Qualities & Competencies of PE and Health Teacher

A competent teacher is qualified, enthusiastic and _____________.

• professional

• knowledgeable

• prepared

• smart

When it comes to encouraging their pupils to be active and make healthy lifestyle choices, PE teacher should lead by example and be a good role model. This implies that?

• they need to have a healthy lifestyle to enable them to motivate students to participate in PE and be healthy.

• they need to encourage their pupils to follow a healthy lifestyle

• they need a lot of work to do in setting good examples in learning process

• they inspire learners to do physical activities as much as they do

PE teacher has to have the ability to break a PE lesson down in a way that all students are able to understand. This is under what quality?

• Interpersonal skills

• Communication skills

• Athletic ability

• Teaching ability

Under Interpersonal Skills,

PE teachers must be able to communicate with all the stakeholders of the school in order to assure collaboration so that each student is able to develop in the best way that they can. Which of the following is not a stakeholder?

• Parents

• Government

• School Principal

• None of these

This is yet another key quality that you need in order to be a good quality PE teacher, because it’s helps you to ensure that your students have a clear understanding of the tasks in which you set them during a PE lesson.

• Teaching ability

• Interpersonal skills

• Communication skills

• Organization

When some of your pupils is having difficulty understanding something in your lesson, it means pupils has their own unique way of learning, so the ‘one size fits all’ approach does not really work. Therefore you should be ________ and have the ability to _________ your teaching style to try other approaches to helping your students understand something or participate fully within a session.

• smart, communicate

• patient, adapt

• considerate, improve

• role model, demonstrate

It is always important that you have a contingency plan in place should you be moved, and you are unable to do the session that you were meant to be delivering. This will make you an _________ PE teacher.

• organized

• intelligent

• well-prepared

• extraordinary

If the teaching and learning process become dull during your discussions about first aid, which activity is BEST for making it fun and exciting?

• have recitation

• role playing

• demonstration

• movie viewing

Describing and application of the PE and Health curriculum context which includes history, philosophy, physiological concepts, skillful movement and health literacy skills is your competency in _____________________.

• Content and Foundational Knowledge

• Instructional Delivery and Management

• Disciplinary Literacy

• Planning and Implementation

Skillfulness of a PE and Health Teacher means, he/she is able to demonstrates competency in all fundamental motor skills, as well as skillful performance in a minimum of four physical education content areas. The following are examples of activities in the PE content areas EXCEPT?

• Hockey

• Water polo

• Orienteering

• None of these