274 Teaching Pedagogical Content Knowledge and Content Knowledge in Teacher Education

Thursday, April 3, 2014: 10:15 AM-11:30 AM
Convention Center: 130
Physical Education: Professional Preparation/Post-Secondary
Intended Audience: Post Secondary Instructor/Faculty
Speakers: Phillip Ward, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and Harry Lehwald, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Physical education teachers need to know their content and also know how to teach their content. It is clear from the emerging research on content knowledge that strengthening pre-service teachers’ common content knowledge as well as specialized content knowledge is an important outcome in physical education teacher education. In this workshop we introduce the concept of a knowledge packet as a means to teach both common content knowledge and specialized content knowledge. (CEU)
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