The Research On Current Status Of P.E. Elective Courses In Suzhou Private Colleges

Physical education is an important part of higher education, around the guidingideology of "people-oriented", building a new system of physical education curriculumthrough the combination of compulsory and elective courses, thereby it provides acomplete sports "course menu" for college students to construct reasonable sportsknowledge structure and the ability of development. the elective courses for physicaleducation in colleges and universities has greatly motivated students in ordinary collegesand universities, which provides good environment for the cultivation of the students’sports consciousness of lifetime, so as to achieve the purpose of the exercise, strengtheningphysique. How to effectively carry out the elective physical education in universities is animportant subject to be studied in the future.This paper uses the methods of documents, questionnaire, interview, logic analysisetc., taking the optional physical curriculum of7private vocational colleges as the researchobject from Suzhou, analyzing and studying the current situation of the elective physicalcourses of private vocational colleges in Suzhou by considering teaching objectives,courses construction, teaching staff, students’ requirements of choosing courses, teachingsite and equipment as well as the teaching evaluation etc., studying the deficiencies andachievements in their physical curricular development, which offers a reliable reference topromote a healthy development for the elective physical courses of private vocationalcolleges in Suzhou.The research suggest that:1.The objectives of elective P.E. courses are put emphasison “developing students’ interest in sports and cultivating the students’ consciousness oflifelong sports” in Suzhou private colleges.2. The opened elective P.E. courses varygreatly from school to school. The traditional course is the principal of P.E courses; thecourses opened are complete, new and original in a small part of private college. Applyingfor elective courses is relatively easy.3. Most of physical education teachers in Suzhou private vocational colleges are young and middle-aged teachers. The teachers withprofound knowledge who are skilled at class teaching are very few. The proportion of maleand female teachers is about2:1, teachers with intermediate title accounted for the largestproportion, and teachers with bachelor degrees are more than that research-typed teacherwith master degrees. The teachers are lack of non-degree training and continuingeducation opportunities, and the teaching task is very heavy. The level of scientificresearch is low.4. The theoretical P.E. courses have not been given due attention, thetheory courses take less proportion of the total class hours. It is lack of diversification ofstudents’ P.E performance evaluation system. The assessment of the usual performance isvery vague. It is also lack of monitor system to ensure the fairness of students’ grades.5.The students’ learning motivation is gradually realizing more functions of sports valuecorrectly actively, which codes with the original intention of private colleges. The studentshave given the full affirmation to the teachers’ moral qualities and professional skills.6.Sports facilities in Suzhou private vocational college can not meet the needs of teaching, sothe teaching quality is difficult to guarantee.Through the analysis of the research results, this paper puts forward suggestions onthe curriculum reform and development on public elective P.E. course of PrivateVocational Colleges in Suzhou:1. Suzhou private colleges should transfer ideas and keepup with times.2. Make rules and regulations to lead students to choose elective coursesscientifically. Improve course-choosing system.3. Enhance the course construction andenrich course recourses.4. Deepening teaching reform from different ways, strengthenmonitoring teaching to improve the teaching quality of P.E. elective courses.