Keyword: «and pedagogical conditions»

The article is devoted to the search for optimal means, methods, and conditions for forming students' readiness for physical and sports self-improvement. It reveals the possibilities of pedagogical design of processes of physical self-education, self-upbringing, and self-development, which are the basis for physical and sports self-improvement. We consider readiness for this type of activity as a state of the subject that ensures the productivity of voluntary physical and sports activities aimed at transforming one's physical and spiritual self. It has been determined that the main means of forming students' readiness for physical education and sports self-improvement is independent work, which is organized on the basis of students' mastery of the system of searching for and mastering physical education and sports knowledge, their ability to design the process of physical education self-improvement, acquire methodological and practical motor skills, develop psychophysical conditions, and enrich their subjective experience of independent physical education and sports activities. In the course of the study, it was established. that the use of the project method increases the effectiveness of the formation of students' readiness for physical education self-improvement, provided that the following pedagogical conditions are met: the organization of joint (teacher-student; student-student) project-research activities based on cooperation; the provision of students with the right to choose research project topics; the actualization of personal meanings and significant motives for physical education and sports activities; the integration of academic and extracurricular work on physical education for students; and the preparation of teachers for cooperation.