Mutual information transfer between teacher and the students

The aim of this work is getting acquainted with lesson activities of a teacher and learners dominating in teaching. It seems interesting to find out which of them form interactions of feedback nature. The relations between the features of an authoritarian personality and preferred by them teaching methods were also researched. The research covered total of 46 physical education lessons conducted by teachers from  primary schools. The research method consisted in the observation of the process of teaching-learning, which took place during the lessons and was their main goal. The observation was performed with the use of Flanders technique (Flanders 1970) with the help of observation sheet and assistance of the film recording technique (video camera). The recording sheet covered actions of a teacher (10 categories) and learners (7 categories), every 10 seconds. Within the process of motor teaching teachers much more often transmit information towards learner than receive it. This relation is more often found in women than men. Among didactic activities of teachers one can observe the domination of verbal activities and those related to the observation of learner. Women talk more, while men observe more. The mutual arrangement of the activities of a teacher and learners confirms the low level of activity of learner in the information transfer towards teacher. Learner only listen and practice. The regulatory activities occur in all teacher and learner activities. Correction and change of the direction of the information transfer, being the reinforcement, constitute approximately 20% of the activities. Such activities occur more often with men than women. Teachers showed a balanced level of authoritarian and democratic features.