Development of Flipped Classroom Teaching Program on Children’s Basic Gymnastics in Higher Vocation College

Abstract

Background and Aim: The research aims to design the flipped classroom teaching of children's basic gymnastics in Chinese higher vocational colleges, compare children’s basic gymnastics skills between using a flipped classroom teaching program and a traditional teaching program, and then promote the gymnastics teaching in Chinese higher vocational colleges. Materials and Methods: The sample of this research was 60 students from two natural classes of “Children's Basic Gymnastics” in the 2023 academic year of Dongguan Vocational and Technical College. 60 students which was divided into an experimental group and a control group. The experimental group was using the flipped classroom teaching program, the control group was using the traditional teaching program. A questionnaire survey method and an In-depth interview method were conducted to develop the teaching content of children's basic gymnastics course. The experimental period was 8 weeks, including 24 theory classes and 26 practice classes. Using mean, standard deviation, and independent sample T-test to analyze the data. Result: The result shows that the total performance and skill performance of the experimental group and the control group are significantly different, and the experimental group is better than the control group. However, there is no significant difference in the physical quality of the two groups. Conclusion: In the teaching of children's basic gymnastics in higher vocational colleges, the effect of the flipped classroom teaching program is better than the traditional teaching program, which has a significant effect on the children's basic gymnastics learning performance of students.