Function of Excitation Method on School PE Educational

Management

Yanni ZHANG

Yangtze University College of Technology & Engineering, Jingzhou, Hubei, 434020, China

Keywords: PE Educational Management, Excitation Method, Learning Efficiency, Quality Training.

Abstract: At the request of new curriculum reform, new requirements have been set for physical education. Students

are required to participate in the learning and training of PE classes, which is also stipulated as a necessary

condition for good grades in PE course. The application of excitation method in school PE educational

management is conducive to the smooth progress of teaching and comprehensive development of students.

Thereupon, the work began with explorations on the positive functions of excitation method on school PE

educational management by means of combining theory with practice. On this basis, in order to find new

ideas and methods to ensure the progress of teaching and enhance students’ overall abilities and qualities,

in-depth research were carried out to discuss the proper use of excitation method in PE educational

management.

1 INTRODUCTION

As the pace of curriculum reform is accelerated, PE

course has received more attention than before. It

has become a topic commonly concerned by all the

PE peers to make PE a meaningful course that meets

the requirements of both curriculum reform and

quality-oriented education. Therefore, the excitation

method is widely applied in the management of

school PE teaching.

2 PE EDUCATIONAL

MANAGEMENT UNDER

CURRICULUM REFORM

The new curriculum reform has set some new

requirements for each subject and PE is of no

exception. Compared with the traditional classroom

teaching, the new curriculum reform has paid much

more attention to the improvement of student's

qualities and integrated development. In other

words, PE is no longer a dispensable course without

exams. On the contrary, more emphases should be

laid on the enhancement of students' physical

qualities and abilities (Chang Songwei, 2013).

Due to the traditional exam-oriented education,

all the teaching methods in favor of the score-first

theory were allowed in class, while that were

adverse to increasing the scores promptly were

rejected. Moreover, the courses not included in the

entrance or graduation exam were even "removed

from students' curriculum" in order not to affect the

improvement of students' overall scores. PE was one

of those courses at that time (Liu Changguo, 2004).

Owing to the particularity of PE, classes were

reduced or even canceled in many schools. Even if

PE course still remained, schools only went through

the motions of it. PE was often changed into activity

class or self-study class, and as a result, students

could hardly obtain the real knowledge, skills,

abilities or qualities from classroom teaching of PE.

However, the new curriculum reform requires

teachers to give play to the principle role of students

so as to promote their integrated development.

Although the status of PE in the exams has not been

fundamentally changed after the reform, it begins to

obtain increasing attention as an important course

promoting the qualities and integrated development

of students. No longer dispensable, PE course allows

no going through the motions any more. Instead,

students should be encouraged to play the principle

role in PE class and the three-dimensional objective

is expected to be achieved in classroom teaching.

Aiming for the realization of three-dimensional

objective, PE teachers and schools should both

strengthen their school PE educational management

in order to transform the simple imparting teaching

to the interactive quality-oriented education. In this

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DOI: 10.5220/0006024502910295

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way, PE class can serve as a base to enhance

students' abilities and a main platform to promote

their integrated development.

3 ROLE OF EXCITATION

METHOD IN THE SCHOOL PE

EDUCATIONAL

MANAGEMENT

The excitation method in the school PE educational

management, if applied in a proper way, will add

luster to school PE teaching and contribute to

promote the comprehensive development of

students. Then what role on earth does the excitation

method play in the school PE educational

management?

3.1 Being Conducive for Students to

Cultivate Learning Interest

Since sports are full of fun and challenges, for

students, PE can be either a pleasurable course, or a

tiring course that makes students feel both physically

and mentally exhausted. It is known that sports gain

a high ornamental value, but sports learning and

training are highly painstaking. Only by maintaining

a keen interest in PE, can students keep active and

persistent during sports learning and training.

There are many methods to cultivate students’

learning interest, among which the excitation

method is one of the most effective ways. For

example, once finding students tired of learning and

training in the process of teaching, PE teachers

should tactfully employ the excitation method to

help students get rid of tiredness and persist in sports

learning and training. Among various reasons that

cause students to lose interest in learning and

training, feeling bored with learning and training and

losing confidence in them are both very important

ones. With the utilization of excitation method in PE

educational management, the whole class will

become more vivacious and helpful for students to

overcome the problem of lacking confidence so that

students can rediscover their interest in learning and

training, as well as take an active part in the PE

course again.

3.2 Being Helpful for Students to Set

Clear Objectives

Like a lighthouse indicating directions in sailing, a

clear objective can cheer people up to persevere with

high morale. There are quite a few cases where

students give up halfway in the process of learning

and training on account of their unclear and

unrealistic objectives. Hence, it is an urgent issue for

PE teachers to guide students to set a clear and

scientific objective.

