英文摘要 |
The research is to discuss the impacts and the current developments of thirty minute gross motor activities in public kindergartens through interviewing seven public kindergarten teachers with in-house designed questionnaires. The purpose of the questionnaire was to understand the developments and affecting factors for thirty minute gross motor activities in public schools. After analyzing the questionnaires, the outcome showed that most of the thirty minute gross motor activities were allocated from 9:30 to 10:00 am with the consideration to avoid intense exercise after snack time and to maintain the consistency of curriculum. The precise definition of gross motor activities differed in individual teachers interpretation; however, activities involving large muscles, e.g. running and playground exercise, were generally accepted as one form of gross motor activities. Most of the teachers did not specifically involve these activities in the curriculum due to the understanding that activities most of the four to six year old children performed already involved large muscles. Thus there was no need to expand the topics in the curriculum. This study also found that there were two additional factors that customized gross motor activities were not popular in kindergarten. The first factor was the insufficiency of the space in most kindergarten and the deficiency of the equipment for gross motor activities. Secondly, teachers did not have knowledge designing such activities. In addition, workshop and the other events/resources educating teachers on the topics are still limited and not easy to reach. |