My Proposed Action Research

    My action research topic is “Gender based participation in physical education”.  During my nine years of teaching at my school we have always had co-ed PE. My wonderings are: Does lack of participation come from being embarrassed around opposite gender?  Does self-esteem play a factor in participation of the student’s full potential? I feel there is a lack of participation between boys and girls due to the fact they are required to be in co-ed physical education at my current school. I feel separating them for a period of time will raise the student’s self-esteem, dress out rate and participation levels. There are a lot of activities we do that one gender or the other are intimidated by playing around the opposite sex. I also this will allow me the focus on gender based activities that the oppostie sex are not interested in.