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TIE (Tanzania Institute of Education)
Ways to Promote Sports in Schools
Sport deserves
as much as attention as any other academic subject. However, in today’s day and
age, youngsters are spending more time glued to television screens, their
smartphones and rooted to their classroom desks. Teachers and
educational professionals emphasize that young people should do sport and understand
that fitness is important to be healthy and to do well at school, but don’t
always have the time or know-how to engage students with the benefits of
sports.
Here are a few ways you can help encourage more sports participation in
your school.
1. Celebrate fitness with festivals
Give
your students a chance to celebrate something, even if it is physical
activity. The International Day of Sport for Development and
Peace initiative by the United Nations is just one day where schools can
invite students’ families and other community members to participate in
developing before-and after-school programmes. Sports festivals are a great
platform for parents and students to come together and brainstorm additional
events and ideas for the festival. From triathlons, hula-hooping, sack races or
egg and spoon races, the whole community can get involved in a sport.
2. Choose the right coaches
A
coach is a role model for the children who should focus on sport ability,
educational, psychological and social aspects of sports. A coach builds a
successful sport-in-school relationship. Your coaches need to be supporting
your students and helping them improve, not criticizing them or treating them
poorly. A culture of intimidation can lead to students not participating in sports.
So, one of the goals for a coach is to help build up each student, through the
power of sports.
3. Develop & Follow a Sports
Curriculum
Like
all other subjects include a syllabus, a school should have a customized /
tailored syllabus for sports as well depending on their resources. Every age
group has to be attended differently depending on their ability and
characteristics. Example, 6-8 age group is an age group where the children are
at a fragile growth period and have limited concentration and attention. They
love to imitate and it is more about having fun at this age via sports. We
often observe that the disengagement rate in sports in a school takes place
around the age of 10-12 when the level of sport starts being competitive. The
sports curriculum should be developed as such so that the barriers for
disengagement should be tackled well.
4. Let students take charge through Sports
Clubs
Student
can build their own programs from scratch and transform the way they look at
fitness with groups and activities that interest them. Sports clubs allow
students to take on accountability and responsibility, giving them a sense of fulfilment,
while developing competencies that can be applied within the school and beyond.
Sports clubs also help young adults build lasting friendships and make
them feel part of a wider community. Our own programme Youth Sports Leadership
works by training teachers and coaches in coaching and mentoring skills that
help them enable 15-16-year-old students to become ‘young sports leaders’. These
students then go on to further develop their leadership skills
by organizing sports festivals in their cities and communities and
train 11-12-year-olds to build their own leadership skills to make sport
sustainable in their schools.
5. Start from the Grassroots
Grassroots
sports in itself is a school of life which focuses on fun and learning through
sports, play is the best means of learning. Grassroots sports is more about
providing a free expression which is for all and develops aspects of psychological
growth. Introduction of sports at this age provides a structure for the growth,
interest and participation of sports in a child. A school should introduce
simple, exciting and rewarding activities / games at this very early age.