Persuasive Essay On Teacher Education

Being a teacher is one of the most challenging jobs on the world. It requires patience, hard work, passion, dedication and willingness to sacrifice time so that the children will have guidance in learning not only to come to school but to develop holistically. Future teachers now and then are needed to be serious having the heart of service and eagerness to take education as a major career. A teacher is required to deliver the quality of education needed by the students that absorbs knowledge in achieving information in learning. As the time goes by, society dictates on the standard on what career of a certain student choose. Career choice is considered as one of the major areas of concern for young people nearing the end of their schooling

Previous research has shown that many teachers generally do not feel confident teaching PE (physical education) (Xiang, Lowy & McBride, 2002). Lack of confidence, knowledge, and expertise has been found to be related to the quality of PE teacher education teachers receive (Morgan & Bourke, 2005). Tremblay, Pella, and Taylor (1996) found that lack of teacher preparation was the greatest barrier to quality PE programs. Problems with the quality of PE teacher education may be worsen when teachers hold negative attitudes toward PE and question its value for children. This finding has been reported in the literature (Andrews, 1987; Faucette & Patterson, 1989; Howarth, 1987), although it is not undeniable. Other researchers have suggested that many teachers value PE but lacking of confidence. For example, Morgan (2008) found that teachers believe in the benefits of PE but would rather teach other subjects. Xiang et al. (2002) reported that many preservice classroom teachers were unwilling to teach PE but value it as an important curriculum