Keyword: «technologies for motivation development»

The relevance of the study is determined by the importance of fostering children's motivation to sport starting from preschool age, since physical education from a young age should be comprehensive and consistent. The table tennis Olympic Reserve sports school is one of the ways to form and develop the necessary combination of skills and motor abilities of a child. The purpose of the study is to find out the level of children's motivation to table tennis training in the Olympic Reserve sports school. To achieve the aim of the study, a systemic activity-oriented approach, theoretical methods (summarizing scientific and methodological studies, analyzing scientific literature on the topic), and empirical methods (questionnaire and analysis of its results) were used. The experimental work involved 32 students of the State Budgetary Institution of Additional Education of the City of Moscow, the Olympic Reserve Sports School "Moscow City Physical Education and Sports Association" of the Moscow Department of Sports, on the basis of which the study was conducted. In the practical part of the work, we identified the following successive stages: 1) compiling a questionnaire with the questions and answer options; 2) sending out the questionnaire personally to current athletes of the table tennis Olympic Reserve sports school; 3) analyzing the research results and formulating conclusions on the level of motivation of those going in for table tennis at Moscow City Physical Education and Sports Association. In addition, our study included diagnosing the level of motivation of students of different ages to enroll in a table tennis sports school, as well as studying the factors influencing the motivation of those involved. The theoretical significance of the study and its novelty consist in: 1) analysis of motivation factors development for training in the table tennis Olympic Reserve sports school; 2) finding out the difference between the motivational sphere, motivation itself and motives of activity, and their hierarchy; 3) study of motivation in the context of recruitment of people to the sports school for this sport; 4) diagnostics of changes in the level of motivation of those involved in training. The practical significance of the work consists in working out a number of technologies for development of motivation for attending trainings in table tennis in the sports school, which can be applied when working with insufficiently motivated athletes, namely: technology of personality-oriented training, game technology, technology of interactive training, etc.