The characteristics of physical education teaching are:

1. Compared with other sports forms, the basic feature of sports is its outstanding educational and teaching nature. Any physical education teaching is a planned teaching process under the guidance of teachers (or instructors), that is, the learning and exercise process of the sports subject (object) itself.

2. Physical education takes teaching as the main form, classroom teaching or special counseling as the main form, and physical exercise and health care as the main means. These characteristics distinguish sports from other sports forms.

3. The concrete forms of physical education are various, not just school physical education. It is obviously inappropriate to equate sports (sports in a narrow sense) with school sports. This is not only difficult to justify in theory, but also leads to the neglect of physical education outside school (as it is in practice).

4. The most common and largest activity in physical education is school physical education and professional physical education, which interact and depend on each other, reflecting an interactive relationship.

Extended data

The transformation of human nature by sports is not only the unity of morphological structure and physiological function, but also the unity of body and mind. Physical education teaching should pay attention to students' intangible psychological development while pursuing students' physical transformation. Therefore, physical education teaching should be good at creating a lively teaching atmosphere different from intellectual education teaching and providing a good environment for students' mental health development.

We should make good use of the inherent attraction of sports activities and multiply and amplify this attraction through reasonable teaching organization. Physical education teaching should be a kind of happy teaching, emphasizing the active participation in the process, the positive experience of emotion and the independent liberation of personality, so that interpersonal relationships can be relaxed and harmonious, and students can get healthy development of body and mind freely, carefree and unconsciously in a relaxed and lively environment and happy mood.