| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 教育行政與管理學系 === 99 === The purpose of this study is to understand teachers’ professional competence and demand for in-service training and to discuss differences among the P.E. teachers with different background. The content of the questionnaire includes personal basic information, a survey about the demand for in-service training and the scale for the demand. The professional competence scale employed Chih-Chang Shen’s Professional Competency in Health and Physical Education Learning Area Scale as the research tool, which contained thirty-three indexes in professional knowledge, teaching competence, curriculum ability, motor skill, multiple assessment, and professional growth. The population was elementary school P.E. teachers from north, middle and south areas in Hualien County. The sample was 140 P.E. teachers randomly selected from different types of elementary schools. From the survey returned, 127 were coded. The response rate for this study was 90.7 percent. The data was submitted for statistical treatments such as descriptive statistics, independent sample t-test, one-way ANOVA and percentage difference comparison.
The results of this study were as follows：
1.The result of self-assessment about total professional competence which elementary school P.E. teachers should have in Hualien county met medium-high level.
2.Female teachers’ result mentioned above was better than male ones; male teachers’ result in motor skill was significantly higher than female ones.
3.Senior teachers’ total professional competence was higher than junior ones, in which “teaching ability” and “multiple assessment ability” were more significant. The performance of junior teachers was better than senior ones in “motor skill”.
4.Teachers not graduated from P.E. or health departments had better performance in total professional competence than those graduated from P.E. or health departments.
5.Significant difference was not found on the content of demand for in-service training of teacher with various backgrounds, nor did one on various scales.
6.The percentage of demand for in-service training was higher than 50 percent in the types, the way and the time of in-service training, learning methods, and teacher qualification.
Key words: Health and P.E. teacher, P.E. teachers’ professional competence, demand for in-service training
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