COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TRADITIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL TEACHING STYLES IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS SCIENCES.

Introduction: Traditional teaching style is entirely classroom based, in which teacher gives direct instructions to the students and they learn through memorization skills. Whereas Professional teaching style is more activity based and students learn through human-environment interaction. Aim: To compare the effectiveness of Traditional and Professional teaching styles on intended learning outcomes in physical education and sports science curriculum. Design: Pre-post Quasi Experimental study. Methods: Total 132 senior secondary school students and 24 physical education teachers from various schools of Rohtak were recruited through convenience sampling. A set of questionnaires was administered during pre and post teaching sessions of both traditional and professional teaching styles amongst these students. Simultaneously, questionnaire related to national education goals, intended learning outcomes and its applications etc. are administered to teachers with traditional teaching styles. Results: Performance test scores has signicantly improved in both the Traditional and Professional teaching styles post teaching compared to pre test scores(p<0.05). But the post test scores of Professional teaching style is statistically higher that the post test scores of Traditional teaching style (p<0.05). Further teachers teaching in the schools are not much aware of professional teaching. Conclusion: Although both Traditional and Professional teaching styles are effective learning styles but Professional teaching style is found to more effective over the other.