Course Details

1. Define and illustrate terms such as movement, kinesiology, physical activity, and obesity and explain the significance of physical activity for a better quality of life.
2. Recognize the importance of planning for an effective teaching of a movement program with music, identifying the multiple role of the teacher during students’ practice.
3. Use the available time efficiently, providing students with multiple opportunities to practice in a safe environment.
4. Organize physical activity programs that help the pregnant woman keep her body weight low, keep her mood positive, make the fetus experience a sense of safety and relief, and prepare her for delivery.
5. Describe the benefits of physical activity in the elderly, as a result of systematic involvement with exercise, and outline activities that are not allowed for this group of people.
6. Explain the deformities of the spine and the causes of them, and employ preventive and healing methods to people dealing with that problem.

Terminology – Students’ needs for movement: Movement, kinesiology, physical activity, obesity, exercise program. Movement in children’s lives. 

Planning and methodology of teaching: Factors affecting planning, periods of planning, teacher’s role. Methodology of teaching movement programs with music.   

Movement and pregnancy: The significance of movement during pregnancy. Movement programs for pregnant women. Activities to select and activities to avoid. 

Movement in the elderly: The benefits of regular physical activity in the elderly. Movement programs and considerations for exercise in the elderly.  

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