Related Data for: Beginning physical education teachers’ experience of continuing professional development and school-based mentoring

The Academy of Singapore Teachers (AST) introduced the Instructional Mentoring Programme (IMP) to develop instructional mentors to support the development of beginning teachers. Concomitantly, Physical Education and Sports Teacher Academy (PESTA) developed the Physical Education Lesson Observation Tool (PELOT) to promote PE practitioners’ pedagogical knowledge and practices. It is envisioned that PESTA could help support AST’s IMP initiative by developing its own PE-specific, school-based mentors. Currently there is no available mentoring framework customised specifically for the local PE fraternity that PESTA can adopt. The present exploratory project sought to contribute to the development of this mentoring framework with the design, development, and implementation of effective and transformative professional development. Our fundamental idea is that the use of video-based instructional evidence and pedagogical practice exemplars can help beginning teachers and mentors focus on and improve particular aspects of their teaching and mentoring practices over time. The objectives of this project is twofold: • To further develop the teaching competencies of beginning physical education teachers (BPETs) through continuing professional development and school-based mentoring, with the use of PELOT, and • To enhance the mentoring capabilities of experienced PE teachers providing the schoolbased mentoring and support for BPETs.

新加坡教师学院（Academy of Singapore Teachers, AST）推出教学指导项目（Instructional Mentoring Programme, IMP），旨在培养教学指导者，以支持初任教师的专业发展。与此同时，体育与运动教师学院（Physical Education and Sports Teacher Academy, PESTA）开发了体育课堂观察工具（Physical Education Lesson Observation Tool, PELOT），用以提升体育从业者的教学知识与实践能力。据构想，PESTA可通过培养自身的体育专项校本指导者，为AST的教学指导项目提供支持。目前，PESTA尚无适用于本地体育教育界的定制化指导框架可供采用。本探索性项目旨在通过设计、开发并实施高效且具变革性的专业发展方案，为该指导框架的构建贡献力量。我们的核心理念为：借助基于视频的教学证据与教学实践范例，可帮助初任教师与指导者逐步聚焦并改进其教学与指导实践的特定环节。本项目的目标分为两点：
• 依托PELOT，通过持续专业发展与校本指导，进一步提升初任体育教师（Beginning Physical Education Teachers, BPETs）的教学能力；
• 提升为初任体育教师提供校本指导与支持的资深体育教师的指导能力。