In the mean time, a timely and rational usage of

excitation method will help students to well define

their objectives and inspire them to make

unremitting endeavor to achieve their goals. For

instance, in order to arouse students' morale while

teaching, PE teachers can take advantage of some

stories where someone finally made a success with

arduous efforts to achieve his established goal.

Inspired, students will learn to set clear objectives

for success and persevere to make them come true.

3.3 Being Beneficial for Students to

Correct Their Mentalities towards

Learning and Training

Incorrect mentality is a significant factor that leads

to incorrect attitude towards learning and training,

while incorrect attitude can cause students to give up

halfway. The emergence of incorrect mentalities,

such as self-abasement and self-conceit, will

seriously prevent students from developing correct

attitudes towards learning and training, which is

adverse to their commitment in learning and

training. Properly motivated, students are able to

acquire a better knowledge of their characteristics,

objectives and positions, so as to correct their

mentalities to deal with PE course and their

performance in classes. Finally, with students' right

attitudes towards PE course established, the

classroom teaching and training can proceed

smoothly and students' personal physical qualities

can be enhanced as well.

3.4 Being Favorable for Students to

Develop Strong Volition

Indispensable for learning, training and competition,

a strong volition is also an important part of a sound

personality. Under the circumstances of quality-

oriented education that aims to promote the

integrated development of students, it is of vital

significance for students to build up a sound

personality, which has become a commonality

among all the courses education.

In addition, a strong volition is also a

prerequisite for a successful career. As a course to

develop skills and improve physical fitness, PE is a

key subject for students to cultivate a strong volition.

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During PE classes, teachers should make full use of

all sorts of methods to hone students' volition, thus,

the appropriate application of excitation method is

rather effective.

Generally speaking, sports training and

competitions are often contests of volition, where

the one who holds on straight to the end is able to

achieve the ultimate success. Once teachers or

coaches find their athletes have a thought of giving

up, it is likely to cheer them up to stick it out for the

final victory with some verbal incentives.

3.5 Being Available for Students to

Culture Competitive Spirits

Just as biological evolution is a process of survival

of the fittest, the contemporary society is also full of

competitions. The one who wants to survive in the

society must have a strong spirit of competition.

Therefore, the cultivation of competitive spirits is an

inevitable requirement for the integrated

development of students, and meanwhile, a feature

for the fulfillment of quality-oriented education and

the education of quality-oriented talents. By means

of excitation method, students are motivated to

strive hard for their objectives and dramatically

strengthen their consciousness of competition. At the

same time, some stipulations about rules in the

excitation approach are available for students to

establish an awareness of fair competition, as well as

enhance their consciousness of rules and legality.

3.6 Being Valuable for Students to

Better Examine Themselves

Self-reflection and examination are valuable for the

discovery of personal problems in expectation for

greater progress in the future. The excitation method

adopted in PE teaching can help students to more

profoundly figure out their strengths and weaknesses

through comparisons and competitions. Thus,

students can take advantage of their strengths in the

process of learning and training, make up for their

weaknesses and accomplish greater progress.

3.7 Being Good for Students to

Cooperate in a Team

Collectivism spirit and sense of teamwork, as an

important part of workers' qualities under the current

socialized mass production, have become one of the

several demands of society for elites. It is in favor of

class management and beneficial for the community

to foster qualified talents through training students'

sense of teamwork. If combined with the excitation

method, it will be more conducive for students to

strengthen their sense of collective honor, sense of

teamwork and collectivism spirit. For example, In

order to motivate students in PE teaching, teachers

can organize a class by encouraging competition in

groups so as to spur students to cooperate with each

other for triumph. In such a way, students' sense of

collective honor will be enhanced unprecedentedly

and their sense of teamwork will be gradually

developed.

3.8 Being Important for Students to

Enhance Their Enthusiasm of

Patriotism

The future development of society relies on large

quantities of passionate young people with intense

patriotism. Hence, the enhancement of patriotism

should be taken as an important part of school moral

education. By motivating students in use of

examples of Olympic athletes can not only arouse

students' enthusiasm of learning and training, but

also make students feel much more excited and

patriotic.

4 APPLICATION OF

EXCITATION METHOD IN THE

SCHOOL PE EDUCATIONAL

MANAGEMENT

Since excitation method is of great significance for

the management of PE teaching as well as integrated

development of students, PE teachers and other

peers must strive to do well in its proper utilization.

4.1 Using Excitation Method Properly

in Accordance with Scientific

Principles

First and foremost, principle of timeliness is

required to be followed for proper application of

excitation method. To receive effects of incentive,

teachers must ensure that every incentive is carried

out in time, with whichever method. Incentive words

or other methods must be utilized to motivate

students immediately after incidents; otherwise the

effect of incentive will gradually disappear in such a

long time.

