D. M. Youssef Al -Amin
School sport is one of the most prominent educational activities practiced by students within educational institutions, as it plays a pivotal role in developing physical and mental capabilities for male and female students, and enhances their motor and mental skills, along with its positive impact on raising the level of academic achievement. Sports activities vary between individual sports such as swimming, gymnastics, athletics, and group other such as football, basketball, ball, and ball. The plane, in line with students ’tendencies and abilities, as well as according to the capabilities available in schools. However, football remains the popular game closest to the hearts of the majority, given the simplicity of its laws and the ease of its tools.
Despite the supposed multiple benefits of sports activities, a fundamental question arises: Do most students realize these benefits? Do they invest the school sports share to develop their life skills? Or is laziness mostly over activity? Or that the smartphone blocks the void at the time of sports classes?
In this context, with the approaching start of the new academic year next September, the preparation for the launch of a experimental sports awareness program began in the Kingdom of Bahrain, concerned with answering these questions. The program targets school students, and communication with educational authorities will be officially communicated as soon as the study begins to contribute to its success.
The program is based on integrating “life skills” into the general culture of physical education, within an interactive sports and interactive activity in modern methods of training and its duration is only one hour. Football has been chosen as a major model for this program, due to its ability to motivate students of all ages to interact, in addition to its active role in developing individual and social skills, in a way that excels in its simplicity over other group games such as basketball or plane.
The program includes field visits to schools, during which short awareness activities are implemented to introduce students to life skills and their importance in academic and practical success. The program also includes sports and mental competitions that depend on rapid thinking and speed of intuition, which creates an interesting interactive environment that helps to discover and develop the underlying capabilities of students.
This program is also accompanied by a preliminary field survey to measure the extent of students’ prior knowledge of these skills, and to evaluate their interaction with the experience, in a move aimed at enhancing the philosophy of “discovery and learning through play”, as a modern educational approach linking physical activity and practical learning based on application. It is worth noting that this program is an intellectual and preparatory fruit, where I have composed the series “Learning Success from Football” 25 years ago, 25 years ago, 25 years ago After retirement, I started in my volunteer career in the field of training for youth and administrative consulting, especially in developing project management skills, as I trained hundreds of young engineers in the Bahraini Engineers Association.
It formed a specialized team to support it in the implementation of the experimental and research program during school visits, and I hope to obtain the approval of private schools to participate in this initiative during sports classes or periods of school void. I also intend to invite universities to encourage their students to volunteer engagement in this educational experience, in a way that benefits their life and professional skills, especially in the areas of the skill of project management that can be linked to applied mathematical concepts that benefit them in their practical future after graduation.
