Orienteering, with its educational value that combines intellectual and physical challenges, has been included in the emerging sports section of the "Compulsory Education Physical Education and Health Curriculum Standards 2022 Edition". It can address the issues of monotonous content and rigid forms in traditional physical education teaching models and become a key carrier for driving the reform of physical education teaching. This article first introduces orienteering, then analyzes its current development status and existing problems, and proposes four practical approaches: designing a reasonable curriculum system, implementing professional teacher training, developing and utilizing curriculum resources, and establishing a teaching evaluation mechanism. The aim is to promote the popularization and promotion of orienteering in junior high school physical education teaching under the new curriculum standards and provide an effective means for the comprehensive development of students' core literacy. 

Lin Jiayuan, Wang Jinyue, Yu Hao. Analysis of the Path for Introducing Orienteering into Junior High School Physical Education under the New Curriculum Standard. International Journal of New Developments in Education (2025), Vol. 7, Issue 7: 21-26. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJNDE.2025.070704.

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