Critical Cues Help First-Grade Students

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Critical Cues Help First-Grade Student: Achievement in Handstands and Forward Rolls
Cues Improve Learning Cognitive concerns are important for early stages of learning for the author of the article, “Critical Cues Help First-Grade Students Achievement in Handstands and Forward Rolls” which research showed that critical cues are necessary to teach motor skills to young students. According to learning theorist, “Purport the early stages of learning motor skills are dominated by cognitive concerns.” In this article, two studies were conducted to evaluate the efficiency of teaching first grade students how to execute a handstand and forward rolls. The two studies were early attempts to decide the significance of critical cues in learning physical education pedagogy. …show more content…
Thus critical cues are to be used to help students remember each direction to perform the handstand. The author, believes to create the most successful critical cue can be a challenged. The first of the two studies was to discover if the cue “shoulders over your knuckles” would help first grade students to complete a handstand. The author explains, many methods were used, for example, one treatment group received the cue “shoulders over knuckles” and the other group did not. Also, the author explains how allowing students participate in a game, to observe if students had actually learned how to perform a complete handstand. Finally, after study was done, the author infer that critical cues hypothesis supported the theory that learning a motor skill such as a handstand are vital to cognitive stage learners because the students who were instructed critical cues scored