Elements and methods of organization, design and management of extracurricular sports activities

Abstract

In secondary high schools, in Italy, there is the custom of organizing physical and sports activities in extracurricular time, with the main purpose of spreading the sport practice as a lifestyle. To be effective, teaching for starting sports must be focused on innovative proposals, able to involve the student and make the teaching-learning path easier. For this purpose, the recent theories about learning and physical control provide interesting insights for the structuring of the didactic action. It becomes necessary to provide the student concrete play situations, without leaving out the theoretical knowledge, in order to reach a real and conscious competence. The objective of this study is to identify innovative methodologies for the organization of sports activities, in extracurricular time, in secondary high schools. The method of documentary and theoretical archive research with an interpretative deductive approach consulting the reference literature.