42 items was formed as afinal step. The data was presented on a table as a frequency, percentage, arithmeticalmedium and standard deviation. The level of meaningfulness was analysed with themethods of Chi- square and T- test.According to this research:The outcome figured out in the end of it indicates that the students engaged insports are in a higher expectation for the personal qualities and the qualities given inthe dimension of interpersonal relationships than the two sub- categories which arecalled as occupational knowledge and basic educational methods, and the testing&evaluation.When their agreement degree on the characteristics of an ideal PE teacheraccording to the types of schools that they attend- except from interpersonalrelationships- is considered that there was no difference among their answers to thedimensions of the other qualities.Considering that the type of the schools the students engaged in sports andalso the degree of the assesment about their teachers ,it was determined that thestudents in high schools & training schools have more positive thinking about theirteachers rather than the students in Anatolian, Science, and Anatolian TeacherTraining High Schools.At the end of this research some suggestions are presented.