The purpose of this thesis was to propose effective physical education lesson for fifth and sixth graders in elementary schools. For this, this study investigates those learners'' awareness of their present physical education classes and preference fo...
The purpose of this thesis was to propose effective physical education lesson for fifth and sixth graders in elementary schools. For this, this study investigates those learners'' awareness of their present physical education classes and preference for physical educational activities. In addition, this study analyzes current state of physical educational activities and its influence over students'' awareness and preference to provide basic data that is helpful for physical educational instruction.
This study selects a questionnaire as the measuring instrument. This study distributes 370 copies of the questionnaire to students in fifth and sixth grade of six elementary schools in Ul-San, and utilizes 358 collected copies.
This study designs the questionnaire based on the previous studies and modifies it with aids of experts to achieve the purpose of this thesis. The questionnaire consists of background variables, physical education class awareness, preference and needs. For the frequency analysis to investigate general features of samples, this thesis uses the Statistical Packages for the Social Science (SPSS) 12.0 window version. In concrete, this study conducts crosstabulation analysis (Chai-square test) and t-test to analyze difference caused by a learner''s gender, grade, physical educational instruction(physical education teachers and general homeroom teachers), gender of a physical education teacher. The result is like below.
First, elementary school learners'' interest in physical education class causes great difference in learners'' activities. Interest plays an important role in the physical education class and it ,by motivating students, establishes the basis of learning various kinds of sport that middle school physical education would emphasize. This demands to expand content of class that arouse students'' interest.
Second, equipments that are necessary for physical education classes of elementary school students make significant difference in learners'' physical educational activities. Swimming pools and gyms are the most requested facilities and it reveals to be that students'' motivation for exercise increases if there were proper facilities. In short, providing the condition that activates physical educational activities will be beneficial for physical education classes in elementary schools.
Third, teaching methods of a teacher may result difference in elementary school students'' physical educational activities. Unlike physical education teachers and male teachers whom students have negative impression on for their corporal punishment, homeroom teachers teach in more considerate manner, and this makes the learners prefer homeroom teachers. This result presents that teachers need to instruct students kindly to develop positive awareness of physical activities in their childhood. The focus should be on actualizing desire for movement and building up the fundamental capacity for locomotion and body strength that enable variety of physical activities.
Fourth, physical education class activities can be different by content and atmosphere of physical education classes in elementary schools. Students are positive about choosing a sport of their own preference and hopes to have lessons about detailed directions and rules of a sport. Learners prefer cooperative group activities to individual activities and asks for differential lessons according to genders. Considering problems caused by fast growth of students, further studies for different lessons for each gender may be necessary.
Fifth, assesment methods of physical education class in elementary schools lead students'' physical education class activities to be different. Most of elementary school students aware that the evaluation is performed according to a certain standard and hope to get the evaluation at the end of a semester. This states that ,rather than theoretical evaluation, teachers need to conduct assesment of students'' performance and learning progress during a semester based on a determined standard.