Movement

Education

Why Movement Education?

The reason why I am using a movement education is
because movement education focuses on the
physical development of students. It allows children
to get involved in active games, it is child centred
and it is non competitive. Through the movement
education we are working on developing students
physical and intellectual skills. Importantly this will
provide students with a meaningful learning
experience (Celik & Johnson, 2016).

What is Movement Education?

Movement
education
develops
students motor skills and increases
their cognitive knowledge in regards to
movement. Movement education is
about developing a very wide base in
order for students to develop their
skills in carrying out different types of
movement (Ables & Bridges, 2015,
p.5). Therefore, movement is the
content of physical education (Ables
& Bridges as cited in Logsdom &
Barrett, 1984, p. 141).

Movement Education
Framework
A particular framework is used by the movement education to
classify movement and motivate students to construct a movement
vocabulary to put in the movement content.
The good thing about the movement education framework is that it
can be adapted to all ages
Another good thing is that students can talk to the teacher and other
students regarding their movement. This leads to an excellent
learning environment (Abels & Bridges, 2015).
Kogan (2003) has stated that according to the physical education
framework adopted by the State Board of Education, there are three
main goals of physical education, movement skills and knowledge,
self-image and personal development and social development (p.3).

Fundamental Movement skills

Some of these movement forms are often used in physical education:
-

Run

- Jump
- Gallop
- Hop
- Leap
- Skip
- Dodge
- Catch
- Strike
- Kick (Abels & Bridges, 2015)

Discussion on movement education strengthsas a

teachingapproach
There are many strengths related to movement education as
a teaching approach. It allows children to become:
- Flexible
- Have balance
- Develops social skills
- Allows children to have a positive feeling about themselves

Through movement education teachers can identify any

problems or issues students have with their motor skills and
then try and improve on it

 Another strength of movement education is that

children's social skills can be identified. If a
student has social difficulties then it can be
easily pointed out through the movement lessons
and this will help the teacher to try and help to
improve students social skills
Movement education also allows the teacher to
identify the different learning styles students
have. There are certain characteristics that can
be identified such as concentration ability, how
much a students remembers and self acceptance
of the students are identified etc (Kogan, 2013).

References

Abels, K., & Bridges, J. M. (2015).Teaching Movement Education-Google Edition:

Foundations for
Active Lifestyles. Human Kinetics.

Kogan, Sheila (2003).Step by step : a complete movement education

curriculum(2nd ed). Human
Kinetics, Champaign, IL
Sevimli-Celik, S., & Johnson, J. E. (2015). Teacher preparation for movement
education: increasing preservice teachers competence for working with young children.Asia-Pacific
Journal of Teacher
Education, 1-15.