1985 Volume 4 Issue 2 Pages 15-29
This is a case study in mastering of the horizontal bar exercise finely achieved by the most unskilled female students of the elementary school teacher's course in the Faculty of Education, Kanazawa University.
Through this study, we invented a unique method of graded teaching which was quite different from the old methods in which we made the students imitate the skilled fellows or simply helped them to practise themselves.
Our purpose is not only to prevent each student from dropping behind the rest of the class by means of enabling her to master the skill of horizontal bar, but also to realize the physical educational value of that exercise through improving the teaching efficiency.
We should notice that the most unskilled students in the horizontal bar training are several times as many as those in other exercises. To our surprise, almost half of the students in the junior high schools have no experience of the horizontal bar exercise during their school days, while this exercise is included a little in the curriculum of the elementary school.
In view of such a poor situation in teaching of horizontal bar exercise in the schools of our country, invention of this sort of the graded teaching method might have a great significance in the physical educational field.
