El cuento motor como estrategia didáctica para desarrollar psicomotricidad gruesa en niños de 3 a 5 años

Abstract

This research work is aimed to design a didactic sequence grounded on the application of motor stories in order to develop gross motor skills in children between 3 to 5 years of age. Thus, theory relevant to the importance of developing motor skills and motor story as an innovative and creative strategy that fosters active learning in infants is presented. To this end, a descriptiveexploratory qualitative methodological approach was used, hence, as a research tool, 10 semistructured surveys were applied to early-childhood education teachers from public and private schools in the city of Cuenca, Ecuador, in order to know the strategies that are applied to develop gross motor skills -crucial information for the construction of the didactic sequence. The conclusions of the study show that there is a lack of knowledge regarding the motor story as a didactic strategy to work on motor skills. Consequently, designing a didactic sequence constitutes an appealing, creative and different way to strengthen this area because it has an interdisciplinary character. Finally, it is proposed a template to design activities aimed to develop skills for the body expression and motor skills scopes in the Early Childhood Education Curriculum (2014), as well as to enhance gross motor skills elements based on the application of motor stories giving two concrete examples for their implementation with children from 3 to 4 and from 4 to 5 years of age, taking into consideration their needs and interests.