Practices and Challenges of the Internship Students in Physical Education

This study determined the practices and challenges of the internship students at Ningxia University in China under the Department of Physical Education. The target participants of the study were 300 intern students. All intern students of physical education provided their views about the different practices and challenges they experience under teaching job content and clerical job content by answering the survey questionnaire which was a researcher-made instrument. This study utilized a quantitative descriptive correlational research design where descriptive and inferential tools were used. In the survey, the result showed that there is a significant difference in the experienced practices and challenges of student interns when it is grouped according to profile specifically under the teaching job content. It was preparation, planning, and instructional materials that were challenging and the internship students are more likely to experience hardship focusing on teaching-related activities rather than clerical activities that have minimal to no relationship to teaching physical education. This only implies that to lessen the challenges in acquiring knowledge in teaching physical education, the school must focus and provide more time for the students to handle classroom management together with students instead of doing clerical jobs in different government offices in China.