Next, principle of "incentive" should also be

observed. As excitation method is not merely used

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for the completion of teaching tasks, it is incorrect to

"only stimulate without encouragement". In other

words, teachers must make an appropriate use of

opportunity and excitation method. Just as the

saying goes, "work must be done to the point".

Finally, principle of comprehensiveness needs to

be upheld. Teaching with excitation method means

not to only apply one method alone or to aim at just

a few students. Specifically, it is easy to result in

isolationism if one excitation method is used alone,

then its role of incentive will fail to be authentically

played out; Similarly, only aiming at some students

is likely to give rise to a phenomenon that "one

succeeds while one fails". Therefore, it is ultimately

not conducive to the educational management or the

integrated development of students.

4.2 Motivating Students with Incentive

Words

Using incentive words to motivate students in the

school PE educational management is the most

common excitation method. Teachers should use

incentive words to inspire students, help them

develop learning interest and instruct them to

overcome problems occurred in the process of

learning, so that students will actively participate in

the future learning and training.

For example, when a student gets a good grade,

words, such as "You are awesome”, “You can be

even better”, can make students more enthusiastic

and confident in his learning and training; When a

student confronts with setbacks and nearly loses

confidence, teachers should communicate with that

student in time and help him reestablish confidence

by telling him that trouble is temporary and all

setbacks are surmountable.

4.3 Inspiring Students with Their Own

Good Behaviors

Teachers are models for students to learn from and

students pick up many habits from their teachers.

Teachers' excellent performance can always arouse

students' enthusiasm. Similarly, if a teacher himself

feels bored, his students will become much more

negative. Thereupon, in the management of

teaching, teachers must firstly establish a good

image in students' minds to inspire and encourage

them better.

For example, teachers should manage to

accomplish what they require the students to do in

order to make students feel fair with teacher. As a

repay for teacher, students will keep in high morale.

If a teacher requires students to gather in the

playground on time, then the teacher himself should

wait in the playground in advance; if a teacher

requires students to persist in doing something, the

teacher himself should take the initiative, and

gradually students will improve themselves in the

process of imitating their teacher.

4.4 Encouraging Students by Forgiving

Their Mistakes

As a young group, students are prone to making

mistakes in study and daily life. When students

make some mistakes, teachers should not blindly

blame them, but offer forgiveness and guidance

instead. Teachers' tolerance to students is not

connivance most of the time. In contrast, it can

encourage students to learn from their mistakes and

treasure such mistakes as lifelong wealth. Students

can also promptly refrain from making the same

mistake again and actively involve themselves in

study and life.

4.5 Spurring Students with

Competitive Mechanism

Since young students are generally much more

competitive, teachers can take advantage of this

characteristic to set up a competitive mechanism,

which is conducive to spurring students and arousing

their enthusiasm. If applying the competitive

mechanism in PE educational management, students

will take the initiative to devote in learning and

training under the pressure of competition and sense

of honor.

For instance, teachers can take the chance of

annual sports meeting to motivate students to study

and train harder both for the honor of the whole

class and their own sense of achievement; Besides,

teachers can encourage students to race to be the

first to answer questions in the theoretical teaching

and spur students to compete in groups in the usual

teaching.

4.6 Stimulating Students with the

Power of Models

Young students are often "star chasers", regarding

sports stars and Olympic athletes as their idols.

Many students are very willing to imitate their idols,

even in some aspects of speech, deportment,

behavior and habit. If the hardships and sweat

behind the stars aura of these sports stars can be

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used to stipulate students, they will be more

motivated to strive hard to run after their idols.

For example, Michael Jordan, a superstar in the

history of NBA, has become an idol for many

students. Although his height is only 1.98m, he has

created an amazing myth in the NBA history and

earned the nickname "Air Jordan" with his absolute

bounce of 1.09m and running speed of 10.7s/100m.

Jordan's experience when he was young can be used

to motivate students and enable them to realize that

"No pain, no gains".

5 CONCLUSIONS

The application of excitation method in the school

PE educational management is in favor of the

smooth progress of classroom teaching, the

cultivation of students' interest and the improvement

of their comprehensive qualities. Therefore, in the

realistic teaching practices, teachers and other PE

peers at school must learn to utilize the excitation

method in a proper way, so as to promote the

development of school PE educational management.

REFERENCES

Chang Songwei. On Using the Incentive Method in PE

Teaching, Test & Research: Teaching Forum Teaching

Forum, 2013 (11): 20

Liu Changguo. The Study of the Application of the

Incentive Method in PE Teaching, Juvenile Sports

Training, 2004 (04): 16

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