“Within recent years, as the educational process got generally intensified in secondary education institutions and has continually transferred to a distance format, a tendency can be seen to reduce the level of health and physical fitness of young students. This fact encourages the search for new educational and upbringing technologies, the introduction of non-traditional forms and methods of teaching and education in secondary school. This resonates with the NUS Concept with the underlying formula of a "new content of education based on the formation of competencies needed for successful self-realisation in society"”, the compiler and team leader of the manual said, Doctor of Education, Professor, Head of Physical Education and Recreation Department Natalia Belikova.
This is the reason for the publication and presentation of the textbook “Innovative methods of teaching physical education to schoolchildren” at the Faculty of Physical Culture, Sports and Health of Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University. The event was attended by all twelve authors, reviewers, the Rector of the University Anatolii Tsios, the Dean of the Faculty Vasyl Pantik and invited guests.
In their collective work, Natalia Belikova, Lyudmyla Vashchuk, Tetyana Hnitetska, Nina Dedelyuk, Olena Demyanchuk, Oleh Dykyi, Svitlana Indyka, Svitlana Kalytka, Liudmyla Kochubei, Nadiya Kovalchuk, Olena Tomashchuk, Volodymyr Yalovyk presented the most progressive methods of teaching school students. In fact, pedagogical science and school practice direct joint efforts in search of the ways of improving the students’ classroom and extracurricular forms of physical education. Innovations in the framework of which pedagogical technologies are developed do not appear spontaneously, they are the result of scientific investigation of advanced pedagogical experience. The presented textbook is a collective work of scientists, teachers and instructors with a high level of scientific, teaching and methodological competencies, which is indicated by the content and focus of every t material presented in the manual.
The authors hope that their introduction in physical education classes will help to form positive motivation in students for a healthy lifestyle, physical development and physical training, expand motor experience, develop practical skills for independent exercise and recreation, help develop creative personality, improve and increase the child’s personal result.
Rector Anatolii Tsios noted: “Colleagues, I sincerely thank you for your active position. At these difficult times, you work and prepare textbooks improving the quality of education, excellent transfer of practical experience and knowledge to students. And this is extremely important! ”
The overall concept of the textbook is methodologically substantiated and structured. The material of the publication is presented in six parts revealing the methodological and semantic guidelines of the author’s materials: “Health-preserving technologies in school education”; “Educational and developmental gymnastics”; “Fitness at school”; “Athletics at school”; “Innovative processes of tourism development”; “Educational and extracurricular sports work”. The authors’ team believes that the textbook “Innovative methods of teaching physical education to students” will be useful for teachers, educators, students and a new stimulus for methodological and practical solutions for innovation in the system of school physical education.
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