This study was designed to assess the perceived inservice training needs of Florida's public school physical education teachers for the handicapped, to prioritize those assessed needs, and to identify the preferred format for delivery of inservice training. The study involved 301 randomly selected physical education public school teachers from 43 counties in the State of Florida. A stratified random sample of Elementary, Junior-Middle and Senior High School physical education teachers was selected representing 43 South, Central, and North Florida counties. A random selection was employed to identify seven teachers from each school district. The 301 physical education teachers revealed needed inservice training for teaching the handicapped in such areas as: (1) methods and techniques, (2) supervisory consultation and provisions, (3) curricular program organization and materials, (4) administrative policies, and (5) professional and personal growth. The preferred formats for delivery were ranked as: (1) workshops, (2) seminars, (3) summer institutes, (4) professional meetings/conferences, and (5) college and university courses. The open ended question indicated that teacher's perceived inservice training needs can guide local school district supervisors and administrators in the organization of effective inservice programs by making them more relevant to teacher's specific inservice training needs. Specifically, supervisors and local school districts need to: (1) assist teachers needing updated skills, information or materials, (2) identify the area in which inservice training is needed through teacher's perceptions, (3) work more closely with teachers without experience in teaching the handicapped, (4) make available local resource personnel, (5) provide more conducive inservice programs through continuous teacher evaluations, and (6) promote coordination / of local, state and national consultants in planning inservice training programs. The investigator achieved the results of this study through the use of the following analysis procedures: (1) summary analysis, (2) frequencies, (3) computed means, and ranking technique. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-05, Section: A, page: 1468. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74821 |
| Contributors | BARNES, JULIA COBB., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 159 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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