An Overview and Strategies for Kindergarten Sports Activities: Assessing the Current Situation and Identifying Countermeasures

Abstract

For a long time, under the influence of the traditional ideology that emphasizes knowledge supremacy, sports activities have been treated unequally, often equated with "play". However, in recent years, the decline in the physical fitness of children and adolescents has drawn extra attention to sports activities. Early childhood is a critical period for children's physical development, and outdoor sports activities in kindergarten play a crucial role in enhancing children's physical fitness and promoting their overall development.Children's physical activities provide children's physical development to maintain health, so that children promote the development of sports skills through physical exercise. This study explored the current situation of kindergarten physical activity around time, space, content and teacher attitude through observation method and interview method. Study found that kindergarten physical activity type is single, kindergarten sports equipment utilization is low, insufficient venues, lack of effective teachers' guidance, analysis the main cause of the above problems is: kindergarten does not pay attention to physical activities, teachers did not scientific use of materials, sports space is limited, inadequate teacher guidance. It puts forward the strategies of improving the kindergarten physical activity curriculum, strengthening the management, improving the utilization efficiency of sports equipment, reasonably planning the site, expanding the activity space, creating good conditions, introducing professional teachers, and improving the professional quality of teachers.

Keywords: kindergarten; physical activity; teaching status

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/14-26-01

Publication date:September 30^th 2023