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The objective is to analyze the syllabus content of the discipline “Sports and Pedagogical Improvement (Artistic Gymnastics)” for female second-year students of the School of Physical Education and Sports. Materials and methods: analysis, synthesis and comparison of literary sources, pedagogical observation, study and collation of instructors’ positive working experience. Results. The analysis of the syllabus content of the discipline ”Sports and Pedagogical Improvement” for female second-year students allowed to determine that the principal tasks are: to arm the students with the knowledge of the main types of training for qualified female athletes in artistic gymnastics; to teach the future professionals the fundamentals of the methods of physical, technical, psychological, tactical and theoretical training in artistic gymnastics; to shape the students’ professional and pedagogical abilities and skills in effective realization of all types of female gymnasts’ training; to cultivate in the future professionals the knowledge, abilities and skills of organizing control of the level of female gymnasts’ physical, technical, psychological, tactical and theoretical training. Conclusions. Teaching the discipline “Sports and Pedagogical Improvement (Artistic Gymnastics)” in the second year of training at the School of Physical Education aims at arming the students with the knowledge of the main types of female athletes’ training in artistic gymnastics; teaching them the fundamentals of the methods of physical, technical, psychological, tactical and theoretical training, and shaping professional and pedagogical abilities and skills in effective realization of all the above-mentioned types of training in the future professional activity.

Research objective: to determine the health-improving potential of dancing exercises used in physical education of female students of higher educational institutions. Research methods: study and analysis of pedagogical, scientific and methodological literature on the subject matter of the research; observations, questionnaires, functional tests; statistical methods of data reduction. Conclusions. As part of the study, the use of dancing exercises in the physical education of female students of higher educational institutions proved contributing to a significant increase in the level of their physical health in general and improvement of some of its indicators, including strength and life indices, heart rate recovery time after 20 squats. Dancing exercises also boost spirits, improve health and activity of the female students, which the study proved statistically.

The paper offers a model of professionally applied physical training of female students of the School of Pre-School Education through rhythmic gymnastics. The study proves that rhythmic gymnastics exercises have health-improving, developmental, educational and aesthetic potential, which makes them an effective means of professionally applied physical training of future teachers at pre-school institutions. The offers a set of rhythmic gymnastics exercises selected specifically for professionally applied physical training of female students at the School of Pre-School Education, and a model designed to implement such training during the period of studies at the higher educational institution.