An Empirical Study of the Career Plateau Phenomenon of Physical Education Teachers in Universities and Colleges

By means of literature review,questionnaire survey and interview,this paper investigates and analyzes the phenomenon of Physical Education teacher's career plateau.The result shows that: 1) the Physical Education teachers' career plateau is in moderate level.The PE teachers get lowest secores in content plateau while highest in hierarchical plateau;2) The total plateau and factors change with the increase of their teaching time and their age,the level of hierarchical plateau is significant increase;There is no significant gender difference in total plateau,hierarchical plateau and centralized plateau,but the gender difference in content plateau(P0.01);There are extremely evident difference in total plateau,centralized plateau and hierarchical plateau among the Physical Education teachers with different educational background(P0.01).The conclusion is Physical Education teachers' career plateau is at moderate level,there are evident differences in the various factors between different gender,age,educational background,the teaching time and so on.