Teaching Physical Education in primary grades: it’s strategies, methods and assessment

Abstract

This narrative study focuses on teaching physical education in primary grades: its strategies, methods and assessments. Hence, to gather more insights and interpretations from the stories and experiences of participants, we used qualitative approach and interviewed 14 participants, 7 for in-depth and 7 for focus group discussion. Through the data bases of in-depth interview and focus group discussion, triangulation of the data was made. The result classified into essential themes and core ideas on the prevalent knowledge of Teachers teaching physical education. The five essential themes are: Strategies and Physical Education teaching, Teaching Physical Education and Methods, Tools assessment and Physical Education, Challenges in Teaching Physical Education in Primary, Interventions and Teaching Physical Education. Moreover, there are four major themes on how the primary teachers cope up with the experiences and these are: Coping Mechanism and strategies in teaching physical education, Coping methodology and strategies in teaching physical education, Coping mechanism and assessment in teaching physical education, Coping mechanism and challenges in teaching physical education. Furthermore, with these findings we come up the Insights of elementary teachers teaching physical education and these are: Realizations in teaching physical education, Realizations of physical education teachers, Realizations and tools assessment of physical education teachers, Realizations on the challenges of teaching physical education, Realizations and Interventions in teaching physical education. These finding enrich the knowledge in teaching physical education in primary grades specifically It’s strategies, methods and assessments.