Research On The Balanced Development Of School PE In Shandong Province

Along with the rapid development of China’s economic level and the constantenhancement of people’s concern on education, high-quality resources, especiallyhigh-quality educational resources and its distribution equality receive more and moreattention and the balanced development of education has been the focus to which people payattention increasingly. In November2012in the18th CPC National Congress, Hu Jintaodelivered a speech entitled “unswervingly advancing along the road of socialism with Chinesecharacteristics and striving for building up a complete well-off society”, which puts forwardsuch aims as “working hard to run a satisfactory education well, balanced development of thenine-year compulsory education, vigorously promoting equity in education, rational allocationof educational resources, focusing on rural, remote, poor and ethnic minority areas, improvingthe subsidy level on students from straitened family circumstances, encouraging and guidingsocial forces to run educational undertakings, strengthening the construction of teaching staff”.Balanced development of education has become a major concern of the Party and thegovernment.With the use of some research methods such as documentation, interviewing,questionnaire, mathematical statistics, logical analysis and comprehensive research, this thesisconducted a study on the status quo and the specific working condition of P.E. teachers, sportsteachers, the situation of P.E. courses and sports resources. The results show that: There aresignificant distinctions between urban and rural areas on the number of P.E. teachers, theeducational background structure, academic title, welfare benefits, salary, training andteaching and research activities. Universally, the situation is better in cities than in rural areas.In addition, the housing accumulation fund and performance-related pay of P.E. teachers incities are obviously higher than those in rural areas; the lack of equipment is the greatestdifficulty that P.E. in rural schools are facing; in terms of school sports fund, its shortage is amajor problem faced by P.E. in rural schools of Shandong Province. Both urban and ruralareas didn’t meet the national student average standard of school sports fields, mainlycharacterized by distinct deficiency of school grounds in urban schools, the poor quality ofP.E. equipments and lack of quantity and species in rural schools, the low quality of grounds.There are significant differences between urban and rural areas.According to the current status of P.E. investigation of rural and urban schools in Shandong Province, this thesis analyzes the factors that affect the balanced development ofP.E. in primary and secondary schools, which is mainly because of imbalance between urbanand rural economic development; the cognitive distinction on school sports of school leaders,teachers and parents lays restraints on the balanced development of P.E. in urban and ruralareas; the inequality of the status of P.E. in schools leads to the equality of P.E. in urban andrural areas; the inequality on teacher salary and welfare benefits of P.E. teachers leads to theimbalanced development of P.E. human resources in urban and rural schools; the fundinggap of school sports between urban and rural areas results in the imbalanced allocation ofresources; lack of P.E. teaching resources causes the uneven development of school physicaleducation. On this basis, the thesis puts forward some strategies on the balanced developmentof primary and secondary school sports in urban and rural areas.1. Promoting economic development, increasing the funding investment for physicaleducation, implementing the mechanism to ensure funding. Strengthening economicconstruction, multi-channelly raising educational funding, forming a specialized oversightadministration to ensure that funding for physical education can yield a greatest effectivereturn.2. Strengthening the degree of attention on school physical education of school managerialstaff. Promoting the school leaders to change ideas, elevating their degree of attention onschool physical education and the status of P.E. teachers.3. Strengthening the assessing and evaluating system, strictly regulating the managementsystem of school physical education. Combining rewards and punishments, setting up theevaluation mechanism at all levels, regularly organizing assessment on school physicaleducation in Shandong Province, jointly promoting the balanced and healthy development ofP.E. in rural areas.4. Raising the overall quality of teachers, intensifying training efforts and improving teachingquality. Ensuring the number and quality of newly-introduced teachers, allocating a certainamount of female P.E. teachers based on the proportion of male and female students; makingfull use of the advantages of Normal Universities to enhance teachers’ educationalbackground structure.5. Putting efforts to solve the problem of teachers’ benefits, stabilizing teaching staff.Improving the material conditions of school physical education and the treatment of teachers in rural areas, giving spiritual and material rewards for those who have done an outstandingwork.6. Adopting “compensatory measures”: schools of backward areas have the priority on theallocation of P.E. resources.7. Establishing the sharing model of teacher resources in urban and rural areas. Carrying out awide range of sports exchanges between schools, narrowing the gap between urban and ruralschools and improving the overall level of school physical education.8. Rationally using and developing teaching resources. Combining with the localcharacteristics, working out measures that are in line with local conditions in terms ofteaching content. Urban schools should make full use of the limited space and rationally planschool sports facilities.9. Making full use of the resources of Normal College students and the advantage of highereducation and widely carrying out educational cooperation between schools.10. Flexibly carrying out extracurricular activities and extensively organizing sportscompetitions. Carrying out colorful and various extracurricular sports activities in a plannedand organized way in order to promote the development of school physical education.