Jinzhai County Rural School Sports Survey

By way of documents and materials, questionnaire survey, interviews, logical analyses, mathematical statistics, researches and analysis of the current situation of physical education in 37 middle schools in the rural areas of Jinzhai county, Anhui Province are carried on with the following outcomes: 1. The majority of physical education teachers here are of middle and young age; the sex structure is not sensible enough due to the small proportion women teachers take up. About 90 percent are undergraduates and junior college graduates with some part-time teachers. The professional structure is comparatively reasonable that the majority of the teachers are of the first and second class in intermediate rank. A rather small number of high-rank professional teachers are distributed in standard middle schools. The teachers have poor abilities in scientific researches, and P.E. teachers only get low social status, bad welfare and payment, large workload and alarming stability of job; 2. The schools are short of funds acutely; the places for activities may not be enough; the equipments are shabby and in poor quality, which can not satisfy the need of the development of physical education in the schools; 3. The P.E. courses in rural middle schools are a hundred percent given to students but without sufficient quantity. Classes are given in such low regularity that it is hard for physical education to meet the requirements of Regulations For Physical Education and Health Classes (abbreviated as Classes Regulations) 4. Rules have come into forms that radio gymnastic exercises and eye exercises as the main part of extracurricular activities are paid important attention to. However, extracurricular athletics, sports training and competitions are too deficient for students. Suggestions are pointed out with regard to the main problems: we should seize the time to strengthen leadership, regulate the educational system and perfect management; regulations and macroscopic guidance for schools should be enhanced with a panel of better teachers and an excellent P.E. system in higher quality; teachers should be equipped with renewed educational conceptions in the guidance of "health-first" and carry out curricular development on the basis of the current situation of school; administrators of schools should solve problems in finance and equipments, making sure that all the students can have extracurricular activities for one hour everyday.