Action Research: Application of Movement Analysis Model for Second Grade Students

[[abstract]]This action research applied the movement analysis model on physical education teaching of second grade students in an elementary school. The purpose was to explore the progress of movement analysis model implementation, the acceptance of students toward the movement analysis model teaching, and the construction of student’s movement concept after the implementation. The movement analysis model was a teaching model mainly for elementary school children. The teacher offered the learning context and guided with the problem solving approach, in order to assist the children to explore the fundamental body movement, and improve the cognition toward the awareness and concept of body, space, direction and time. The participants of this research were 26 second grade students (13 boys & 13 girls). The activities of physical education classes were designed using the movement analysis model. The learning content consisted of the floor exercise, balance beam, hula hoop and others. Data were collected by interview, observation, worksheet, teaching diary, and survey on acceptance level. Content analysis was used to analyze the qualitative data. The results of this study were as follows: (1) The level of acceptance by students toward physical education classes using the movement analysis model was high. (2) The teaching of movement analysis model facilitated the construction of student’s concept on body movements. (3) The process of this action research could improved the teacher’s teaching abilities and caused her think and introspect. The results of this research could offer the teacher information and reference on designing movement analysis model in PE lesson.