Time: 27,02, 2018 -Dr. Steve Sanders (sanders@usf.edu)The webinar started with the professor introducing himself, then he presented slides, he focused on teaching students , toddlers or our kids the loco motor skills . These skills are: run, walk, jump, hop, leap. He defined every term, for example he defined walk as :” The walk is a transfer of weight from one foot to the other. Usually the heel touches first”, then he gave the order of learning them, so he said that babies learn first how to walk then they move towards running and other skills.
Afterwards Dr. Steve talked about uneven loco motor skills which are : skip, gallop and slide, he defined every term.
He moved to another part: The Skill of Travelling in The National Standards for Physical Activity (NASPE 2004), he also focused on the act of traveling, which is when the baby moves from one spot to another, he also mentioned the best positions for these skills to develop in babies he said that we should avoid keeping babies laying for long times on their backs. Furthermore, kids who walk earlier have a wider list of vocabulary than the one who crowls.
He added a slide: Traveling or loco motor skill: walking, running, marching, galloping, jumping and landing, skipping , chasing, fleeing and dodging.
The most important points that I learned were making kids aware of their bodies, as teachers and parents we should focus on teaching them the names of their body parts, and it is our duty to teach and train students on using the loco motor skills and that helps them on staying safe which is our main goal that we want our students to transfer to the rest of their lives. Another interesting part was the ways of practicing loco motor skills with our kids and students, we could use a drum or any other instrument to make a beat then the students will follow and learn. There a way which is related to tagging and as the Dr. says it’s very beneficial to be used with kids.
It is important to shed light on the loco-motor skills for the young children, as a source to gain learning instead of only moving muscles and playing. Teachers are responsible greatly for spreading this idea.
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