A Study of Certain Bases for Selecting Content
of Professional Courses in Physical Education

The scientific selection of materials to be included
in professional courses in physical education is a problem
that is confronting the many teacher-training institutions
today. Obviously, there are many bases that may be used in
selecting the content of these courses.

It was the purpose of this study to investigate
two of these bases, namely: the time spent by teachers in
the field in performance of administrative and teaching
duties; and the subjective opinion of these same teachers:

as to the importance of professional training in the duties

 

involved,

These two bases would appear to be most worthy of
consideration as aids in the matter of sclecting the content
of the professional courses in physical education. Training
should be directly related to the duties the teacher-to-be
will be called upon to perform when he gets out into the
field. Furthermore, no one would appear to be in a better
position than the teachers in the field to judee as to the
relative importance of professional training in the activities
he is called upon daily to perform,

The question as to their worth as bases for evalu-
ating the content of the professional oourese has never been
really established however, and as stated above it was the
purpose of this investigation to study them through scien-

tific procedure.