Application of Educational Idea of Individuation in Physical

Education Teaching

Li Jinsong and Ni Ni

Chengdu Aeronautic Polytechnic, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610100, China

Keywords: Individualized Physical Education, Educational Idea, Teaching Method.

Abstract: With the deepening reform of education, individualized education, as the key point of physical education

reform at present, could effectively promote students’ quality. This work explored the main features of

individualized education on the basic theory of individualized education and related references.

Furthermore, the work also proposed that teachers should correctly understand the educational idea of

individuation. Finally, application of individualized education in PE teaching was discussed from PE

teaching objective, content, environment optimization and innovative evaluation, thus promoting reform of

PE teaching.

1 INTRODUCTION

With the deepening of reform in China, much

attention has been paid to the cultivation of students’

comprehensive quality and improvement of their

creative ability. This is the inevitable requirement of

the development of current knowledge economy.

One key point of quality education reform is to

improve students’ personality, thus excavating their

potential energy. As an important part of modern

education, physical education teaching is of

significance for the cultivation of students’

comprehensive quality and improvement of their

creative ability. Therefore, it is of extreme

importance to apply educational idea of

individuation to PE teaching. Individualized

education attaches attention to students’ individual

difference, better motivating students’ initiative for

physical training. Besides, students’ physiology,

psychology and social factors are considered in

individualized education. Therefore, idea application

of individualized education in PE teaching can

effectively improve the teaching effect, promoting

the all-round development of students.

2 CONCEPTS OF

EDUCATIONAL IDEA OF

INDIVIDUATION

2.1 Concept Analysis of Educational

Idea of Individuation based on PE

Teaching

French educator Fred says: if one has made

achievements in certain area, then he will further

succeed in other areas. Namely, when one's potential

has been fully exploited, the potential in other areas

will be exerted to improve his comprehensive

quality. In PE teaching, things are almost the same.

Due to the difference of students’ individual

qualities, there are differences in their interests,

learning needs or other requirements. Traditional

unity teaching method is bound to hinder the

development of students’ personality. While in

individualized education, students can fully

recognize and develop their talents under teachers’

guidance during physical education learning.

Furthermore, once students’ talents are exploited,

their learning motivation will be improved. Under

the guidance of teachers, many learning teams can

be united among students based on their interests.

Then students can learn more by methods such as

cooperation and exploration, gradually forming

learning target of lifelong exercise.

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2.2 Main Basis of Developing the

Educational Idea of Individuation

Two levels are included in the main basis of

developing the educational idea of individuation.

The first is the foundation of psychological theory.

The individual difference of students is a kind of

objective existence, which cannot be changed into

unified thinking and psychology. Additionally,

although students’ psychology and knowledge

improves, there is also a fluctuation in their

psychology. As being in the stage of seeking

knowledge, students lack social experience, with bad

self-awareness. Thereby, their psychology and ideas

show great plasticity. Without correct guidance,

there will be a serious negative impact on their

development. So it is necessary to conduct

individualized physical education for the difference

of students’ psychological development. In this way,

students’ development will be correctly guided, so

that they can establish their lifelong learning goals

for sports.

The second is the base of new reform idea of

teaching course. As there are many defects in

traditional curriculum, new curriculum has

addressed these issues. In this reform, much

attention is paid to the construction of knowledge

structure and cultivation of cognitive ability of

students based on the idea of constructivism and

humanism. Through self-learning, students could

constantly discover new content, thus transforming

from traditional passive learning to active form.

Meantime, students will become the subject in

teaching. Through the role change, students’

learning initiative can be explored. In this way,

students can better absorb the learned knowledge,

thus improving their comprehensive quality.

2.3 Main Features of Physical

Education of Individuation

The main features of physical education of

individuation include the following aspects.

The first feature is fairness. Physical education of

individuation is the fair education in a real sense,

because the core of such education is teaching

students according to their aptitudes. Such teaching

model, in which teaching content and methods

established on the basis of individual differences,

can better meet individual needs and development.

Therefore, this teaching model is fairer than rigid

uniformity ones.

The second is leading character. In PE teaching,

teachers emphasize the development of students’

personality and excavation of potential. So guidance

is important in education. Therefore, students are

able to learn with specific goals after they have

transformed from passive learning into active form.

Students' initiative can be promoted through content

framework, and their learning motivation can be

enhanced.

The third is diversity. Individualized education has

the feature of diversity. Diversity is reflected not

only in the teaching methods and contents, but also

in the organization and evaluation of teaching

course. In this way, the individualized education for

students is fully realized, thus meeting the different

learning needs of students.

The fourth is comprehensiveness.

Comprehensiveness of individualized education

means students’ all-round development.

Individualized education enables to mobilize

students’ potential, thus contributing to the

exploitation and development of their special talents.

From Fred’s theory, it can be known that if one’s

certain quality has been improved, his quality in

other areas also left. Therefore, individualized

education is a kind of model to promote the all-

round development of students.

The fifth is the social adaptability. One of the new

goals of sports teaching is to improve students’

social adaptability. Students’ personality

development is the requirement of social

development, while it is the same of society to

people. The core aim of individualized education is

the improvement of students’ social adaptability,

thus promoting their all-round development.

