"The purposes of this study were to investigate the types of students' misbehaviors perceiving elementary physical education(PE) specialists and how to cope with them. For this purpose, participants consisted of five elementary PE specialists(4 male, 1 female) with purposeful sampling who has worked the career of PE in elementary school located in D city (mean 4.2 years). Data were collected via in-depth interviews, participant observation and documentation during 6 months. The collected data were analyzed by process of transcription, coding, and theme formation. Also, in order to enhance the validity of the data collection, triangulation, peer debriefing, and member check techniques were used. Results indicated that the types of students' misbehaviors were passive class participation, mischief, excessive competition, maladjustment of team, sensitivity and peer groups. Their coping strategies were eye contact, contact with classroom teacher, compliment, communication, change(changing) teaching method. The limitations of elementary PE specialists were lack of linking to students' parents and communication problems with classroom teacher, and also there were a variety of educational needs. Based on these findings, we need to pay attention to elementary PE specialist voices to understand students' misbehaviros and reduce them with various strategies.
※ Key words : Elementary physical education specialists, misbehaviors, coping strategies"