Nataliya Mihailova

Will refers to the key issues of personal development that determine the independence and responsibility of preschoolers for their future success. Today, physical training is aimed primarily at protecting and strengthening the health of children, increasing the body's protective forces, generation of an active interest in motor skills, abilities, volitional and physical qualities (speed, agility, litheness, and endurance), the formation of a health culture. The relevance of the topic is caused by the need for psychologists, teachers, and parents in the improvement of already existing approaches of psychological and pedagogical influence on the forming personality of a senior preschool child with the aim of developing autonomy, initiative, dedication, determination, and discipline. The need to develop new, rationally constructed and effective pedagogical technologies is obvious. The aim of this work is to study the methods and techniques of organizing senior preschoolers’ game activity in order to form their volitional qualities. The will is what makes a person capable of setting himself complex goals, achieving them, overcoming external and internal obstacles. A human is not born with a strong will, it is developed throughout life. The subjects of our work are the methods and techniques of organizing gaming activity in the classroom for the physical training of preschoolers in order to form volitional qualities. Methods of work include theoretical analysis of psychological and methodological literature; observation, experiment, conversation; method of quantitative and qualitative data processing. The study of the volitional sphere of senior preschool age children is attractive both in theoretical and in practical terms. There is an intensive formation of the volitional sphere at this age, which consists in the ability to obey the rules and requirements. Formation of volitional qualities in senior preschoolers leads to the development of the self-regulation ability. The theoretical significance of the work lies in the fact that its results expand the understanding of the relationship between physical and volitional upbringing of senior preschool age children. The possibility of volitional qualities effective formation under the influence of purposeful pedagogical influences in the process of physical activity is proved. The practical significance of the work: the authors developed practical recommendations for selection and use of physical exercises to assess the level of independence and initiative development, to cultivate these qualities of the will through the use of a set of physical exercises, mainly aimed at the formation of dedication, determination, discipline. The results of the work for the formation of volitional qualities in older preschoolers during ascertaining experiment showed that mostly prevailed children with low-57%, average – 34% and high level – only 9%. The work does not end there. For the effective formation of volitional qualities we implement specially created pedagogical conditions which will help to increase the level of volitional qualities formation in older preschoolers. After studying the scientific literature, we come to the conclusion that different types of games in physical training influence on the formation of independence in children, discipline, determination, initiative. They bring up the desire to bring the work started to the end, to cultivate the ability to continue work, even if you do not want to do it or if there is more interesting activity. In other words, all types of games are aimed at the formation of the volitional qualities of the individual. Observation of the subjects showed that children became more willing to engage in physical training. This once again confirms the effectiveness of active, sports games in the development of interest in physical training.