ABSTRACT
This chapter intends to help aspiring and emerging teachers of physical education to reflect on why they want to become a physical education teacher, but also the processes they are likely to experience and the challenges they will probably encounter. Ken Green suggests that physical education professionals tend to write and talk about the subject in a manner that not only takes certain beliefs for granted but also presents them as orthodox, even factual. One of those taken-for-granted assumptions is that physical education is about sport, and this has led to a lack of coherence and continued concern about the relationship between physical education and participation in sport. Sport is often seen as the conduit between physical education and physical activity. Some physical education teachers appear to have severed all ties with the very subject to which they have purported allegiance and have defected to the coaching of sport, while others have divided loyalties.
