On Training and Retraining Teachers for Students’ Physical Education

Abstract

The conducted study was triggered by the problem of transition from a body-oriented approach to a personality-oriented approach inyoung people’sphysical education. The personality-oriented paradigm underlying training and retraining of teachers for students’ physical education was selected as the research methodology, and the model of improving such training of the teaching staff was suggested as a tool for implementing this paradigm. The presented model reflects the most important structural elements that we wished to test during the pedagogical experiment – improving future teachers’ motivation for their own physical activity and assessing the efficiency of a number of elective subjects. The modelis based on the assumed target of implementing activities by a health culture physical education teacher and reflects the actual system of knowledge concerning health and personal responsibility for teachers’ own health and that of students under their care. Also, the stages of building teachers’ professional competence and basic academic disciplines that will make the greatest contribution towards the achievement of the set goals are provided. The outlined stages represent a single process of physical and spiritual education to build future teachers’ knowledge and skills in the field of health culture. As a way to achieve these goals, it was proposed to introduce new elective disciplines for future teachers of physical education, namely: Pedagogical Anthropology, Personality-Oriented Physical Education and Creative Valeology. The conclusion is made that application of the personality-oriented approach to train future physical education teachers and the model of their training and retraining based on this approach would promote building their health culture education in the quickly changing world aimed at physical perfection of its individuals.