Fundamentals and Didactics of motor activities - LEZIONE (2017/2018)

Learning outcomes

The course purpose is providing knowledges and competences which permit the planning , the organisation and the management of physical activities with growing and developmental children, during their first school-age.
At the end of the teaching, all the students will know the physical , cognitive and social characteristics of the school-age children.
Moreover they will show they are able to plan and organize lessons of physical activity which consider the olistic idea of the child.
They will also be able to keep the learning curve with activities which consider both the maturation and the development of children , based on the guide- lines of the contemporary scientific literature.
All the students will be able to define purposes, goals and expertises connected with the physical activities during the school-age and they will be able to identify the peculiarità and the importance of the practice of them for the Executive Functions development.

The motor organic –muscolar,cognitive and emotoional characteristics of school-aged children.

 Acquisition of motor abilities. Foundamental skills: locomotor and not locomotor abilities.
 Learning levels of motor abilities: coordination skills devevopment ( general coordination skills and special coordination skills) and variable availability.
 The game and its motor functions:
• Games and physical activity of orientation and space-time structuring;
• Games and physical activity for the structuring of the body image and of the basic motor schemes;
• Games for the activity and the exercice of the static , dynamics and transferred balance;
• Games and physical activities for timing and rhythm exercice;
• Games and physica activities for the exercice and the reinforcement of laterality and dominance
 Variation and variability of practice: games and physical activities connected to the main Executive Funcion :
• Games which promote the Contextual Interference
• Games which promote the Mental Control
• Games which promote the Discovery

The course is both theoretical and pratical. Lesson expert speeches in classroom and in the gym in the form of lectures and laboratories . During the course, we willdeal with the main methodological aspects together with the ones of didactic practice connected to the management of motor activities propositions.
In particular we will analyse the main teories as to motor learning and to the methodological/educational approach to the different movement situations.

Written exam: five open questions, five minutes each. After each answer the student is required to underline the answer (ability to synthesize information).
Practical exam: an essay with a high level of application in practice (skills).
The exam aim is evaluating the knowledge of the subjects taught (theoretical part) and the competence of transfer them in a sort of lesson which they have to present on the exam day (practical part).
Every answer will value six points. They will be assigned with parameters of correctness, relevance to the question and ability of personal reworked version. The exam assessment will be expressed in thirtieths and it will consider these levels of competence:
• Precision of theoretical contents learned
• Relevance to the question asked
• Personal reworked version of the contents.

STUDENT MODULE EVALUATION - 2017/2018