Improving general motricity by diversifying the means of gymnastics used in primary school pupils

Abstract

favorable influence on body development and strengthening and as didactic tool helping to know better the children and to enable their faster adaptation to the new requirements of the instructive-educational process. Also, this activity leads to the assimilation of knowledge basic elements and to the creation of a dynamic working environment with good understanding and helpfulness. Purpose: this paper aims primarily at the diversified use of gymnastics means content for improving the general skills in pupils aged 6-8 years. Methods: The research was carried out throughout two school years and was conducted in two stages: initial testing period (from November 2015 to March 2016) and final testing (from November 2016 to March 2017) with a group of 26 pupils (14 girls and 12 boys), aged 6 to 8 years within ”Grigore Moisil” Theoretical School of Timisoara. The following methods were used in this research: study of specialized literature, pedagogical observation, ascertaining and formative pedagogical experiment, method of tests and control events, statisticalmathematical method of results processing and graphical representation. A number of 7 test events selected from the National School System of Evaluation in Physical Education and Sport were used to evaluate the general motor skills. Results: The results of the study highlight the general motor skills development in pupils of 6-8 years old, both girls and boys, in terms of dynamics of abdominal, back and arms strength, vertebral column mobility and the sense of balance and general coordination. Discussion, The comparative analysis of general motor development dynamics of the pupils of 6-8 years old reveals the increase of the abdominal and back strength higher in boys, better sense of balance and mobility in girls, higher arms strength in boys, better general coordination in girls, better endurance in boys and significant differences between tests at p 0.05, p 0.01 and p 0.001 better in girls which confirms the influence of gymnastics means on the development of general motor skills in the pupils of 6-8 years old. Conclusions, The diversified use of gymnastics content during the classes with pupils aged 6-8 years contributed to the increase of the efficiency of physical education lesson, materialized in the final results obtained in the test events.