SPECTRUM COLLEAGUES
Huseyin Coskun
School of Sport Sciences and Technology, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
Email:
hcoskun@hacettepe.edu.tr
I was first introduced to the Spectrum of Teaching Styles when I was at the Becolar Science Education (1986) at the University of Middle East Technical University. I have worked as a lecturer at Hacettepe University, School of Sport Sciences and Technology since 1989. As part of a school curriculum policy (1990-1999), at the third grade, the students were learning how to teach. Thus, the students were introduced to the Spectrum of Teaching Styles and expected to prepare an episode and put it into application. There were nine different sport branches and I was teaching swimming and life saving courses using Spectrum. After 1999, the Curriculum was changed, but I am still using the Spectrum because it is an intensive portfolio for how to learn and how to teach. It helps the students and teachers to discover personal capabilities, boundaries and go beyond them, while developing sensitivity to his/her personal awareness. With my dissertation on “Effect of Using Visual Information in Self-Check Style on Grab Start Skill Retention, Knowledge, and Anxiety Level”, I have started a new life in Spectrum.
About Hüseyin Coskun
Hüseyin received his Ph.D. in Sport Pedagogy (2008) at Hacettpe University of Sport Sciences and Technology in Ankara Turkey; his M. Sc. in Sport Psychology (1997) at Hacettepe University, School of Sport Sciences and Technology, Ankara Turkey; and his B.Sc. in Physical Education and Sport (1989) at Middle East Technical University (METU), Faculty of Education, Department of Physical Education and Sports, Ankara Turkey