Adapting Didactic Game in Swimming Teaching at an Early Age

AbstractStarting from the definition of the didactic game, one can observe how this harmoniously combines the instructive and educational aspect of children teaching with its fun part. From this perspective, the incidence of this type of game in swimming teaching at an early age is beneficial, especially because of the involvement in the teaching process of the physiological resources of children as well as the pedagogical ones of the teachers/trainers, focused on the transformation of the extrinsic motivations of both the parts involved in the teaching/learning process into intrinsic ones. Here arises a favorable situation in which the quality, the efficiency and the learning speed of swimming will know a notable increase. Thus, children who are encouraged to learn to swim through methods in which games and racing prevail, in association with the specific tasks of the didactical game, learn to swim in a pleasant manner, avoiding monotony and stereotyping. Trainers/teachers who are appreciated by children and by the other members of the staff, who are respected by colleagues and children, who use their experience in a constructive manner and take into account the particularities of each child will obtain notable results in the initiation activity, achieving faster and better results than expected

ASPECTS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL RESOURCES IN SWIMMING AT AN EARLY AGE THROUGH SURVEYS

The use of the survey, as a special category of investigation, on a specific professional category very well defined in the specialty of the activity, is extremely beneficial to improve the efficiency of swimming training at early age. Children's psychological resources, which some teachers marginalize, out of ignorance or out of pragmatism, can be very important in the teaching - learning process, the outcomes of children who are encouraged to reveal and develop their skills and abilities through these resources are spectacular. Therefore the survey reveals the concern of swimming trainers to train children in early childhood and to transform the extrinsic motivations into intrinsic ones, with obviously superior results at the level of assimilation of knowledge and skills by the children

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SWIMMING PERFORMANCE AT ADULT AGE THROUGH MASTERS COMPETITIONS

Through consistent training, swimmers at adult age can obtain outstandind results in masters swimming movement, results that can be comparable to the activity of high performance swimmers. With a good effort dosing and an efficient programming of their effort, their competional results are improving constantly, and competitors can obtain medals in continental and world competitions. In addition to these results, one can speak of o movement that promotes health at any age, because of the benefits of swimming on human body