Athletics teaching in physical education classes

Abstract

Athletics is considered the base sport for all sports, as it comes from the execution of natural movements of man in his most diverse competitions. Knowing that the school, specifically in physical education classes, the child can make the development of physical, motor, cognitive and affective aspects possible through the practice of athletics. This work aims to identify the incidence of the main modalities of athletics worked in the Physical Education classes of the public school system in Bodocó-PE. This study is a quantitative-descriptive, field-based, cross-sectional research. The sample consisted of 14 public school teachers in the city of Bodocó- Pernambuco. A semi-structured questionnaire proposed by the researcher was used, aiming to identify the nature of the practice site, times of development of the practice of athletics, predominance of sex in the practice of athletics at school and the incidence of running, jumping, throwing/launching tests developed in the practices. educational. The data analysis was measured through descriptive statistics by frequency distribution that used the statistical variables, using the SPSS software in its version 23. The results indicate a predominance of males in athletics practices, the field as the predominant place of practice, athletics has been shown to be practiced in both school shifts. Shallow runs (92.9%), long jumps (42.9) and high (57.1%), shot put (35.7%), discus (35.7%), throw dart (28.6%), had a higher incidence. It is concluded that the practice of school athletics in the public school in the city of Bodocó-PE is evidenced in its greatest proportion within the field tests.