Professional development of physical education teachers for health promotion in school

Abstract

The problem of improving the professional development physical education teachers in the health promotion of the schoolchildren is certain by a number of regulatory and legal acts of Ukraine in sphere of education. The aim of the study was to analyze the theoretical and methodological foundations of profes-sional development for teachers of physical education as health promoters. The study was conducted by analyzing the literature, and conducting questioning among active teachers of physical culture (20 pers.) and students of Lviv State University of Physical Education as future teachers (111 pers.). In our research we have established the contradiction between the objective needs of society in specialists that can professionally engage in health promotion and low valeological basic education as a significant component of training. Analysis of the questioning showed relatively low levels of self-commitment to health promotion for school children.