Teaching Strategies Of Motivating Students PE Learning By Teachers In Elementary And Middle School

By the analysis of teaching behaviors of physical education teachers, this researchsummarized strategies of learning motivations, and compared the emphases of motivatingstrategies on different grades, school ages, and class steps. Through the combination ofmotivating strategies and current motivation theories, this paper integrated in-class andtheoretical activities and also provided a practical guidance for physical education teachingin primary schools and high schools. Via classroom observations and interviews, thisresearch focused on twelve physical education teachers from primary/high schools ofBeijing and Xi’ an. In-class activities of teachers were recorded on video. These activitieswere indexed with the learning motivation inspiration strategy table, and comparedamongst different grades, school ages, and class steps for differences.1. Teaching strategies for inspiring students’ learning motivation were adopted with afrequency gradient (from highest to lowest): Satisfaction, Attention, Confidence, andRelevance strategies.2. Significant difference has been observed on Attention strategy andSatisfaction strategy during primary schools. For Confidence strategy and Relevancestrategy, no significant difference was observed in primary, junior high, or high schoolphases.3. No significant difference has been observed in any of the four strategies(Attention, Relevance, Confidence, and Satisfactory) of both the1-3years and the7-10years school age groups. There is hence no significant difference on strategy adoptionbetween teachers of different experience ages.4. Physical education classes were dividedinto three steps by the amount of strategies implemented, from most to least: Basis,Preparation, and Ending. Significant differences were observed in Attention strategy(Ending) and in Confidence strategy (Preparation) during primary school phase. No othersignificant difference was observed in the Basis step, or during other phases of Preparationand Ending steps.