The Teaching of Physical Education Amidst The Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The study aimed at exploring the implementation of physical education (PE) teaching during the Covid 19 Pandemic at elementary schools of sub-district of Balung, Jember, Indonesia. This descriptive research which follows the quantitative approach implemented the survey method using one shot case study. The samples participating in the study are 12 SE teachers. In order to gather the data, a questionnaire was distributed to the participants online through Google Form, containing 10 items. The data obtained were analyzed in descriptive quantitative through percentage. The findings indicate that all participants (100%) conduct the teaching and learning, where 50% of them delivered the teaching in online learning and 58% confirmed that the learning adheres to the lesson plans. Moreover, 67% of the participants informed that the learning materials are in the same order as stated in the lesson plans, 67% used WhatsApp groups as their teaching media, 67% of the participants informed that their students were enthusiastic and participated actively in the class, 50% have cooperated with their students’ parents for supporting learning, 67% of them stated the assessment was based on submitted exams and tasks, 58% stated that the assessment was less effective. Meanwhile, the analysis of learning indicators reveal that generally 41% of the participants claim difficulties in accessing good Internet connection, and 42% of the participants’ students could not afford smartphones for their learning and thus could not submit their tasks. Briefly the Covid 19 pandemic does not hamper the conduct of teaching and learning though it is now delivered online, however, in general the study found that the teaching and learning is less effective; therefore, more attention needs to be paid to students especially with their obstacles in using the learning media and accessing proper Internet connection.

Tracing physical education teachers' teaching difficulties in online era using teaching skill indicators

“…For this reason, the discussion of research results focuses more on the teaching difficulties of the two groups of participants based on indicators both at the stage of opening learning activities, core or organizing learning, to closing learning so that they can be a reference for teachers in making improvements and strengthening aspects of teaching skills that are difficult in teaching PE online. The reason is that during online learning, the effectiveness of PE learning is only able to reach 50% (Hambali et al, 2021) thus providing evidence that online PE learning is less effective (Widiyanto, Fepriyanto, & Prasetyo, 2021), even the axiological value of PE only included in the low category (Gusdernawati et al, 2021). Following are the results of elaborating the difficulties of teaching PE teachers in the online period using teaching skills indicators.…”