The Physical Education teachers training in aquatic contents

Abstract

Intoduction: Teacher training is a key element in the quality of teaching work. Since water activities are not included in educational legislation, be the teacher will be who decides whether or not to include them, and this leads us to think that it may depend on their training in this regard. In addition, the level of initial and continuous training of different physical education teachers varies, taking great importance in their application.

Goals: The main objective of the study was to verify the formation in the aquatic contents by the faculty of physical education.

Method: 176 teachers of physical education in a Spanish region have been consulted about these contents, relating it to gender, qualifications, work situation, teaching experience, type of courses, who taught classes in aquatic activities and Opinion of general aspects of physical education on the inclusion of aquatic activities in the school environment.

Results: After the analysis, few teachers have recognized that aquatic activities are not usually introduced in the programs because they are not formed for this, although the greater number of teachers agreed that many colleagues are unaware of the potential applications of these contents in their field. Age attainment, initial training, age, and continuous training in aquatic activities, etc., have a different influence on the application of aquatic activities in the school setting.

Conclusions: Initial and continuous training is decisive for the implementation of aquatic activities, being a decisive bet for the implantation in the schools of suitable and useful form.

Keywords: aquatic activities; training; swimming; aquatic skills; teacher.