Applying the Personal and Social Responsibility Model as a School-Wide Project in All Participants: Teachers' Views

Front Psychol. 2020 Mar 27:11:579. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00579. eCollection 2020.

Abstract

The present study aims to apply a program based on Hellison's Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Model (TPSR), traditionally used in Physical Education, to other educational participants and examine the assessment of the teachers who carried it out during the 2018-2019 school year. The program was applied over 8 months of one academic year and during at least 60% of the weekly class hours. Initially, 30 teachers participated, of whom 16 were involved in the interviews carried out, all of them being Secondary Education teachers. We used qualitative methodology through content analysis carried out with ATLAS.ti 7.1.3. The instruments used to collect information were semi-structured recorded group interviews. The conclusion is that the Personal and Social Responsibility Model can be applied to all participants in the curriculum and is adaptable to any content and type of student body. As a basis for future research, we suggest the application of the model by all teachers involved in the same school year and the participation of students' families.

Keywords: education; innovation; methodology; physical education; teacher training.