Perception of Students towards the Physical Education Teachers Teaching Competency at Secondary Schools

The main objective of the study was to examine and evaluate the perception of students towards physical education teachers teaching competency in Harar town secondary schools. The study was used descriptive research design and qualitative research method. The target population of the study was all students of secondary schools in the study area and the researcher was used cluster sampling and simple random sampling method. The type of data that incorporated in the study was primary data. The study was used structured questionnaires and these questionnaires were constructed in 5-point Likert scale, and were analyzed using SPSS statistical software (v. 23.0) with the help of percentage, mean value, and table. The findings of the study showed that the overall perception of students (on the three domains) towards physical education teachers’ teaching planning competencies, teaching plan implementation competencies, and teaching motivational competency was moderate and on the other one domain (on personal and social competencies) was high. But in general from the finding of the study it can be conclude that the overall perception of students towards physical education teachers teaching competency was moderate. Based on the research findings, the following recommendations were given by the researcher, the secondary schools of the study area should give a great emphasis on teaching planning competencies, teaching plan implementation competencies, and teaching motivational competencies than personal and social competencies, the secondary schools of the study area should encourage the development of teachers’ performance, the teachers should improve or should emphasize on their teaching planning competencies, teaching plan implementation competencies, and teaching motivational competencies continuously, the secondary schools of the study area town should provide a given platform or podium for the students that enables them to increase their perception towards the physical education teachers teaching competencies