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Taking into account individual characteristics is an important factor in increasing the effectiveness of teaching the discipline "Physical Culture". The relevance of this research lies in improving the methodology of teaching swimming to students in the aspect of considering differences in the development of motor abilities and morphological characteristics of students. Previous studies have identified the criteria for forming and the characteristics of typological groups for teaching swimming to students.
Research purpose: to evaluate the effectiveness of a methodology for teaching swimming to students based on their morphological and motor characteristics.
Research methods: analysis of scientific and methodological literature, pedagogical testing, anthropometric methods, expert evaluation, pedagogical experiment, mathematical and statistical methods.
Research results and their discussion. The structure of the methodology for teaching swimming to students based on their morphological and motor characteristics contains four sequential stages. At the preparatory stage, typological groups were formed from students who showed low scores in swimming exercises at the end of the initial learning stage. At the initial learning stage, pedagogical influence is aimed at developing motor abilities in the water. An innovative technical device, the "support paddle," was used in teaching swimming. At the in-depth learning stage, instruction in swimming techniques was conducted depending on the students' typological groups. At the consolidation and improvement stage, training is aimed at increasing the variability of swimming technique and correcting morphological characteristics. The experimental group achieved statistically significantly higher results in: exercises indicative of motor abilities in the water; swimming technique; 50-meter swimming distance; endurance tests.
Conclusion. The results of the conducted experiment confirmed the effectiveness and pedagogical appropriateness of considering motor and morphological characteristics in teaching swimming to students.
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