Compulsory Gymnastics Teaching Of Physical Education Specialty In Teachers Colleges In Shandong Province And Countermeasures

Physical education specialty in normal colleges is the foundation of training full-time P. E. teachers for middle school. Its objects focus on the training of inter-disciplinary P. E. talents that are worldward, looking into the future and modernization, suitable for the practical needs of modernization drive and the reform and development of basic education, that have a deep specialty foundation, the modern educational ideas, excellent scientific quality and professional ethics, innovative spirit and practical capacity and that are able to undertake the teaching, training and competition of P. E. and the scientific research, the management and instruction of society P. E. The trained students are practical operators of the future reform of P.E., the executors of the new standard of course, the promoters and organizers of society P.E. Gymnastic course is one of the main courses for physical education specialty, and meanwhile, it is also the main textbook in the textbook system of middle school. The knowledge and skill mastered by the graduate of physical education specialty can directly influence the implementation of P.E. teaching in middle school. But, nowadays, the gymnastic teaching in many P.E. departments neglects the instruction of health education, the students' inner feeling and the nurture of character development and capability, which leads to some negative phenomena such as the lack of inner incentive to study, dealing with exercises and exams passively and never exercise after exam. On the other hand, some current contents of gymnastic teaching of physical education specialty separate from the reality of school, causing the bad situation of launching gymnastics in schools to all levels which indicates that the teaching content and mode of physical education specialty in normal colleges cannot meet the need of the development of . physical education, thus, the reform is imperative.This thesis makes a detailed investigation of the current teaching situation of compulsory gymnastics course of college physical education specialty in Shandong Province through document research, questionnaire survey, expert interviews, statistics and other methods available. From the investigation, we learn about the current situation of gymnastics teachers, teaching fields, the teaching and examining of compulsory gymnastics course and analyze the deficiency and propose the feasible measures. The conclusions have been drawn as follows:1) The structure of age of the gymnastic teachers in normal colleges of Shandong Province forms in the following way: the quantity of young and elderly teachers is small, the proportion of the middle-aged is high; the proportion of women teachers is too low and half of the colleges have no women teacher. 2) The diploma of gymnastic teachers is low and 68.3% only have the diploma of undergraduate and college education. However, the diploma of teachers has such incline: the proportion of undergraduate and college education comes to decrease and graduate is increasing every year. The structure of teachers' professional title is comparably reasonable.3) The gymnastic field and equipment of 1/3 colleges cannot meet the teaching needs of the new teaching material.4) All colleges have no applied gymnastic teaching equipment as well as the required gymnastic content.5) The result of the investigation shows that part of the related teachers still remain old ideas of teaching that need to be changed and the ways of teaching and examining are single.