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Physical Education
When teachers give students a voice, they are empowered and primed for success. According to Holdsworth (1998), giving students a voice means much more than consulting them and letting them speak. Students need to be made to feel they are valued. They need to feel appreciated and as though they make a difference in the community to which they belong.
Three levels have been identified within physical education at which students can have a voice. The highest level is curriculum, in which students have a say about the course content over the semester and/or school year. Obviously, students' opinions must be reasonable, as the curriculum must satisfy state standards. It may be more realistic to involve students in Level 2, project-based learning, where students design their own projects and assess their own process and performance. Easiest for the teacher to implement is Level 3, in which students make decisions within selected units.
The first factor in having a voice involves self-determination and an individual's three basic needs: competence, relatedness, and autonomy. The second factor involves letting students make choices but, because their experience is often limited, they may not fully recognize all their options. In...
Facilitating the decision process in this case helps students develop valuable skills they can use in other aspects of school and in life.
"Taking Personal and Social Responsibility" (Hellison, 1995) is a program that aims to teach responsibility through physical activity. The series of goal levels are approached with strategies including awareness talks, group meetings, opportunities for individual decision-making, and counseling and reflection times. A quality aerobic fitness program can meet the goals of this model. The program can improve physical fitness and can be modified for students with disabilities.
1. Physical Education can be integrated with other subject areas in a variety of ways. For young children, movement can be incorporated with music. Movement can be used as part of the morning meeting routine and for kinesthetic learning in drills for sight words and math facts. Some teachers use movement as part of behavior modification programs. Brain Gym, for example, is a trademarked program with prescribed movements…
References
Brain Gym. (2011). Brain Gym International. Retrieved from http://www.braingym.org/
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Fox, C.; Raynes, D.; and Park, Y. (2011). Development of PE metrics elementary assessments for national physical education standard 1. Measurement in Physical Education & Exercise Science 15(2), pp. 100-118.
Teachers Perceptions towards the value of personal development, health and physical education (PD/H/PE) The necessity for the furtherance of vigorous, hale and hearty lifestyles among the children and youth is immense. More and more children and youth are subjected to ample social evils and actions that expose their health and lifestyles at peril. This is substantiated by mounting reports of low self-esteem, insufficient nutrition, family troubles, strain, increased drop-out rates, aggression
Irrespective of the established advantages of the physical activity more than 50% of the American adults are not associated with sufficient physical exertion to entail the desired health advantages. Only the grown ups are not associated with the inadequate physical exertion. It has been observed that more that one third of the young children in the age group of 9-12 is not involving themselves in the healthy physical activity.
Learning in theory and practice: Vygotsky’s ZPD and physical education in primary education Introduction Age-graded schooling is one of the most common and conventional features of today’s academic environment. For younger learners in the primary education levels, this separation of young children from adolescents may seem on the face of it like a common sense approach to education—yet, as Gray and Feldman (2004) point out, separation such as this actually is more
Computers Are an Underutilized Resource for High School Physical Education Teachers Computers have become an integral part of the high school learning environment, beginning in the early 1990s. They provide a vast variety of resources to help enhance student education through presentation of material in a variety of media and act as an enhancement to teacher lessons. They can sometimes free teachers from routine tasks, allowing them to bring greater depth
Physical Education Lesson Plan One of the more overwhelming needs of society today is without a doubt to effectively address and curb the ever-present danger of childhood obesity. Without a doubt, childhood obesity is one of the biggest health concerns of our time, particularly because it leads to a range of other more serious and debilitating health issues. Furthermore, finding a way to address childhood obesity in a successful manner is
Title: The title includes the precise identification of the problem; it contains the independent and dependent variables and target population. It must be clear, concise, and fully descriptive of the study. The recommended length is 12 words. The Difference Between Fourth Grade Boys and Girls Attitudes Toward Physical Education Abstract/Overview: The abstract summarizes the contents of the manuscript. The abstract should begin by broadly summarizing the problem and importance of the study