Browsing by Author "Rytkönen, Ida-Maria"

The objective of this research was to examine attidutes of teachers towards general education differentiation and differentiation of physical education. Also investigated teachers attidutes towards physical education and skillful student. The research emphasized the differences of skillful student and frail student. This phasing of a question has been born based my bachelor`s thesis and my own experience. The research was carried out as qualitative attidute survey and interviewees was divided in two groups. Both of them was three elementary school teachers. The material gathering methods was performed either at schools or homes of the interviewees. The research material was transcribed and after this the material was categorised and analysed utulising different themes. Interview claims were coded by colours and research questions. After this these groups sought differences and similaritys. Every research questions consisted several themes. These themes were established in research results. As a result, the teachers had a contradictory attidute towards differentiation. Differentiation was important but challenging. Challenges was lack of time and space and the wellbeing of teachers. One of the results was emphasis frail students differentiation in real subjects and skillful students differentiation in practical subjects. Differences of students were noticed diffe-rent ways. Teachers own enthusiam and attidute was an important role in terms of students intrest and motivation. The research came out that teachers has a big responsability as a physical education bredeer. This theme is important to research beacause differentiation seem to be a baseline of differentiation. Students learning suffer if differentiation doesn´t work. As a conlusion, it can be stated that teachers reconize the importance of differentiation but doesn´t execute it at work like they want. Physical education has been investigated a little. This topic is important to study so that teachers gets more information about differentiation and they can self reclect and this way give high quality teaching for the students.