The improvement of the social and citizen competence: innovation from physical education and tutoring

This paper addresses intervention based of an action-research project undertaken by a Primary Education center during the 2012-13 school year. The objective was to acquire skills related to the student's social and citizen competence with the intention of preventing and positively resolving conflicts, and thereby improving the classroom community and environment. This project was carried out using areas of physical education and the specific sessions that canter dedicated to tutoring. After the initial diagnostic period of the classroom community during physical education classes from the 5th and 6th grade of primary school, the priority became working with the skills of the students to design an action plan. This structure allowed for the introduction and reflection upon social skills during these sessions in the tutoring class as well as the application of these skills to real life situations in physical education. Once the results were evaluated, it was concluded that there was a significant decrease in the amount of conflicts in the classroom as well as physical education.