PROGRESS REPORT
COMMITTEE ON TEACHER EDUCATION
COLLEGE PHYSICAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

January, 1940

 

Eiwood Craig Davis, Chairman

I. BEGINNINGS

To refresh our memories, it will be recalled that for a number of
years various members of the College Physical Education Association have
pointed out the need for improving teacher education. Finally, in 1934 it
was suggested that a committee be appointed to study a limited phase of the
whole problem, namely, the weaknesses of the professional curriculum as reported
by male physical educators teaching in the high schools of the country. The
study was completed and reported at the annual meeting of the C.P.E.A. in
1938.

In the meantime, many suggestions regarding other studies that
should be made of teacher education in health and physical education were sent
to the chairman of the committee. Consequently, at this same annual meeting it
was proposed and approved that the College Physical Education Association
sponsor a wide-scale study of undergraduate and graduete teucher education
in health and physical education. The next month, January, 1939, the following
men were selected to serve on the Committee on Teacher Education:

 

WEST MID~WEST
Mr. H. M.Foster Dr. S. C.Staley
Dr. John Bovard Dr. E.D, Mitchell
Professor W. R. LaPorte Dr. D. Oberteuffer

Dr. C. L. McCloy

SOUTH EaST

Professor 0. Cornwell Dr. Carl P.Schott
Dr. D. K, Brace Dr. F.R. Rogers

Dr. J.R, Sharman Dr. W. L. Hughes

Dr. Harry Scott Dr. Williim Meredith

At the same time the following advisory Committee was selected:

Dr. E.S,Evenden, Columbia University (Chairman)

Dean M.R.Trabue, The Pennsylvania State College

Professor 4. J.Brumbaugh, University of Chicago (Representative, North
Central Association)

Dean W. E. Peik, University of Minnesota

Professor L. A. Pittenger, Ball Stete Teachers College, Muncie, Ind,

Dr. William S. Taylor, University of Kentucky

President George W. Frazier, State College of Education, Greeley, Colorado

President R. L. West, State Teachers College, Trenton, N. J.

Dr. H.S. Caswell, Columbia Univercity

Mr. Ben W. Frazier, Senior Specialist in Teacher Education, U.S. Office

of Education