Research of developing breaststroke teaching programs on metal frame pools for medium grade students of rural elementary schools

• Main Authors: Ming-Chih Hu, 胡銘志
• Other Authors: Cho-Mou Wen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/r46e5v

碩士 === 國立臺東大學 === 進修部暑期體育碩士班 === 105 === In this study, we developed a breaststroke teaching program using metal frame pools at rural elementary schools. During the process of conducting the program, we analyzed its result and strove to understand more deeply students’ questions and obstacles. This study used action research and was aimed at medium grade aboriginal students in rural elementary schools. Before the research began, the students had already participated in 8 to 12 swimming classes in their first and second grade education, and therefore possessed the basic skills of the “jellyfish float,” “rhythm breathing,” and the front crawl, but had never participated in a breaststroke class. After carrying out a literature review and a preliminary study, we drew up our teaching program. We adopted purposive sampling to select six medium grade students (five boys and one girl) from rural elementary schools to join this study. We divided the breaststroke teaching program into ten 40-minute long classes. Our process was as follows: before the first class, we pretested each student to evaluate their skills. Then, we conducted eight classes in metal frame pools. For the latter two, we arranged to conduct the classes in a 25-meter long swimming pool. After the last class, we conducted post-tests for each student. To assess the curriculum’s result, we used the third level of the Ministry of Education’s swimming ability scale, which requires a student to swim a length of at least 25 meters. In this study, we used a class observation system, audio recordings, and teachers’ individual written reflections to collect data. After assessing the teaching program, we conducted the curriculum with four students from another rural elementary school in order to test the teaching program’s cross-validation. Our results showed that four out of six students were able to achieve the Ministry of Education’s swimming ability scale’s third level criteria upon posttesting. One of the students who didn’t achieve the goal touched the bottom of the swimming pool after successfully swimming 18 meters. The other student left the swimming class during the research because of sickness. In conclusion, there was an 80% rate of curriculum target completion. During cross-validation, three of the four students in the study achieved the Ministry of Education’s swimming ability scale’s third level criteria, while one student touched the bottom of the swimming pool after swimming 5 meters. This led to a 75% rate of curriculum target completion. From the above analysis, we can conclude that breaststroke teaching programs on metal frame pools are effective, and could be carried out at other rural elementary schools. If other schools carry out their breaststroke teaching programs on metal frame pools, these schools can not only reduce the transportation problems that may hinder students’ access to swimming courses, but can also enhance the students’ swimming abilities and self-help capabilities.