Study On Relationships Between Children’s Motor Abilities And Motor Environment In Kindergartens

The interactions of a variety of factors with each other contribute to the improvement of children’s motor abilities. Newell proposed that the individual, environmental and task infect on motor development. The Kindergarten as the main place for children’s activities has the inextricably relationship on the development of children. The study tried to rise that children’s motor abilities may be associated with the motor environment in kindergarten. We advocate that the motor environment was open, procedural and interactivity. And we have inspect the kindergarten’s motor environment with sports venues and facilities equipment construction in the kindergarten, teachers’organization and guidance for children’s activities in daily life, children have shown the initiation in motion events, participation and cooperation.Based on ECERS-R, the study with motor environment extracted the idea that the environment was situational and procedural. We used the evaluation method of ECERS-R to measure the motor environment. The study adapted the MOT4-6that is widely used to measure children’s motor abilities, and selected three areas in Zhejiang Province to measure motor abilities and motor environment with373children,9kindergartens, and20classes. We used SPSS16.0statistical software package for data analysis to describe the overall level of children’s motor abilities, to present the situation of motor environment in kindergarten, differences between urban and rural children’s motor abilities, differences between urban and rural kindergarten on motor environment. And we analyzed the relationships between children’s motor abilities and the motor environment in kindergarten. The results showed that:1. The children’s motor abilities aged4-6developed not balanced in seven areas of motor ability in Zhejiang Province. The Children had good performance on agility of whole body, coordination ability, agility of toes, jumping ability and the balance ability. However, children’s abilities in response capability movement, the movement speed, the coordination of hand-eye needed to be strengthened.2. The overall level of motor ability of urban children aged4-6better than the overall motor ability of rural children aged4-6years old. The urban children did better than the rural children in the moving speed, jumping ability, the agility of small muscles, motion control. However the rural children did better than the urban children in balance ability.3. The quality of motor Environment in urban kindergarten is better than quality of the rural kindergarten’s.4. There is a positive correlation between the children’s motor abilities aged4-6and the motor environment in their kindergarten. The better of Kindergarten’s motor environment is, the better children’s motor abilities would be.5. There is a positive correlation between4-6years old children’s motor abilities and four dimensions of the motor environment in kindergarten.Based on the conclusions and the issues we have found, we have given the appropriate advice and improved measures. And we hope our efforts could be enhanced the motor environment in kindergarten and children’s motor abilities.