THE EFFECT OF STUDENT TEACHING OF EPS ON THE SENSE OF COMPETENCE IN CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

The class handling is Nagar increasingly indispensable to the level of the training of teachers of different subjects (Hamre et al 2005), including the sport and physical education (EPS) courses. In fact, according to Perrault (2010) student teaching classroom management represents a considerable advantage and which belongs to the repository of professional skills as a competence skills at the heart of the business affecting service unit. This study is to search the effect of student teaching of EPS on the sense of competence in management of the class. The French version of the questionnaire by Perrault (2010) was used to calculate these effects. Our sample consists of 234 trainee teachers of the higher Institute of sport and physical education of Sfax who participated voluntarily in the study after a 8 month internship in different schools of the city of Sfax. The results showed a non-significant effect at p 0.05 of course on the sense of competence in classroom management. This may explain the study of Hastings (2005), which showed the difficult behaviour students cause a negative emotional reaction in the teacher who has the effect to decrease the level of feeling of competence including competence in classroom management. This can be further explained by the specificity of the discipline of EPS that has always struggled to find its identity in the school system compared to other disciplines rather than physical intellectual order (Perlebas, 2009). Keywords: the feeling of competence, student teaching, classroom management