Table 1 Descriptions to intervention components and relation with potential mediators
Intervention component | Description | Potential mediators intervened |
|---|---|---|
Teachers’ need support | Teachers will be trained to teach using need supportive approaches during teacher workshops. Specific behaviors we will encourage include: - Providing informational feedback - Challenge students within their capabilities - Providing meaningful choices - Providing meaningful rationale - Acknowledging students’ difficulties - Showing genuine care for students | Perceived need support, competence, autonomy, relatedness, autonomous motivation |
Teaching using the SAAFE principles: - Supportive - Active - Autonomous - Fair - Enjoyment | Perceived need support, competence, autonomy, relatedness, autonomous motivation, enjoyment | |
“Fitness dice”activity | Teachers will be recommended to spend 20 min of lessons using the fitness dice. - Target 4 aspects of fitness highlighted by the Education Bureau (EdB) PE curriculum – flexibility, cardiovascular fitness, muscular strength, & muscular endurance - Four customizable dice with corresponding activity cards will be provided to each teacher: 1. Flexibility; 2. Cardiovascular endurance; 3. Upper body muscles; 4. Lower body muscles. - Using either a one-to-many or circuit training format, students will complete exercises based on the toss of a fitness die. - Students could choose a level of difficulty that is optimally challenging to them. - Both individual and paired activities are included to allow students to choose from. - Teachers will invite students to provide input for the fitness activities to be included in each die. | Competence, autonomy, relatedness, autonomous motivation, enjoyment |
Other motivational components | Playing music during the fitness dice activity - Students can provide input as to what music to play PE record form for self-monitoring and goal-setting - Self-monitoring - Goal-setting | Competence, autonomy, autonomous motivation, enjoyment |