Formation of motivation for professional and applied physical training in future elementary teachers

Abstract

The purpose of our work is to 1) study the peculiarities of professional and applied physical training of future elementary teachers in various forms of education and 2) to develop guidance for the organizational and methodological conditions for the formation of motivation in students in order to improve the effectiveness of physical education and professional and applied training. To achieve these goals and objectives, we used the following research methods: theoretical analysis and review of references, observation, surveying, psychological and locomotor testing, pedagogical experiment, and methods of mathematical statistics. The motivations that encourage female students to study full-time from the second to fourth year increase in terms of “acquiring of knowledge” from 66.6% to 77.8% and “mastering a profession” from 66.0% to 87.0%. The motivation to study in part-time female students is lower than that in fourth-year full-time female students due to the prevailing motivation of "obtaining a diploma”. The results of the experiment formed the basis for the development of organizational and methodological conditions for the formation of motivation for professional and applied physical training of part-time female students. At the end of the study, the respondents’ objectivity of real selfevaluation of physical health increased to the “average” level of physical fitness in female students and to the level of physical fitness standards in upper-level students. The theoretical preparedness in female students improved by 21%, especially in terms of methodological issues.