| It is pointed out in the Teaching Guidance outline of PHYSICAL Education in colleges and universities that the teaching methods of physical education in colleges and universities should be diversified and individualized,and the students’ dominant status and independent learning ability should be emphasized.With the deepening of school PE curriculum reform in China,we have learned and absorbed many excellent PE curriculum concepts and experiences from abroad,including SPARK curriculum in the United States.SPARK’s innovative,lifelong,and self-selective health curriculum meets the needs of table tennis classroom teaching and the physical and mental characteristics of college students,providing reference for improving the quality of table tennis teaching in colleges and universities.Table tennis optional course is a popular course in college sports,and students have a high degree of participation in and out of class.This paper takes the application of SPARK curriculum concept in table tennis teaching in colleges and universities as the research object,in order to make students fully feel the fun of learning in sports class and gain the dual development of physical strength and skills.It provides a practical basis for promoting SPARK’s teaching model and content in college physical education.The research methods of this paper are literature method,expert interview method,questionnaire survey method,teaching experiment method and mathematical statistics method.The teaching experiment object is a total of 80 students from two classes of class 2021 of Public sports Table Tennis elective course of Xinjiang Normal University.The teaching experiment cycle is 16 weeks and 32 class hours.The experimental class adopts the teaching mode based on SPARK curriculum concept,while the control class adopts the traditional teaching mode.Through the data analysis before and after the teaching experiment,this paper explores the impact of SPARK’s table tennis teaching on college students’ physical fitness,basic table tennis skills,sports learning interest and social communication ability.The results are as follows:(1)Table tennis teaching based on SPARK curriculum concept can effectively improve students’ physical quality.The agility and speed of the students in the experimental class were improved significantly and were better than those in the control class.The endurance quality of the students in both classes has made great progress compared with that before the experiment,but the improvement of strength quality is not obvious.(2)Table tennis teaching based on SPARK curriculum concept can effectively improve students’ basic table tennis skills.The students in the experimental class have improved their forehand attacking skills more significantly,and their positive hand skills and standard scores are better than those of the control class.The students of the two classes showed significant improvement in backhand blocking technology before teaching experiment.(3)Table tennis teaching based on SPARK curriculum concept can improve students’ interest in sports learning.The improvement of the students’ interest in PE learning in the experimental class was significantly higher than that in the control class,and the enthusiasm and attention of the students in PE learning were significantly improved,while the negativity of PE learning was significantly decreased.Students in the control class made significant progress in skill learning and extracurricular activities.(4)Table tennis teaching based on SPARK curriculum concept can improve students’ social communication ability.The social communication ability of the students in the experimental class is obviously better than that in the control class.The table tennis class based on SPARK curriculum concept helps students enhance social communication in sports learning and exercise. |