Analysis of the Effectiveness of Physical Education Lessons in Special Medical Groups

Viktoriia V Podhorna,Iryna D Smoliakova

doi:10.52534/msu-pp.7(1).2021.44-53

Abstract

The relevance of the study is conditioned by the steady increase in the overall morbidity of student youth. The purpose of the study is to establish the effectiveness of physical education lessons in junior high school students, who belong to a special medical group due to their state of health. The following materials and methods were used during the research: analysis of documentary materials, pedagogical observation, pulsometry. The matter of the structure of diseases of junior schoolchildren who attend classes in a special medical group has been investigated. It is established that the number of students who may belong to a special medical group due to a certain state of health is 53.3% of all students enrolled in such group. Analysis of diagnoses indicates gross violations in the process of their formulation: lack of clear interpretation, designation of conditions that do not fall under the use of a diagnosis, diagnosis of age-incompatible students. An analysis of physical education lessons for primary school children aged 7-10, which are classified by health status to a special medical group. It was determined that the heart rate reached the upper limit of the maximum pulse reserve for children of the special medical group in the minimum number of exercises, while the total duration is on average 2 minutes 40 seconds, which makes it impossible to increase aerobic capacity of students. It was found that healthimproving lessons do not solve the problems associated with increasing the strength of postural muscles, with the development of coordination skills, do not have the value of special motor correction of certain diseases and pathological conditions of primary school children. The identified features of the educational process in a special medical group make it possible to state violations of such didactic principles as the principles of accessibility, activity, systematicity, individualisation. The existing system of physical education of junior schoolchildren, classified by health status to a special medical group, is described by a clear inconsistency of projective, substantive, procedural, and accounting and control settings

Highlights

For several decades the State education system in Ukraine has been undergoing a difficult period of reform under the conceptual provisions of the Law “On Education” [1] extended and supplemented by the new State Standard for Primary Education and considering the “Recommendations of the European Parliament and the Council of Europe on Building the Key Competencies of Lifelong Education” [2]
When considering improving the organisation of physical education in the lower grades of secondary schools, it is worth mentioning the principles of exemption from physical culture and the formation of special medical groups
The study analysed 19 physical education classes for junior schoolchildren classified as special medical group (SMG) for health reasons

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Introduction

For several decades the State education system in Ukraine has been undergoing a difficult period of reform under the conceptual provisions of the Law “On Education” [1] extended and supplemented by the new State Standard for Primary Education and considering the “Recommendations of the European Parliament and the Council of Europe on Building the Key Competencies of Lifelong Education” [2]. The main aspects of the educational process for children classified with health problems are identical, both in the basic and in the special medical group (hereinafter referred to as “SMG”). Students with SMG have lower absolute values of physical and motor fitness [10]. This situation leads to the virtual elimination of such a category of schoolchildren from participation in extracurricular and out-of-school organised physical culture and sports activities, significantly reducing physical training and health improvement possibilities

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