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ARMOUR, K. M. (2010). THE PHYSICAL EDUCATION PROFESSION AND ITS PROFESSIONAL
RESPONSIBILITY … OR …WHY ‘12 WEEKS PAID HOLIDAY’ WILL NEVER BE ENOUGH. PHYSICAL
EDUCATION AND SPORT PEDAGOGY, 15 (1), 1-13.
Kathleen Wack and David Robertson
Learning Activator
“Beach” Volleyball
Purpose of the study• Critically reviews the concept of professional
responsibility in physical education
• Argues that “urgent changes are required to the ways in which teachers learn, teacher educators support professional learning, and researchers undertake, disseminate and are held accountable for their research.”
Background
• Question to teachers on vacation: “How are things going?” Teacher response: “Not great, but what other job can you think of that offers 12 weeks paid holiday a year?”
• What is it about the job of teaching that makes the length of the holidays away from it one of the key reasons for enduring it?
• Armour’s body of research is in professional development
Significance
• “The extended profession needs to find ways to work together more effectively to support teachers who exist to serve the clients of this profession: children and young people.
• It is suggested that one way to start this process is to refocus teachers on themselves as career-long learners, and then to consider the implications for the work of the wider PE profession; including researchers” (pg. 1).
Methods/Analysis• Makes 9 salient points in her discussion
• Game: Thumb ball
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1. Teachers need to view themselves
primarily as learners
2. Career-long learning should
matter to the entire physical education
profession
3. Much of the current professional
development structure/process is
incompetent
4. Expectations on the profession are
increasing, especially in health and positive youth development
5. Being held accountable for our work in health and
positive youth development may lead us to change what we claim,
or do, or both
6. ITT and CPD should focus on supporting teachers to devlop
progressively as learners throughout
their careers
7. The PE profession may need to offer
teachers more specialist pathways
8. If teachers learn progressively, then we need more and better
quality research to feed and support
them
9. PE researchers need to collaborate
with others to develop the scale and
quality of research
Findings/Main arguments• The need to better understand and continually
investigate the topics mentioned as a means to provide an educational physical education experience for students
Conclusions/implications for practice and/or future research
• Teachers as Learners• Career Long Professional Development• Offer specialist pathways—sport—activity • Health-related physical education• Youth sport development
What did we learn?
• The need for career long professional development—physical education instructors K through college (Carl the referee from the movie “Rebound”)