Basketball sport, as the main part of school physical education, is popular with students in middle schools, which is of great educational and health-building significance and plays an important role in improving students'bodies and minds quality. With its popular social basis, basketball sport developed well in Shanxi province. As we know, Taiyuan city was named as"a famous basketball city"and basketball team of TUT got many championships in northwest area match of CUBA and had the title of"king of basketball". The eleven cities of Shanxi province and many enterprises and schools have their own basketball teams and often organize various basketball matches. Since 1986, Jincheng city made a great effort in developing the city's sports, including building stadiums and gymnasiums, taking basketball invitational tournament of four countries and middle school basketball games.In the new period, physical education teaching have moved into social, scientific and life tracks. To meet the needs of modern education development and talents training, school physical education must keep pace with the times. However, there is little research on middle schools basketball teaching in Jincheng, Shanxi province. In order to promote the development of basketball sport and deepen the reform of basketball teaching in Shanxi province, it is necessary to systematically study the current situation of Jincheng middle schools basketball teaching and find the existing problems.Adopting the method of literature consultation, investigation, interviews, statistics and analysis, the author takes 10 middle schools in Jincheng as the objectives, covering Jincheng NO.1 middle school, Jincheng NO.2 middle school, Yangcheng NO.1 middle school, Zezhou NO.1 middle school, Zezhou NO.2 middle school, Gaoping middle school, Lingchuan middle school, Qinshui middle school, Jincheng experimental high school. 5 PE teachers and 200 students of different grades for each school are chosen to conduct a sampled questionnaire survey. The research results show that:1 .Basketball sport is popular in middle schools of Jincheng. Many students can take part in basketball sport in their spare time, while they haven't more chances to participate extra-curricular basketball matches, which is not conducive to the development of basketball sport in Jincheng city.2. The learning motivations of middle school students in Jincheng are varied. Many students take part in basketball sport not only to grasp basketball skills, but also to promote health and relax themselves.3. PE teachers pay more attention to basic skills in their teaching and ignore the development of students'psychology, social adaptiveness and the training of basketball referee ability.4. The causes influencing PE teachers teaching are attributed to low education background, low professional title, low income, heavy workload, unfavorable teaching environment and few opportunities for further professional studies. It is needed to further improve PE teachers'professional quality and change traditional teaching philosophy.5. Teaching methods used for basketball teaching in Jincheng is mainly traditional and backward, which cannot arouse the students' enthusiasm for basketball study. Most of the teachers can only use limited media such as blackboard, chalk, schoolbooks and lantern slides to teach basketball skills and tactics theory in basketball class, which limits the students'understanding of basketball sport's connotation.In this paper, the author puts forward the following countermeasures in accordance with the existing problems:1.Superior administrative department should be conscious of the importance of basketball education. Schools should improve teaching condition, increase the funds input, strengthen the construction of sports facilities to meet the needs of basketball education.2. Schools should strengthen teacher training to improve teachers'professional quality. Teachers should update teaching philosophy, develop new teaching ideas and methods and fully implement the important thought of"health first"to develop students awareness and ability for lifelong sports.3. Teachers should apply modern means and introduce advanced research results into basketball class. Schools should make full use of current resources, such as increasing the opening time of indoor gymnasium and applying the stratified teaching approach, to provide protection for the development of basketball education.4. Schools should strengthen teaching staff construction including building competition mechanism, incentive mechanism and elimination mechanism, cultivating teachers'awareness of lifelong learning, especially young teachers. Teachers themselves should work hard to enhance their professional quality.5. According to middle school students'physical features and psychological state, PE teachers should enrich basketball educational contents, such as fancy basketball, to enhance students'physical and mental health. |