Professional training of physical education teachers to provide methodological assistance to parents of preschoolers

Abstract

Methodological assistance of a PE teacher to the parents of preschoolers is of utmost importance and, thus, requires special training and skills acquisition. Involvement of parents in physical education and sports will create the necessary conditions for the rational organization of leisure activities for children. Joint work with the family should be based on the following principles: unity, regularity and consistency, as well as an individual approach to each child and family with respect to their interests and abilities, mutual trust and understanding, strengthening both the teachers’ and parental authority. Effective interaction requires PE teachers to use different forms of work with the family. In the course of the survey, the main reasons were identified that prevented parents from paying more attention to health promotion in their children. A survey of PE teachers revealed the problems of parent-teacher interaction, as well as an insufficient level of communicative competencies. A program was developed for training PE teachers and providing methodological assistance to parents of preschoolers. The effectiveness of the program was experimentally proved, which was expressed in improving the communicative competencies of PE teachers, the level of parent-teacher interaction, and the variability of forms of work with the family.