The after-school program, the innovative educational system with a wide range of autonomy, diversity and openness, aims to mitigate social polarization by reducing the education gap, meet the increasing needs for educational services to fulfill the ra...
The after-school program, the innovative educational system with a wide range of autonomy, diversity and openness, aims to mitigate social polarization by reducing the education gap, meet the increasing needs for educational services to fulfill the rapid changes such as low-birth rate and aging society, and curtail spending on private lessons. Even though it is seemingly well applied in many schools in quite suitable manners, the program still has some problems in its diverse use.
It is recognized that there are limitations on the use of in or out school facilities in operating after school programs and participants' poor understanding of the programs as well. It is also recognized that laying the foundation for whole-person education developing balanced knowledge, virtue and body is particularly significant in the rapidly-changing society of 21st century. I have analyzed the facets of real management of physical activity programs after school, currently in progress in elementary schools. Given these understandings, the effective measures to improve the promotion of the activities of current after-school physical education programs are critically. Based on the survey about the perception level of teachers, parents, and students, the results of the research regarding the strategies to activate them are suggested as follows.
First, the after-school physical education program should be diversely in use to guarantee the maximum right of educational programmes which include the choice of the educational consumers, such as parents and students. It is necessary to reflect the opinion of the consumers, and opt for a better way to correspond to the needs of social changes - to develop a diverse and quality physical activity program designed to satisfy the educational consumers as well.
Second, currently, more and more individuals simply get attracted to the daily routinizing of sports and physical activities because of growing concern about health and promotion of physical activities. This reflects the changing value of gymnastics and the positive attitude in physical matters. At this standpoint, I'd like to propose a desirable way to encourage this trends: promote daily-based physical education exercises as nationwide programs and activate one physical activity program for one school / one physical activity for each individual as a concrete program campaign.
I believe the physical activities at elementary school play a major part in shaping the habit of the entire exercises as well as the foundations of all sports afterwards. For this reason, it is needed to activate physical education programs in elementary schools as after-school activities.
Third, A wide variety of physical facilities should be designed to cater to the needs of management of physical programs at school. As a preliminary step on the implementation of diverse physical education programs after school, the school administration should expand and improve the facilities. The physical education facilities should be diversified as a distributive strategy for physical education programs. If diversified, the program will be managed diversely and it can also function as revenue for school for the community people by opening it to the public health service program.
Besides, it is possible to invent a new arena for physical activities by connecting the after-school programs with the extra physical facilities in the community and develop into an outpost area for physical activities, where many people from individual school can gather to make availability of them.
Fourth, it is desirable to devise ways to recruit qualified physical education teachers for the after-school programs when the significance of teacher factors is considered. It is the teacher that makes the programs successful. It is encouraged to develop a plan to increase in-service teachers' participation on the after-school programs and secure the stable recruitment of guest instructors.
Fifth, regardless of school size or the number of participants, after-school programs should be guaranteed to get appropriate supports from the government administratively and financially so that all the participants can choose the programs they want.
When these considerations are properly addressed, the after-school physical education programs will thrive with more diversity in their management.