3 APPLICATION OF

INDIVIDUALIZED

EDUCATION IN PE TEACHING

3.1 Correct Cognition of Teachers to

Application of Individualized

Education in PE Teaching

Individualized education has been gradually

emphasized by PE teachers with the deepening of

the reform of PE teaching. At present, the cognition

of individualized education of teachers mainly

involve following aspects.

Firstly, teachers’ job aims at impelling students to

exercise and improving students’ physical quality

via innovative teaching methods. The reformed

teaching course has allowed enough spaces for

teachers no matter the organization or teaching

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methods during teaching process. While there are

some deviations in teachers’ cognition, they prefer

making students the subject rather than playing the

guiding role. For this issue, PE teachers could

completely conduct individual guidance to different

students by their own specialty and knowledge

experience, thus improving teaching effect.

Secondly, as student's personality is continuously

developing, the individual requirements of different

students are different in physical exercise. For

example, some students prefer to fashion sports like

skateboard or hip-hop. If PE teachers blindly choose

running or broadcast gymnastics as teaching content,

then it is hardly to meet students’ sports interests. In

the new reform of PE curriculum, definite

requirement has been proposed that teachers should

possess certain creative ability. By the innovation of

the teaching content around the goals, it is possible

to realize the all-round development of students.

Thirdly, for the difference of physical quality and

sports interest, most students would choose the

sports events with low intensity or small amount of

exercise. However, such trainings could not

stimulate students’ sports interest, thus influencing

the teaching effect. Therefore, PE teachers should

learn students’ interests and habits prior to the

selection of teaching projects during teaching

process. In this way, it is easier to transform these

sports into students’ living habits. Then, the selected

programs should be analyzed for their positive

function for students. Finally, teaching contents

should combine students’ psychological

development and social adaptability to promote the

formation of their lifelong goals for physical

exercise.

3.2 Concrete Application of

Individualized Education in PE

Teaching

3.2.1 Appropriate Adjustment for Teaching

Goal of PE Teaching

Great progress has been achieved with the deepening

of the reform of PE teaching. Especially the reform

of new curriculum, it combines both national and

regional PE curriculums. Through processing and

innovation, it has built the teaching goals that accord

with the development of society and students’

personality. In these curriculums, the personality and

difference of students, teachers, society and school

have been emphasized to develop students’

personality and specialty. Meanwhile, the difference

and uniqueness of students are also respected in

teaching goals, realizing the subject position of

students rather than knowledge. Therefore, the idea

of individualized education promote the reform and

adjustment of teaching goals, thus bringing PE

teaching with open, democratic and dynamic

natures. Besides, the teaching goals have

transformed form teachers’ impartment to students’

absorption for knowledge. Furthermore,

corresponding basic goals and higher goals are

formulated based on the difference of students.

Then, students are able to enjoy their progress and

success, thus increasing their learning interests.

3.2.2 Selection of Teaching Content

Individualized education not means putting sheep

out to pasture type teaching—allowing students to

exercise freely. In fact, the role of teachers is very

important. Some teachers do not realize this point,

just allowing students to seek the sports that fit

themselves. This kind of thought is obviously

incorrect, for it has ignored the guiding role of

teachers. Besides, it would make PE teaching

disordered. For this situation, teachers should

change their concepts and introduce more teaching

contents under the guidance of new curriculums,

particularly the selection of teaching content. Then,

students could choose the training programs suitable

for themselves to effectively develop their

personality. Besides, teachers could also stimulate

students’ training enthusiasm from the aspects of

basic learning and developmental learning. The core

of basic learning is to allow students master some

basic theories and programs of physical training;

while developmental learning mainly emphasize the

improvement of students’ interests and specialty.

Then, students would have the desire to explore in

PE learning, thus becoming more active in learning.

3.2.3 Optimization of Physical Education

Environment

Individualized education aims to creating an equal

and joyful learning environment. In this

environment, an important center is the

psychological environment constructed by the

relationship between teachers and students. One

innovative point of new curriculum is the

optimization of traditional teachers’ dignity. The

role of teachers in class is guidance, promotion and

supervision rather than execution and management.

In this teaching environment, teachers should fully

understand and respect students’ performance, with

more encouragement and praise. Then, students’

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motivation would be motivated, so that they could

exercise freely. Furthermore, students would also

form their correct learning direction under

reasonable constraint.

3.2.4 Application on Evaluation of PE

Teaching

A key content of individualized education is to

change the evaluation model of traditional teaching,

including the content and standard of evaluation. In

individualized education, the evaluation standard is

no longer the results but the learning process. In

addition, there are vertical comparison of student

himself and horizontal comparison among students

to make the evaluation more scientific. Through

vertical comparison, students could find the

motivation to progress continuously. While

horizontal comparison allows students to know the

deficiency from others, thus motivating them to

surpass themselves. This evaluation model has its

individualized features. For example, in practical

evaluations, the evaluation content includes

students’ physical ability, motor skills, learning

attitudes and behaviors and ability development.

Besides, this evaluation combines the evaluations of

student himself, other students and teachers.

4 CONCLUSIONS

The concept of individualized PE teaching is a kind

of open, active teaching idea. It emphasizes not only

students’ individual development, but also the all-

round development of students’ comprehensive

quality, thus forming a lifelong exercise habit.

Meanwhile, teachers should also update their ideas

to reform traditional teaching ideas, and find a

teaching model corresponding to individualized

education. Then, students’ enthusiasm and interest

can be fully motivated, improving the effect of PE

teaching.

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