This study was conducted to identify the difficulties that novice physical education teachers
face in curriculum reconstruction for better teaching and to provide deeper explanation of what
efforts they make and what process they undergo in order to resolve theses difficulties. For this
study, Strauss & Corbin’s (1998) Grounded Theory Methodology was adopted and nine novice
physical education teachers were selected as the participants, who work in co-ed junior hight
schools and have less than 5 years’ experience in teaching. Data were collected centered around
20 non-structured formal interviews, and cultural artifacts and literature research materials
related to this study were additionally collected. For data analysis, recursive analysis was
made by passing through each coding step while following the procedure of open coding, axial
coding, and selective coding. Research integrity was established through identification of
participants, multifaceted verification, review of co-researchers, and analysis of exceptional
cases. The findings are as follows: First, novice physical education teachers had difficulties due
to the lack of physical education pedagogical content knowledge and to the gap between the
ideals and reality in the process of curriculum reconstruction. Second, novice physical education
teachers were trying to make use of self-reflection, mutual negotiation, and media application
as their strategies to overcome the difficulties. Third, this process led novice physical education
teachers to gain a better insight into physical education curriculum, develop pedagogical
content knowledge, and become a skillful practitioner of teacher level curriculum
reconstruction.