Importance of learning in children of team play - Positive values of sport
Sport is a value in itself because children do not want to practice it to lose weight or have a body with muscles. When adults leave the children of two or three children free, for example, in a square or on a court, the natural behavior in them is to play.
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Sport itself conveys many values, but also educates children in a philosophy of life and healthy lifestyle habits. Not only this, but it also becomes the adolescent stage, in a certain way an isolator that avoids some type of inappropriate and harmful behavior.
Role of adults in instilling the positive values of sport
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Adults should instill sport as part of a child's life. And this for what?, So that the child can develop fully, because he is being educated in a series of values that are necessary for life.
Educate them in sports and encourage them to exercise, in some way takes children to a type of comprehensive education.
It is important to emphasize that children are not punished with sports. Even when children do not do their homework or do not pass the exams, the pace must be maintained, since sport is a healthy thing.
Ways children can be punished:
❖ With not seeing so much television.
❖ With not playing video games.
Sport and the way it facilitates the acquisition of values
Sport facilitates values, almost all of them in fact at the same time and it is also a way of learning those values or educating oneself in them naturally, that is, by playing.
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Everything that is learned by playing is understood, preserved and reproduced better. The children associate that to achieve a result in the sport they must work hard, make the best effort and compete.
Values that are learned with sport
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❖ Communication and social skills.
The child enters a group, be it group or individual sport, in which he must communicate, he must expose, speak and encourage the companions.
❖The empathy.
This value makes us more human, because it is the ability to understand the other's emotions.
❖ It makes people generous.
The child is educated from an early age to prioritize the group's objective, above the individual objective.
❖ The order and respect.
There are codes of conduct and discipline there, where children learn when they should be present at a match and at any other event.
❖ Give help and support.
Always animated, motivated to continue and it is a value of union that transmits gratifying sensations.
❖ Sense of belonging.
It is the feeling of being part of something, since everyone has the same feeling.
❖ The responsability.
All children in sports become responsible people, because they are asked to make an effort, to do physical work, although sometimes they do not want to do it, but they do it because they must be responsible and comply.
❖ Constancy and perseverance.
To improve in the sport you need to train, and it is something that you have to learn.
❖ Humility.
It should always be emphasized that the results obtained individually and in groups are the results of teamwork. Understanding that the success that is seen as their own, is that of everyone.
The values acquired through sport and its influence on children's school performance
The values that are learned in sports are values for life. Everything learned in the game is transferable, both in the game and the school environment and vice versa.
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When children begin to understand that to achieve a specific goal in the game, they must:
❖ Give a beneficial performance.
❖ Give an effort.
This makes, that it manages to serve in studies, but also children who combine physical activity, sports and studies learn to have:
❖ Have a routine.
❖ Prioritize.
❖ Time management.
The practice of sports, favors the cognitive, helps to think more clearly, sports relax you, dreams are repaired, you can rest well, that is, that favors in all aspects.
Sport as a means to get out of the behaviors that provoke fear and anxiety
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When leaving an environment in which children feel comfortable, it is often an even more favorable change, because in sports, whenever the child likes and enjoys it, he wants to improve and surpass himself. The fact that the child wants to improve himself every time he has to practice implies abandoning the previous routine and the comfortable zone that he usually has.
It involves exposing oneself to something new, to having to invest an effort, to improve things.
How do we encourage children to continue in sports?
❖ We must decriminalize failure and error.
❖ Teach that you should assess the performance and effort over the result.
❖ Correct constructively.
❖ Encourage the child to have autonomy.
❖ Teach him to take away the courage that is given to fear, so that he understands that fear can not be with him and that it is much stronger.
❖ You must always speak positively to encourage.
❖ Always reinforce everything the child does based on their effort.
Activity so that children lose their fear and become active in any sport always in a team learning the positive values
The blackboard of the fears: It is about hanging a blackboard where each children should write their fears, what they fear in the game, and why.
Example:
❖ Fear of error.
❖ Fear of being criticized.
❖ Fear that people will look at me and speak ill of me.
This will result in accepting advice and putting aside those fears that lead nowhere, as everyone should be encouraged to win as a team.
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