Wuhan City, The New P.E Curriculum Standards, Experiment Areas, Track And Field Teaching, Current Situations, Developmental Countermeasures

Nowadays, we are deepening the educational reform and pushing forward the all-round quality education all over our country. P.E. plays an important part of the quality education. It is also the breach of pushing forward the all-round quality education. The new turn of the reform of PE is carried out with the national basic education reform as the main background. Therefore, our task is to quicken 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 andfield teaching in eight urban districts in Wuhan City. In each district, five high schools, five junior middle schools and ten primary schools have been chosen. So, there are totally forty high schools, eighty junior middle schools and eighty primary schools taking part in this project. And we interview the teachers working at these schools. Based on these investigation and findings, this paper made an analysis of the various factors affecting the track and field teaching.At present, the current situation of the track and field teaching at primary and middle schools are: 1).In teaching content, the teaching of various races in different distance and methods (short distance race, middle and long distance race and relay race) and the basic jump (the sail style) are better. The events of throwing (the sling of solid ball and side sliding shot putting) and complex jump (straightaway long jump and orthodox straddle) are good. While the items which require higher techniques (triple jumping, flop and back sliding shot putting) is not very good, nearly a half schools haven't listed such items as the teaching contents. 2). In teaching method, its technicality is overemphasized (because of the entrance examination to high schools), while the development of the students'ability in track and field sport and the improvement of their general quality are ignored, so the function of body exercise cannot be fully utilized. 3). In teaching evaluation, it follows the way to assess the students'result which reaches the standard traditionally.Factors affect the track and field teaching at primary and middle schools are various, sports funds, its own factors in track and field teaching, the teachers'operation level, the teaching plan and rationality of teaching arrangement, etc. This thesis brings forward some concrete methods to cope with the above-mentioned various factors, such as the related countermeasures: To quicken the nativisation of the new curriculum standards, to increase the investment and scientific management of school's sport funds, and to strive to explore the field and equipment of track and field teaching, in addition, to optimize content and method of track and field teaching.