D.p.s. Shkutina L.A., M.p.s. Suleyeva K.M., Karakasidi Y.K.

The Karaganda State University of the name of academician E.A.Buketov

Methods greatly contributing children’s interest during physical education classes

 

Today Kazakhstan has national policy of formation of the healthy lifestyle, which has absorbed the best international practices. One of the most important areas of the annual message of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev to the people of Kazakhstan is "Strengthening the educational component of the learning process Patriotism, norms of morals, physical and spiritual development, and healthy lifestyle advance" [1]. These values should be established and developed in all educational and sports institutions. Formation intellectual, physically and spiritually developed citizen of the Republic of Kazakhstan – one of the most important purposes of our state [2]. That is why today the development of sports and maintenance of a healthy lifestyle is most actually.

The aim of physical education is training a healthy, cheerful, vitality, physically perfect, harmonious and creative development of the child. The results of physical educational process depend on the quality of teaching and educational work done in classes. This can be achieved by gradual problem-solving that a lesson based on.

According to age, anatomical and physiological and psychological features physical training solve s improving, educational and educational problems. All these tasks also are solved during physical education classes.

The organized physical education stated in the curriculum objectives to teach children to make physical activities, to polish work outs, to develop skills and abilities that mastered during classes and practice them outside of school as well. Sequential accomplishment of educational goals leads to a systematic, robust and complete study of the academic program material. Solving some educational tasks requires a relatively long time (a set of consecutive lessons), and for other - just a lesson.

Educational objectives also include children’s receiving physical education and sport, the preserving health, daily schedule, right breathing, conditioning to the cold, and right work outs.

Performing educational objectives usually associated with the solving of the educational and health problems. The lessons of physical education is brought up attention, discipline, will, carefulness, solicitous attitude to property, as well as a sense of friendship, comradeship, commitment, independence and perseverance in overcoming difficulties.

Recreational objectives, as well as pedagogical, must be solved in each lesson. Logical procedure of physical education lessons must be conducted in special outfit, in the corresponding sports suits, in the open air - all this helps to make favorable conditions for solving health problems.

All above-listed problems of physical training are solved in unity. It contribute the all-round education of the child directed on physical, intellectual, spiritual, emotional development; psychophysical readiness for work and study at school [3, 4].

In order to solve these problems, a teacher of physical training must ensure a high level of students’ activity in the classroom. For this reason, it is necessary to evoke their interests in physical work outs, to strive for developing physical and mental qualities and get as much satisfaction as possible from these activities.

There are cognitive and motor activities in the classroom.

Cognitive activity contains careful perception of the material and sensible attitude towards it, which leads to its mastering. Motor activity is associated with direct, conscious and motivated exercises. In other words, both activities are characterized by students’ mental willingness [4].

There are two different connotations of mental activity (biological and social). They sort out a number of factors that ensure physical activity during classes. Such as:

1) biological factors: the need to motion, life and health preservance;

2) social factors: peculiarities of lesson organizing, other people’s assessment, especially teachers’ interest in physical education lessons [4].

Interest - is a conscious positive attitude to anything that encourages people to be active in getting to know the of object of interest [4]. In psychology, the interest is characterized by such qualities as breadth (range of human interests), profoundness (the degree of interest in any object), constancy (the duration of the interest to any object), motivation (the degree of consciousness, or accidental interest), the effectiveness of (to being active to meet the interests).

Students have various interests at physical education lessons: the wish to improve health, shape a body, to develop physical and mental qualities (the will, etc.). It is important to note that the interests of boys and girls are differ. Girls are more likely to want to shape a beautiful figure, to develop flexibility and improve the grace, gait, etc. Boys, in turn, as a rule, tend to develop strength, hardiness, speed and agility [5].

Physical education has its own age-specific features. Juniors primarily are interested in motor activity in general (on the basis of the primary motives). They like running, jumping and playing by nature.

Teenagers do physical work outs, being motivated by personal development (minor motives). They have a strong desire to be like a "hero", who is their idol, an example for imitation, or to improve the dimension of muscle mass in order to be a part of “in crowd”.

High school students put the reasons related to their life plans in the first place. Their physical work outs are caused primarily due to training yourself for a specific future career [6].

Every teacher of physical education, who wants his students to be active in the lesson, must strive to build an educational process, taking into account not only age peculiarities and students’ motivation. There are also a number of factors that affect the activity involved. The main ones are: the creation of a positive background, the highest possible workload of students in the class.

To create a positive emotional background is of great importance in the lessons, including physical education classes. As a rule, it is formed in the very beginning and must be preserved throughout the lesson. It depends on students’ feels, their interest in work outs and physical education as a subject, in specific occupation or teacher's personality, their activities, mood, behavior and health as well.

There are several key factors that promote higher emotionality of the lesson and arouse students’ joy while doing work outs [4].

1. Physical training brings satisfaction and joy when the class moves rather than sits bored on the benches, if they see the teacher’s good spirit, understand his/her jokes, and they see the results of students’ work. Excessive excitement of the teacher (restlessness, noisiness), usually leads to an increase in informal activity involved. It is important that strictness, accuracy and clarity of actions interspersed with teacher smiles and words to promote their achievements, their encouragement while having temporary failures.

2. The use of games and competitive methods always a strong emotional response involved because of their psychological peculiarities. Remember that often the feedback can be so strong that it becomes almost impossible to implement the tasks. Competitive exercises should be conducted at the end of the lesson. It is unacceptable to apply them before training the techniques of physical exercises.

