Active class model: students’ motivation of physical activities and experience of physical education classes

Object of the investigation. 12–13 year old students’ motivation of physical activities and experience of physical education classes. Problem of the investigation. The possibilities of students’ movement are changing intensely in nowadays rapidly changing society. Scientists accent that in the world of expeditiously developing information and communication technologies the mode of students’ living can be called as a passive rather than active one. More and more often students are spending their leisure time passively: they are spending much time at the television or computer and less time is being spent outside, as a result, they move and exercise less (Kardelis et al., 2011). The results of the investigation that was fulfilled by scientists prove that the majority of Lithuanian students are not physically active enough. They hardly understand the benefit of physical activity on human’s body. At about 20% Lithuanian boys and 40% girls are insufficiently physically active and the above mentioned indices are constantly growing each year (Mickevičienė et al., 2006). Aim of the investigation. The aim of the investigation is to determine lifestyle links with physical activeness of 12–13 year old students investigating their motivation of physical activities and experience of common and modelled physical education. Tasks of the investigation. 1. Set of Kaunas 12-13 year-old students to physical activity, the opinion of the physical education teacher and ongoing experiences. 2. To establish students’ experience during ordinary and modelled physical education classes; 3. To compare the assessments of the students from experimental and control forms before and after the experiment; 4. To ascertain factors influencing on students’ motivation of physical activities; Conclusions 1. Analyzing the Kaunas. students' exposure to physical activity, the opinion of the physical education teacher and ongoing experiences during physical education classes have found that: a. 52.6 percent. students' physical activity and sports 2-3 days a week, 60.7 per cent. sports students 4-6 hours per week, most of the subjects of their physical activity and physical fitness by 8-10 points; leisure love picnicking and travel, as well as cycling or swimming practice; most of the students tested at weekends love to spend time with friends, playing sports or being in nature; b. their physical education teacher-time as a teacher's manual; physical education lessons or tight spending on the disease; in the classroom usually playing square, volleyball and engaged in athletics; in the classroom to experience the joy lessons they like to feel physically good, fun activity. c. physical education classes and physical activity during leisure time subjects experiencing the joy they like, feel pleasure, fun activity; 2. It is established that experience of the students from an experimental form with modelled physical education classes and the students from a control form with ordinary physical education classes was very similar. The students from the experimental form assessed the following experience in highest marks: they liked it, they feel physically well, activities do not suppress them, it is funny and it takes pleasure. The students from the control form assessed the following experience in highest marks: they feel physically well, it is funny, they do not feel nervous, they are engaged and activities do not suppress them. The lowest marks were given for the experiences: activities do not inspire and stimulate them. 3. It is established that the assessment of students from the experimental and control forms experience before the experiment and after it was similar. After the experiment the assessments of experimental form students were 0,5 – 0,8 marks higher than of the control form. 4. The results of the investigation show that mostly influencing factors of 12–13 year old students from both experimental and control forms are: wish to be healthy, wish to have beautiful appearance, wish to find new friends and wish to cooperate with other people