This study was designed to assess the effect of the implementation of the PE curriculum by specialist PE teachers compared to generalist teachers on children’s physical development and physical fitness in the first three years of schooling. 146 classes from 66 Slovenian primary schools were assigned to intervention (71) and control (75) groups. Specialist PE teachers were more successful than generalist teachers in planning and delivering effective PE lessons and achieving statistically significant improvement of children’s physical fitness and physical development.
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This was the first cohort study of obesity on Slovenian data whose objective was to examine the tracking of obesity from childhood to young adulthood. A 12-year cohort subsample included 4,833 children, tracked from age 7 to age 18. Height, weight, and BMI at 18 years were well predicted from childhood and became more predictable with age, while triceps skinfold fat was not. Obese and overweight children had the greatest risk of becoming obese or overweight young adults and over 40% of people who were obese at 18 years had already been obese at 7 years.
COBISS.SI-ID: 3979697
Some data, presented in this paper, also show that students from different secondary school pragrames are dissimilar not only in the level of their achieved knowledge in primary school, but also in the number of physical education lessons, accessibility to extra-curicular and out-of school sport programmes their physical fitness, knowledge about the benefits of physical activity and the socio-economic status of their families. In the context of fairnes, the school system should neutralise some of the social inequalities among young people.
COBISS.SI-ID: 4023473
In PE for primary school, gymnastics is one of the most important contents. In the 1st and the 2nd 3 year cycle of PE can be taught by class teacher or PE teacher, while in the 3rd cycle only specialised PE teachers. The aim of our study was to find out how PE teachers comply with the prescribed gymnastics content. Results show PE teachers spend 9.8 hours on gymnastics per year. Mostly they teach easy contents. At the same time, PE teachers avoid gymnastic which include a flight phase, turns or have a small support area as they think such elements are not appropriate for primary school.
COBISS.SI-ID: 3899569