Lietuvos kūno kultūros mokytojų sveikatos ugdymo kompetencija stiprinti ugdytinių sveikatą

Abstract

Recent surveys on Lithuanian schoolchildren health and lifestyles showed negative shifts, but most of teachers give preference to their subject, but not health education. The aim of the study was to determine health education competence of Lithuanian physical education teachers that allows promoting schoolchildren's health. The methods 350 physical education teachers from Lithuanian secondary schools filled in the anonymous questionnaires in 2007-2008. The results. It was found that every third fourth physical education teacher self evaluated their health education competence as insufficient. Special abilities ot the Physical education subject and general abilities are less important compared to special health education abilities for successful implementation of health education tasks during the lessons of physical education