Physical education is a special pedagogical process aimed at improving the health of a student, his physical development, physical fitness, mastering a set of motor skills, achieving results in a chosen sport, preparing for highly productive work and military service.
A large role in the system of educational influences belongs to various forms of physical education in the university, one of which is sports and mass and physical education and health work. The purpose of sports and mass and physical education and health work is to attract students to additional physical exercise classes, to prepare harmoniously developed highly qualified specialists.
Educational work at the Department of Physical Education for Technical Specialties is an integral part of the national program for the formation of the general and professional culture of a modern specialist. As an academic discipline, mandatory for all specialties, it ensures specialized physical readiness, education of the conscious need for a healthy lifestyle, is one of the means of forming a comprehensively developed personality, a factor in strengthening health, optimization and psychophysical state of students in the process of professional training. Physical education is carried out in various forms that are interconnected, complementing each other, and represents a single process of educating students.
Currently, the sports complex No. 14 "Burevestnik" of the university is one of the largest sports facilities in the city of Shymkent, where not only the educational process is carried out, but also students have the opportunity to engage in the formation of a healthy lifestyle.
The complex includes a hall with an area of 972 sq. m. One table tennis hall - 22 sq. m., a gym - 70.2 sq. m., a boxing hall - 160.65 sq. mm., a wrestling hall - 185 sq. m., a club for toguz-kumalak and chess - 15 sq. m. An open football field, with running tracks, jumping pits). Changing rooms for boys and girls, showers, etc.
A feature of the department's work is the combination of educational classes in sports and mass and physical education and health work. Classes are held for national teams, students living in dormitories, health groups and the university faculty. Formation of a healthy lifestyle for student youth is a complex and year-round process.
Educational work at the Department of Physical Education and Sports is carried out in accordance with the strategic plan of the university. The goal of education should be considered the comprehensive development of the personality of a future specialist with higher professional education, possessing high culture, intelligence, social activity, and the qualities of a patriotic citizen.
The main task in educational work with students should be considered the creation of conditions for the disclosure and development of creative abilities, civic self-determination and self-realization, harmonization of students' needs for intellectual, moral, cultural and physical development.
The following educational tasks are the most relevant:
- formation of high moral culture, active civic position, patriotic consciousness, legal and political culture in students;
- development of personal qualities necessary for effective professional activity;
- preservation and enhancement of historical and cultural traditions of the University, continuity in the education of student youth;
- strengthening and improvement of physical condition, desire for a healthy lifestyle, education of an intolerant attitude towards smoking, drugs, alcoholism, antisocial behavior.
According to the long-term plan of the department, teachers hold thematic "Information Days", as well as information and educational hours with discussion of issues of economic, political and cultural life of the country and abroad.
Attention is paid to the formation of a healthy lifestyle and safe life, education of a careful and conscious attitude towards health in students.
The teachers of the department by personal example contribute to the formation of healthy lifestyle stereotypes in young people. The formation of a healthy lifestyle culture in students is directly related to their professional education. Thus, one of the components of a healthy lifestyle is systematic physical education and sports. A healthy lifestyle of students at the Department of Physical Education and Sports is carried out during class time during physical education classes and outside of class time by holding sports and sports-mass events at the university, participation in district, city and republican events. The implementation of all the activities of the department allows solving the educational and educational tasks facing it, developing and improving physical education, health and sports-mass work at the university.