Current Situation And Developmental Countermeasures Of The Track And Field Teaching In The Schools Chosen For Experiments On The New P.E Curriculum Standards In Henan Province

Now we are in the critical period of building a modernized country and the development and prosperity of our Chinese nation calls for educational reform. The new turn of the reform of PE is carried out with the national basic education reform as the main background."The Program for the Invigoration of Education Orientated towards the 21st century commented and transmitted to the various department concerned by the Sate Council and the Decisions made by the State Council on Deepening the Educational Reform and Pushing Forward the All-round Quality Education have shown clearly the way forward in the school education reform and PE curriculum reform. It also clarifies our task of quickening our step in establishing the basic education curriculum system catering to quality education. In carrying out the PE curriculum reform, it is a challenge to the old tradition to implement the quality education, and it is our choice orientated towards the future."The implementation of the PE and Health Standards"in some experimental areas in 2001 marked that the PE curriculum reform was pushed in deep. However, we have also noticed that, due to the influences of the old PE syllabus and the traditional thoughts on PE, there still remain some problems need to be solved in the implementing the new standards, for example, how to reform the traditional track and field teaching by following the standards in the new system so as to curb the declining tendency of PE education at schools. In recent years, the track and field sport gradually loses its status in our PE teaching, facing the unmet-of dilemma, and instead of developing, it gradually shrinks. So, many experts and gym teachers are deeply worried about that, and actively trying their best to change this condition.This research project, by adopting the approaches based on documents, investigation, mathematical statistics and logic analysis, have learned the current situations of track and field teaching in 122 district or county schools of those selected for experiment located in...