Development of a school-based curriculum for elementary schools in campus football activities - based on the concept of US SPARK curriculum.
Aiming at the trend of development of turning campus football activities into a curriculum in China nowadays,the author analyzed and learnt from the concept of US SPARK curriculum,and probed into the possibility to develop a school-based football curriculum for elementary schools.The development of a school-based football curriculum for elementary schools should follow the principle to make the curriculum a whole,educational,student-oriented and interesting; curriculum development elements should show as building a curriculum structure that combines with sports classes,sports activity classes and extracurricular sports activities,a two-stage curriculum outline that is composed of curriculum outline concept,teaching guidance outline and competition guidance outline as planned,embody in the curriculum textbook compilation principle to make the curriculum interesting,practical and expandable,and adopt the way of organization of curriculum contents which are transformed into curriculum contents suitable for textbook and teaching.The author put forward the following strategies for curriculum development: develop the curriculum based on the concept of the SPARK curriculum and the spirit of the Curriculum Standard; fuse the curriculum with other disciplinary knowledge; combine the curriculum with extracurricular sports activities; train curriculum developers and implementers.