Abstract:
The Purpose of this study was to investigate the teaching problems of physical education student teachers, Faculty of Education, Chulalongkorn University. Three sets of questionnaires in the forms of check list, rating scales, and open-ended, were constructed and sent to 11 supervisors, 39 cooperating teachers and 61 student teachers. Ninety-three percent of questionnaires were returned. The data were analysed into percentages, and means. The analysis of variance method was also used to determine the level of significant difference. It was found that the problems most encountered by student teachers were setting up the behavioral objective, selection and organization of activities according to the stated objectives, selecting a suitable method of teaching for each activity and students needs, and the problems concerning the lack of facilities and the inadequate equipments and supplies. In addition to these, the student teachers also had a problem on the equipments and supplies management. The problems most encountered by supervisors and cooperating teachers were the shortage of time in supervising their student teachers due to their heavy regular schedules. Furthermore, it was also found that there was a poor cooperation between supervisors and cooperating teachers. Through the analysis of variance it showed that there was a significant difference among the point of views as stated by supervisors, cooperating teachers and student teachers on the problems concerning teachers and student teachers on the problems concerning teaching and conducting physical education class at the level of .01 For the opinions concerning the problems on the other phases of student teaching, such as, the problems on the facilities and equipments, class discipline, pupils and student teachers themselves, schools, cooperating teachers and supervisors were not significant difference at the level of .01.