(Department of Physical Education,South China Agriculture University,Guangzhou 510642,China) Abstract: By combining questionnaire survey with behavior event interview (BEI), the authors preliminarily estab-lished a Chinese physical education teacher competency model, which includes such 14 competence characteristics as friendliness and patience, communication skills, active attention and encouragement, organization and manage-ment skills, teaching methods and means, specialized knowledge and skills, skill showing ability, respecting others, fairness and justice, emotional health, awareness of innovation, awareness of lifetime learning, post fondness and career devotion, and sense of responsibility, and sorted these characteristics into such 5 physical education teacher competence characteristic groups as caring and communication, professional makings, individual traits, professional enhancement, and occupational preference. The authors found that as compared with other post competency models, this physical education teacher competency model contains some unique competence characteristics, and that gen-eral teacher competency models are not completely applicable to physical education teachers. Key words: school physical education;physical education teacher;competency model |