Health and PE literacy is essential for today's students, especially as obesity and the potential for developing diabetes later in life spreads across the globe like an epidemic. Understanding issues related to health and physical exercise and how the two go together is something that students must take part in. One way to do that is to have them read available and relevant literature on what it means to be active, healthy and enjoy a healthy diet. Educators can help students to be healthier by incorporating health literature into their curriculum. As an educator, I can utilize the information on Shapeamerica.org to help my ESL students learn both how to read and how to be healthy. Articles form journals such as the American Journal of Health Education provides great insight for teachers and students about ways to incorporate healthy and physically fit exercises into one's life.

One way that I can incorporate health literature into my lesson is to have my ESL students read a newsletter or journal article on health. They will be immersing themselves in a subject that has a lot of informative value on how to be healthy and at the same time they will be tasked with applying their English-language skills. For example, they could be tasked with identifying all the adjectives in a particular paragraph. Or they could be asked to write a brief summary of what the article was about. Their comprehension skills could be measured via written or oral responses, and there could be a discussion in class about the article's merit. This would promote active learning and engage the students to interact with the text, the ideas about being healthy, and apply them to their own lifestyles. They would also be challenged to practice their English-language skills in writing and in speaking and they would be given points both for the clarity of their expression of ideas and the demonstration that they have understood the text.

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They could present their findings in class or in a written paper format. In either case, incorporating health literature into the ESL curriculum is a good way to combine two disciplines into way and integrate outside subjects into the ESL lesson.
PART 2

National Standards for Adapted Physical Education (APENS) shows that it is important to have expectations for individuals with disabilities. APENS lists 15 standards that a "qualified Adapted Physical Educator must know" in order to be an effective PE educator. The first standard is human development, which serves as the foundation for all PE. From there, the standards build to more specific aims, such as the development of motor behavior, history and philosophy, and assessment. The standards are helpful because they provide a guide for Adapted Physical Education teachers who must work with disabled students and help them overcome obstacles. Disabled persons are already handicapped by their physical disability, but when these standards are implemented, it can afford them the opportunity to put mind over matter and help pave the way to a brighter future.

From this perspective, it is important to disabled students that they have these standards set out for them and that their teachers know and implement them. It gives all stakeholders in the education process an idea of where the program should lead and what the objectives of the program should be. It provides a concrete basis upon which the disabled student can stand in order to reach the goals set forward. Direction is very important to young students who, otherwise, would have to wander on their own and struggle to overcome difficulties without any guidance whatsoever. These standards provide a clear-cut way for students and teachers to come together under a common aim to achieve real physical development that can grow a disabled student's confidence and support the student's desire to reach his or her maximum potential.

Classroom teachers may be able to assist in this process by promoting these standards with a poster on the wall or incorporating aspects of these standards into…