This study was conducted to examine the effect of the Physical Education and Games Teaching course on certain physical fitness parameters of teacher candidates. The study group consisted of a total of 54 teacher candidates, including 27 who were enrolled in the Physical Education and Games Teaching course and 27 who were not (control group), all of whom were studying at the Faculties of Education of universities. Participants were divided into two groups: an experimental group and a control group. The study was conducted with second- and third-year students who had taken the Physical Education and Games Teaching course and first-year students who had not taken the course. In the study, balance, agility, flexibility, and vertical jump tests were administered to determine the participants' physical fitness components. Statistical analyses of the obtained data were performed using the IBM SPSS 25.0 statistical package programme. The Shapiro-Wilk Test was used to examine whether the variables in the research data showed a normal distribution. Matched pairs showing a normal distribution were analysed using the Paired Sample t-test. As a result, it was found that the Physical Education and Games Teaching course had a positive effect on balance and flexibility performance (p<0.05) but no significant change in agility and vertical jump parameters (p>0.05). In the control group, there was no statistically significant difference between the pre-test and post-test scores for all variables of balance, agility, flexibility, and vertical jump (p>0.05). The findings indicate that the Physical Education and Games Teaching course is effective in improving balance and flexibility performance among teacher candidates but does not have a significant effect on agility and vertical jump performance.

 

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