MOTIVATION TO EXERCISE FOR CHILDREN OF PRIMARY SCHOOL OUT-OF-CLASS

Abstract

The article analyzes the problems and directions of motivation for primary school children to play sports outside of school hours – in sections, sport clubs, on their own (at home or on street sports grounds). The key motivational tools (verbal, demonstration, figuratively, event, visually-stimulating) and characteristics of family life, which increase the child's interest in sports, are identified. Destructive factors, which negatively influence the motivation of the “mature childhood” personality to exercise in physical culture and sports (irregularity of training, compulsion, wrong choice of a sport, lack of discipline in the team, individual factors) are also described.We have made the conclusion, that the motivation of school age children to sports and physical culture is the variable phenomenon, which depends on the individual temperament, the presence of positive examples, the family lifestyle, the psychological climate in the team. Frequent change of sport class is determined by the search for oneself and developing one's own individual traits and features. It requires a more responsible attitude of adults to consider the inclinations and individual physical abilities during the “mature childhood” period. According to the analysis of the child's preferences and abilities, it is necessary to adjust and communicate with him in the direction of sports motivation: to help choose the kind of physical activity, to support, to find talent and develop it in a timely manner, not to insist if it is difficult for the child to study in a particular circle and to change sport class, if it is necessary.The subjects of motivation in the case of young pupil (in age 6-10 years) to physical activity are: a) parents, relatives, b) teachers, c) trainers and organizers of sports sections, d) representatives of state and public specialized institutions, e) coeval, social group, f) adult (non-family) authorities, such as a teenagers or amateur athlete on the street sports grounds (in a gym).