Characteristics of and inspirations from US Springfield College and its physical education teaching
By participating in a semester of physical education teaching practice in Springfield College in the United States in the winter of 2006,the author summarized the characteristics of Springfield College distinctive in its physical education teaching,and sorted out the following teaching characteristics of Springfield College:Its teach-ing objectives are oriented for the creation of student's learning ability,being highly operational;in its teaching process,it is advocated to discuss learning experiences and to base teaching group as a unit,and more attention is paid to enhancing student's ability to analyze and solve problems than to evaluating the teaching process. There are differences in physical education between institutes of higher learning in China and the United States in terms of development scale,guiding ideology and independent education management.