Teaching basketball at the second level of primary schools.

This thesis is focused on the issues of teaching basketball at the second level of primary schools, both in terms of content, organisation of teaching, as well as in the terms of popularity, preferences and attitudes of students and teachers. The main aim of the study was to map the current state of teaching basketball in Czech primary schools and to compare the effectiveness of two teaching approaches - the practice model and the free play model - through skill testing in combination with direct instruction in Physical Education (PE) classes. Part of the thesis was to create a personal design of teaching models with a collection of excercises that can serve as inspiration for teachers and enrich PE lessons not only at the second level of primary schools. The practical part of the research combined quantitative and qualitative methods. A total of 109 PE teacher (71 females and 38 males, M = 38,6 years) and 143 lower secondary students (71 girls and 72 boys; M = 13,2 years) participated in the questionnaire survey. The experimental part was conducted at two Prague primary schools and included 44 eighth- grade students divided into a experimental (Group E; n = 22; M = 14 years) and a control group (Group C; n = 22; M = 13,73 years). Group E received a six-week intervention using a structured practice...