Game - it is the traditional form of students class work. It is not only fun for juniors, but the way of development (age peculiarity). With the help of the games requiring manifestation of motor activity, students get to learn the rules and norms of rational movement forms, and develop mental and physical qualities, communication skills. It is important to use action games on the lessons, with the teacher, creating a certain plot of the game, includes teaching aids into the contents. Using this method, the teacher must take part in the game him/herself, believe in the reality of created images and perform the characters of the plot. As they grow up games should be more realistic. This may be a variety of sports games, first with simplified rules and conditions, and then completely corresponding to real needs.

3. A variety of teaching aids. It is known that monotonous physical activity leads to adverse mental states (monotony, mental satiation). There are many ways to diversify the means and methods of conducting lessons: use the frontal, group students activities; include a variety of new exercises (for example, for the development of the same physical quality you can use different exercises on the content) to change the situation, the conditions of the lesson (the transition from the gym in the air, walking and running accompanied by music, general developmental exercises in the introductory part of the lesson). [5].

It is also important to set properly the objectives of the lesson aimed to increase students’ activity. The most common errors teachers have to fail as follows:

- Teacher lists the exercises, which will be engaged to perform in class, rather than to set a task that should be solved;

- Teacher puts unspecific task;

- Teacher doesn’t evoke the students’ interest, a specific and well-formulated problem does not always lead to the desired result, it is important that it is linked with the interests involved and their needs;

- The teacher poses the problem which fails to achieve within the classes.

It gives the impression all their efforts will go in vain [5].

Particular attention should be paid to the optimal work load involved in the lesson. The optimum work load on the lesson can be achieved by a number of special organizational - pedagogical measures, the main ones are:

1) elimination of unnecessary pauses, which takes place in several ways: providing all students  of the class with sports equipment, performing with the students the warming-up activities and exercises; assigning students to monitor the quality of the exercises, doing by classmates;

2) permanent teacher’s control of the students during the lesson (students are warned that all their actions and behavior will be assessed, and evaluated not only knowledge and skills acquired in the classroom, but their activity, attention and discipline);

3) drawing students into  educational activity, even those who are exempted from the work out. Exempted are present in the class, get the task to monitor what others are doing and to perform all the exercises mentally. It is known that ideomotor training not only promotes the formation of motor skills, but also develops (to a lesser degree) physical qualities. Exempted students should be involved in refereeing, and use the organizers as the assistants [6].

The activity of students in physical education classes is determined by how the teacher observes didactic principles of pedagogical process. It is impossible to review all existing principles of this teaching manual, which are divided into two groups: one reflects the ideological direction of learning and teaching, and the other - procedural and technical.

It is better to focus on those that can enhance the learning activity of students. Such as:

1) The principle of tasks optimal difficulty: exercise, given to students, should be feasible for them and at the same time forcing them to make effort; determining the optimum of the tasks difficulty, the teacher must consider the following factors: 1) coordinating complicacy of the exercises, and 2) the amount of expended physical effort, and 3) the fear of students to not cope with the exercises, and 4) the degree of understanding the tasks difficulty by students;

2) the principle of consciousness: students should understand the role of exercises in moral, volitional, aesthetic and ethical education, the importance of physical hypodynamia to human health, the necessity of training in order to prepare for careers;

3) The principle of connection between the training and practical life: conscious mastering of educational material can be noted only if it has certain sense for the student, so the teacher must constantly show students the connection of studied exercises with practical life, focusing the students not on the technical purity of performed exercises, but on their significance for the development of mental and physical qualities, motor skills and abilities;

4) the principle of individualization: the term doesn’t refer to the individual work with one student but individual characteristics of each student that must be considered by a teacher.

The principle of individualization on the lessons of physical education is manifested in selection and implementation of the tasks: each person develops his/her own pace to master academic material (depending on the abilities, the level of readiness, the typological characteristics of temperament and character) and an individual level of stress (in the psycho-physiological aspect). According to that the teacher of physical education must individualize measure of impact on students [7].

Physical education lesson at school is a very complicated educational process that has many different components, its specific structure and content. It is also the basic form of organizing the training in physical education, development of the children from first through eleventh grades.

The lesson has a diverse effect on the body and the personality of students, provides them with a variety of reasons to work out, which affect the procedure of the lesson as a whole. The teacher’s preparation has a great influence on the quality of the lesson, as well as his abilities to organize the children and the lesson in general, and to cause their interest in studies.

A well-prepared, organized and conducted the lesson is the result of made efforts and diligence of the teacher, the key to the harmonious development of students, without loss of health, but with acquisition of it, and increasing of their interest in physical culture and sport. It is necessary for teachers to be carefully and conscientiously prepared for physical education lessons, beginners especially. The lesson cannot be productive and successful without proper preparation.

Developing sports, we will be able not only to bring up healthy generation of youth, but also to cultivate in them sense of patriotism, to develop physically and spiritually our future generation. Today the importance of development of sports increases more and more. For development of sports are necessary not only the material and technical equipment and sports bases. Popularizing sports in our country, we should create the optimal conditions for the development, and increase young people's interest in physical culture.

 

References:

1 Message of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan N.A.Nazarbayev to the people of Kazakhstan. 27.01.2012.

2 State Program of Education Development of Kazakhstan for 2011-2020.  

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