A STUDY ABOUT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF HEALTH, YOGA AND SPORTS RELATED ACTIVITIES ON B.ED. TEACHER –TRAINEES

“Your body hears everything that, your mind says!” this quote reflects the importance of our mind and body co-relation. The great Philosopher, Aristotle said that, the Sound mind… is in our Sound body...! The focus or objectives of this study is on the development of knowledge, understanding, skills and attitude among the B.Ed. Students about the importance of Health, Yoga and Sports in our life. As well as, a today’s Teacher- trainees are tomorrows nation builders... They should know very well about the need, importance, types, core characteristics, differences between health, sports and yoga activities. Teacher -trainees should know about how to do or conduct these activities as a teacher in the schools and in their own life also. The Objectives of this research as mentioned above, Researcher has used Experimental Research Method to check the effectiveness of these activities included in the SPPU B.Ed. Syllabus under the course code No. 112 i.e. Health & Yoga. The Randomized -lottery Sampling method was chosen by the researcher and Single Group – Pre & Post Test - Research design was used for this Research. The Teacher training colleges affiliated under the Savitribai Phule Pune University are the population of this research and the 50 students of the one teacher training college were the Sample of this study. For data collection researcher has used a questionnaire for it as a Pre and Post Test. The mean, average, median, Standard- Deviation, Co-relation and the ‘t’- Test was used to analyse the collected data by researcher. The Findings and the conclusion are mentioned at the end of this research paper, and it shows that, the implementation of Health, yoga & sports related activities made progress and a positive effects among the B.Ed. Teacher –trainees achievements.