随着社会主义市场经济的高速发展,社会分工由粗放化逐步转为细密化,职业的种类也随之增多,从而使得社会对职业人员在素质及能力上提出了越来越高的要求。因此,高校培育优秀人才成了现今社会普遍关注的热点话题,作为培养学生一技之长的高职院校更要认识到培养学生专业水平,为其指明未来发展方向的重要性。在高职院校的体育教学中,不能仅以关注其运动训练成果为目的,还应根据学生实际情况,加强学生职业能力教育,使学生由“被动”学习转为“主动”学习,从而提高学生的职业能力,促进我国教育事业及职业能力事业的健康发展。本文通过介绍职业能力在高职院校体育教学中的重要意义,分析并探讨了职业能力在高职院校体育教学中的应用。 With the rapid development of the socialist market economy, the social division of labor has gradually become more and more intensive and the variety of occupations also increased. As a result, the society has placed ever-increasing demands on the quality and ability of professionals. Therefore, cultivating talents in colleges and universities has become a hot topic of general concern in today’s society. As a vocational college that cultivates students ’unique skills, it is even more important to recognize the importance of cultivating students’ professional standards and indicating their future development direction. In the PE teaching of higher vocational colleges, we should not just focus on the results of their sports training, but also strengthen the students’ vocational ability education according to the actual situation of the students so that students can change from “passive ” learning to "active Learning, so as to enhance students’ professional ability and promote the healthy development of China’s education and professional ability. By introducing the importance of vocational ability in physical education in higher vocational colleges, this paper analyzes and discusses the application of vocational competence in physical education in higher vocational colleges.