This study aimed to clarify elementary school teachers’ confidence in teaching basketball classes according to the curriculum guidelines and the difficulties they face, and to help develop future teacher training and class programs.
We used Google Forms to conduct a questionnaire survey with teachers who have experience teaching basketball lessons to fifth- and sixth-grade students. Out of the 163 responses received, there were 141 final analysis targets, after excluding those with incomplete answers.
The results revealed the following:
1) Overall, many teachers were not confident in teaching “dribbling,” “defense,” “movement (passing),” “modify (modified games),” “shooting,” and “movement (scoring).”
2) Significant differences in ” modify (modified games),” “catch,” “defense,” “rules,” and “tell” were observed in the different teaching experiences.
3) Teachers who had no experience in either competition or teaching had particularly low confidence in “dribbling” and “defense.”
4) In the free descriptions of “difficulties and worries in teaching basketball,” a high percentage of the comments were related to individual skills. In addition, there were some comments about the “place,” such as the lack of basketball goals.
From the above, it was determined that it is necessary to conduct training for teachers and develop class programs for games with ingenious rules that can improve individual skills in dribbling, catching, and defending, and that can be played with fewer basketball goals using these skills.
