Developing primary school students’ skills on general developmental exercises and teachers’ professional development on learning technologies in physical education

Abstract

This study aims to develop primary school students’ general development exercise skills and reveal teachers’ views about their professional development on learning technologies in physical education. Mixed method was used in the study with experimental and qualitative research methods. The main relevance of this study is an analysis that conducts an experiment of a system of general development exercises that are used to perform independently by primary school students to clarify, verify the results of the study and test an effective experimental method in this direction. During the study, the experimental groups and control group of primary school students were included and the results of experiment and qualitative data were analysed. In addition, the study revealed comparative data with analysis, synthesis, questionnaires, diagnostics and other practical methods. As a result of the experimental work, a system of specific general developmental exercises (GDE) aimed at developing the skills of independent performance by primary school students through GDE was developed. Elements of life movements taken from various roots of Kazakh national culture were introduced into the system of GDE within the framework of cooperation with class teachers, a series of thematic methodological seminars were held for physical education teachers and a methodological guide was developed. Results of this study provided practical implications for primary school teachers to use systems of a new direction of preparing children for a healthy lifestyle.