Features and Content of Training of Future Primary School Teachers for Forming a Healthy Lifestyle of Students in Physical Education Lessons

Abstract

The article reveals the features and characterizes the content of the training of future primary school teachers for the formation of a healthy lifestyle for students in physical education lessons. The main provisions on which the training of future primary school teachers by means of physical education is based are defined. A person-oriented approach to the content of the training of future teachers is revealed. It has been proven that the content of the training of future teachers is a means of cultural transmission, mastering which acquirer adapts to the changing conditions of society, becomes capable of no adaptive activity. The main tasks of training future primary school teachers are defined, then its content is revealed, which consists of elements of social culture accumulated by mankind and passed on from generation to generation: a set of knowledge, abilities and skills, the formation of a worldview, as well as the mastering of the experience of humanity in a certain direction. A special component of the content of the studentsʼ training is singled out ‒ the acquisition of the ability to form a healthy lifestyle in elementary school students during physical education lessons. The importance of the physical education lesson in the formation of a healthy lifestyle of students is revealed. The content components of the training of future primary school teachers through the processes of forming a healthy lifestyle of students in physical education lessons have been established: knowledge, motor actions, physical exercises, bodily functions of the body, health systems, attitude to oneʼs health, to oneself, as values. Attention is drawn to the characteristics of health-improving systems, lifestyle, purposeful motor activity, and psychological readiness of future primary school teachers for the formation of a healthy lifestyle for students in physical education classes. The specifics of training future primary school teachers for the formation of a healthy lifestyle of students through the means of physical education are revealed. It has been proven that a health-preserving approach determines new goals and the result of training future primary school teachers for the formation of a healthy lifestyle for students by means of physical education.
 Key words: features; content; preparation; future teachers; elementary school; formation of a healthy lifestyle; younger schoolchildren; physical education lessons.