Exercises improve our cardiovascular health, our flexibility as well as the strength muscles as well as general body fitness. Despite the fact that fitness programs are not suitable for young children, sports are encouraged at any early age. Sports and other physical activities are said to give the children an opportunity to be inculcated with good behaviors at personal and social levels. This helps ward off the negative behaviors and thoughts that the children might develop due to the life stresses.
People also participate in sports for enjoyment reasons and for creating social alliances with others. The enjoyment comes from the ability to express oneself freely, engaging in challenging activities and the aspect of competition (Athletics, 1985). Problem Statement Sports and athletics are beneficial to human beings in a number of ways. They are beneficial to their health, important to the development of their social as well as personal behaviors and even a source of fun and enjoyment (McEwan and Barry 1988).
Coaches are therefore called upon to design special programs that are suitable for the specific ages. Although skill training program is vital for psychological health, designing a training program in track and skills for ages 6-11 years old will significantly advance the athletics skills of kids and increase their opportunities for achieving competing teams in sports. Scope and Nature of the Project The scope usually include the main goal of the project is to help physical education teachers in Kuwait elementary schools to teach, coach track and field skills development of kids; thus make their competing teams.
The study aims to design programs for children between ages six and eleven. It will also look at the relevance of the coaches to the children in terms of identifying what is relevant for the specific age bracket. Objectives of the Study 1) To find out how program will help physical education teachers in Kuwait elementary schools to teach, coach track and field skills; thus make their competing teams 2) To establish the importance of athletics to young kids of ages 6 to 11 years 3) To ascertain factors that affect effective teaching of young children Research Questions 1) What are the benefits of designing a training program in track and skills for elementary school athletes? 2) Of what benefit will the study be to the teachers, children and even the coaches? 3) What factors influence the success of a coach working with young children?
Significance of the study This study is aimed at improving the teaching skills for the coaches of athletics as well as shot-put to the young children. The study will also benefit the young children as the findings will enable the coaches design programs suitable for them. The aim of designing the training program is to be an innovator in coaching children in elementary school in order to increase their opportunities for achieving sports excellence at every level. Limitations of the study 1) The study will be limited to designing a program for the 100 meters and the shot-put field activity. 2) Time will also be a constraint to this study since the children are expected to attend class as well as learn the new program in the field.
CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW Providing training programs for anyone regardless of age, skill or gender is significant. Varied literatures have attempted to examine the way developing athletic talent is crucial not only for psychological fitness but also developing a competitive team (Mackinnon, 87). They have also made significant efforts of revealing the way training and developing a competitive team is a long term training process. This is because it starts from learning up to competing level; thus training elementary school children of age 6-11 will enable the coaches to develop a competitive team in the future.
McCallie (56) argues that building a fierce competitive athletic team requires the coaches to start training kids earlier on how to think and focus on making correct decisions in life.
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