Essentials of Training in Physical Education

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical-practical teaching with alternation between direct instruction, experimentation and reflection work and production of knowledge and instruments, emphasizing group work, application of knowledge and critical analysis, resulting planning instruments / design substantiated and / or reports of critical analysis of that application, under the coordinative abilities.

Promotes the autonomy and problem solving by students, aiming the interrelationship between the content.

Learning Outcomes

The unit fulfills one of the foundations of Physical Education. The module of development of biomotor capacities applied to the context of physical education classes and scholar sports programs is focused on the methodology of training, taking into consideration the exercise and its contribution to physical fitness. The students must show the knowledge to:

- Control and evaluate the lof biomotor capacities level

- Understand and implement specific warm-up strategies associated with different kinds of activities

- Develop specific methods to develop the different manifestations of the biomotor capacities: endurance, strength, speed and flexibility.

- Recognize the beneficial aspects of the regenerative exercise to prevent excessive fatigue

- Be able to applied the basics of planning and periodization of training principles according to maturation and

development level of the students.

- To know the different working out methods of development of coordinative abilities in PE classes.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Control and evaluation of the physical fitness

Make the linkage for improvement the biomotor capacities, in accordance with the annual class plan, and the learning contents.

The methods of training (continuous and interval training) for:

- improve the endurance, long and medium duration - improve strength, power and resistance

- improve speed, reaction time and acceleration and sprint capacity

- improve static and dynamic flexibility.

- warm-up and recovery routines.- Influence of optical perceptions; vestibular; acoustic; kinesthetic and tactile in motor control.

- Classification of coordinative abilities

- Methods to develop coordinative abilities: variations in the execution of the movement; variations in external conditions; combination of skills already automated; exercising controlled by time; exercising in a state of fatigue.

- Methodologies and strategies of development of coordinative abilities in PE classes and their integration in the three levels of planning.

Head Lecturer(s)

Luís Manuel Pinto Lopes Rama

Assessment Methods

Assessment
The assessment of this module provides for a mid term exam (40% of the curricular unit) as well as the development of a work planning, implementation and critical review of a proposal for the development of conditional and coordinative abilities of students in classes EF, in response to a problem posed (60% of the total).: 100.0%

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