Educational Approaches Designed to Improve Active Lifestyle in Teenagers

The adults’ active lifestyle has its origins in the positive attitudes developed during their childhood and adolescence. To design various influences in this sense, Physical Education teachers have to pay attention to different methods and means classified as non-specific in relation to their specialty. This paper aims at checking the effectiveness of some educational approaches recommended to be used by Physical Education teachers, so that they can exert significant influences on the pupils’ attitude system. For this purpose, we chose the 11th grade pupils from two classes in a high school from Câmpina.As research methods, we used the experiment, the inquiry and the observation. The independent variables were represented by the extracurricular sports programs. The influence of these variables was evaluated through the theoretical knowledge pupils had acquired by the end of the school year and through their attitudes towards the practice of physical exercise. The results of our study indicate significant changes in the level of the variables investigated. The conclusions emphasize the specificity of instructional design and also formulate some methodical indications that can contribute to a better integration of the respective didactic means into Physical Education activities.