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PROJECT TOPIC: IMPROVISATION FOR EFFECTIVE TEACHING OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN SOME SELECTED SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN MKPAT ENIN LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA

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CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Study

Physical Education, also known in many commonwealth countries as physical training or PT, is an educational course relating to maintaining the human body through physical exercise (i.e calisthenics). It is offered in primary, post-primary and tertiary levels of education and encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting to promote health. Whether the class produces positives effects on students’ health, behaviour and academic performance depends upon the kind of program that is taught.

Physical Education programs vary all over the world. However, there are worldwide organizations that allow for a better understanding on how much, a child should be getting daily. Popular games in Physical Education include;- Football, Basketball, Hockey, Athletics and Cricket.

In general, Physical Education is “Education through the Physical”. It aims develop students’ physical competence and knowledge of movement and safety and their ability to use this to perform wide ranges of activities associated with the development of an active and healthy lifestyle. It also develops student’s confidence and generic skills especially those of collaboration, communication, creativity, critical thinking and aesthetic appreciation. These, together with the nurturing of positive values and attitudes in physical education provides a good foundation for student’s lifelong and wide learning (Beghetto, R. A., and Kaufman, J. C, 2011).

The ultimate goal of any teaching activity is to facilitate effective learning among students. In an attempt to ensure that effective learning takes place, teachers effort should be geared towards ideas, methods and skills (Abolade, E. E. 2004). There is no gain saying that student in modern world of science, technology and information explosion are expose to myriad of information from different sources. It is expected that this information should be acquired, perceived, internalized, retained, intercepted and utilized by students in a similar or novel environment with view to succeed in examination in particular and life in general.

The teaching of sports apart from its physiological benefits as a motivational factor is known to take a more lasting effect on students learning. Some process skills on the other hand, appear to have a longer life span and are positively related to acquisition of appropriate scientific attitudes and habits because even those dropouts from school at some stage are those that might not later specialized in scientifically intelligent question and pursue the solutions to their problems in like manners (Barker, L., and Borko, H., 2011). The importance of these cannot be over emphasized; given that the world is daily become more scientifically and technologically sophisticated.

For accuracy and provision, most science teachers tend to feel that these processes can only be use of expensive imported apparatus. However, in the wake of increasing enrolment, dwindling economy and stringent financial support for science, there is general call on teacher to use available local resources for improvisation to reduce cost and conserve hard foreign exchange.


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