The Authors deal with the topic of motor and sport activity in Italian primary school and secondary school of first degree. Recently many projects were realized thanks to the new regulations concerning school autonomy, besides the European Year for Education through Sport (2004). After a description of the factors, which are the bases of an appropriate motor activity at school, the paper analyses the topic of motor development in the considered ages and the possibility of using track and field as a tool to develop motor skills and improve motor skills learning. Particularly, the characteristics of track and field, showing the greatest possibilities of general movement development in young people are illustrated, such as the ones related to the teaching of the coordinative skills.
The second part of the paper describes the problems concerning the evaluation at school and reports an experience of a motor evaluation carried out in a school., through the realization of a project based on track and fiels and volleyball. The main purposes of the evaluation, the diagnosis of motor performance and of motor development dealt with through some practical examples. An useful instrument is thus offered in order to describe pupils ’motor development, both in general and individual terms, as well as to give indications about their sports aptitude.

The Author studies in depth the topic of talent development according to the following intervention guidelines, illustrating the main models, which were elaborated for talent identification in sports and describing their limits and unsolved questions: analyzing the current trends in talent study and main operational implications, deriving from them; pointing out some operational questions concerning the development, starting from the results of the researches, of the talent in track and field.It is necessary to consider that talent identification is a complex long-term process, which has not to be based only on the discovery of some skills in young people and that the realization of an athlete requires many years of hard engagement . The purpose is of creating a system permitting to the athlete to pass from one phase to the following one, trying to eliminate the obstacles, which have been described above

In the field of technique teaching, a topic, which is very much studied, concerns the information the teacher or the coach have to give to the subject to facilitate learning , through the correction of possible mistakes . It is possible to distinguish an extrinsic feedback (external) and an intrinsic feedback (sensory perceptive system). Besides the definition , view with the aim of identifying the most appropriate moment to reach the wanted purpose . The descriptive feedback is also distinguished from the prescriptive one, according to the used teaching methods.

Technical tactical learning in young pepople requires an attentional skill, which has to be developed . The author analyses the topics related to athlete’s attention: focus and attentional style, attention in the peripheral vision, orientation of attention, selection of information , division of attention and intensity , relationship between attention and error, the various forms of errors.
The Author points out that the skill of focusing attention is a skill to acquire since childhood, Sometimes the aspects related to the attentional modalities and to the skill of maintaining and competition, are taken for granted or anyway , dealth by the coaches with occasional interventions. Athlete’s attention can be controlled also through diagnostic talks with the athlete , enhancing to outline the way of attentional development