Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to investigate the teaching problems of Physical Education Student teachers of colleges of Physical Education in the Northeastern Region of Thailand. Three sets of questionnaires in the forms of check-list, rating scales, and open-ended were constructed and sent to 30 supervisors, 90 cooperating teacher and 150 student teachers. Ninety-three percent of questionnaires were returned. The data were then analyzed in to means, percentages. The analysis of variance and the Newman-Keuls methods were also employed to determine the significant difference. It was found that most of the problems encountered by student teachers were having difficulties in lesson-planning both short and long range plans, setting up the behavioral objectives, and selection and organizing suitable activities according to the stated objectives. Besides, the schools were short of facilities and equipment, the funds for purchasing equipments and inability to improvise the teaching aids to suit appropriate teaching-learning activities. Moreover, the students were unable to utilize audio-visual aids in teaching. Class discipline was another posing problem as student teachers could not remember all the students names. The problems concerning pupils themselves were individual differences in skills, and unable to express themselves, especially in asking question. For the problems of supervisors and cooperating teachers, it was found that the supervisors and cooperating teachers had not enough time for giving advice to student teachers because they had the heavy loads of regular schedules, lacked adequate experience in supervision and there was no cooperation between supervisors and cooperating teachers, and the cooperating teachers did not have Physical Education background and at the same time these teachers did not understand in policies, objectives and program of practice teaching. Finally, it was also found that a longer period of practice teaching time was needed among the cooperating teachers and student teachers. Through the analysis of variance, it was found that the opinions as stated by supervisors, cooperating teachers and student teachers on the problems concerning teaching and learning, equipment, class administration, students, schools, student teachers and cooperating teachers were significantly different at the level of .05, while the opinions involving supervisors was found to be no significant difference at the level of .05.