Movement has a positive effect on our motor skills, health, emotional and social activity, and is especially important for the cognitive functioning. Teachers should also be aware of this when they work with students. Despite all the positive effects of movement on different areas of our lives, today's way of life involves too little movement, which is also true for children and adolescents. This is why teachers face the challenge, how to encourage their students to move more. In the master's thesis we focused on the beliefs of the class teachers about the importance of movement in everyday life and for the productivity of the students, since it is the teacher's beliefs that can significantly influence the behavior of the students. We also investigated the ways and to what extent teachers include movement in teaching, what effects (according to teachers) these activities have on students, and what difficulties teachers face when they incluse movement to their teaching. The survey included 112 class teachers, who completed an online survey questionnaire. The results show that most teachers have positive beliefs about the importance of movement for our lives and also for students. Most teachers incluse movement in teaching frequently and in different ways. Teachers include movement in various subjects and in all didactic stages of the lessons. There is no difference in the frequency of use of movement in teaching among teachers with different years of teaching. Similarly, the results did not indicate differences in the use of movement in teaching between teachers teaching students in different grades (different ages of students). Teachers who use movement in their lessons, notice positive effects on students (cognitive, motor, social and emotional area). Most teachers do not face difficulties when using physical activity in their teaching.
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