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Nancy Ferris
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Thursday, November 03, 2005 - 1:02 pm: |       |
As a student when training to be a Physical Education teacher, you cannot
qualify as a teacher if you are not in good physcial condition. We
accomodate students with various disablities in our PE classes by
modifying activities, and rightly so. I am interested in opinions
regarding teaching with a disability (e.g. if the teacher suffers an
injury that affects him/her long term)? Does this mean that we are no
longer eligible to teach PE? Do you think this is a form of discimination?
Nancy Ferris
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Fit Man
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Wednesday, November 09, 2005 - 6:50 am: | |
I feel that the issue is not so much of whether or not he teacher is phsically fit to perform his/her duties in the classroom, but whether or not their physical appearance is sending the wrong message. We tend to over analyze a persons appearance in this society and as a result we create leigons of un-healthy students who are incapable of accepting their body types and have a skewed interpretation of what "healthy" looks like. We need to remind all students regardless of body type, that healthy is not only a physical attainment, but also a mental state as well. Remind students that some great athletes are not considered Abercrombie-fit. Babe Ruth, George Foreman, Jerome Bettis, and 90% of professional women's softballers don't meet America's standard of fitness, but they still excel regardless. So as teachers, we should concentrate more on our abilities as teachers first and foremost and worry about the modeling during the summer vacation. |
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