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Keri DuPont (Keri)
Junior Member
Username: Keri
Post Number: 2
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, October 27, 2005 - 6:08 pm: |       |
Hi everyone, I am a student at a liberal arts school. I am in a phy ed curriculum and methods class. We talked about the fact that they want to cut time for phy ed and focus on the core curriculum. However, I really think this would be a mistake with the rising percentage of obesity in America. What do you think? |
Anonymous
| | Posted on Monday, October 31, 2005 - 3:19 pm: | |
Students need PE. However, their PE instruction does not simply need to be physical activity (although that is a part of it). They need to be taught healthy lifestyles as well. They need to know that chips aren't very good for snacking and that apples are. Also, PE should contain self esteem training. |
michael grimm (Mtg6050)
Junior Member
Username: Mtg6050
Post Number: 2
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, November 08, 2005 - 8:27 pm: | |
I believe that physical education is very important in the core curriculum. It is not a good idea to cut P.E. but rather increase it to a everyday class. Students need 60 minutes of physical activity a day to maintain a healthy lifesyle. By having 60 minutes a day of physical activity, students will learn the importance of living a healthy active lifesyle that they can take with them for the rest of their lives. This will decrease the percentage of obesity individuals in the United States. |
Lee Przygocki
Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 01, 2006 - 8:43 am: | |
Yes, physical education is very important. In physical education students learn how to interact with other students and how to work together performing a rage of different tasks. Most important students are learning the skills to be health for the rest of their lives. It is no secret that today's youth are not in the best shape of their lives. By having and implementing physical education, we are promoting life long activities that students can take with them for the rest of their lives. There have also been studies done that suggest that being physically active helps improve students test scores and academic levels. |
Matthew Mills (Mattm1980)
Junior Member
Username: Mattm1980
Post Number: 4
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 7:10 am: | |
Physical education, when taught correctly, can also benefit a child's social skills. Teamwork, winning and losing graciously etc. Often these skills cannot be taught in the classroom but using sport they can. |
Estee Adery (Ejadery1)
Junior Member
Username: Ejadery1
Post Number: 4
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 07, 2006 - 5:40 am: | |
I agree with both Lee and Matt. When PE is facilitated correctly, students get so much more than fitness out of the class. It is interaction, working together, learning good sportsmanship, improving social and cognitive skills and so much more! Physical Education, when taught correctly, not only sends the message of lifelong physical activity, but teaches students to be better people. At times, during P.E the students who normally do not interact with one another, have a chance to do so. Physical Education in imperative to have if we want to send the message of living healthy and all I have listed above. |
Kris Kramer (Kdk4988)
Junior Member
Username: Kdk4988
Post Number: 5
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 8:49 am: | |
I feel that PE is an essential class that should be kept in the school system. Not only do students benefit from exercising and being active, but they also learn important things such as team building and working with others to achieve a common goal. Also, by participating in PE, students will find activities that they enjoy and will allow them to continue to participate in activities throughout their lives. PE is also a way to get out of the classroom and expend energy in a positive way. |
George V Harnick (Gharnick)
Junior Member
Username: Gharnick
Post Number: 15
Registered: 2-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 2:39 pm: | |
I completely agree with everything stated above. But I would also like to mention the connection between mind and body. Not only do you perform better academically if you look and feel good physically, but your self concept and self esteem is driven upward when you feel good and feel good about yourself. We are the basis for success - physically, emotionally, socially, and psychologically. I feel that we as physical educators can have one of the largest impacts on childrens lives.
George |
James Mutter (Peforyourlife)
Junior Member
Username: Peforyourlife
Post Number: 2
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Monday, March 27, 2006 - 7:31 pm: | |
I currently teach in a great school in a great district here in Florida. The only problem is that our county is FCAT crazy. Our superintendent is against increasing the amount of time my kids come to pe. prek-5th grade come to my class only 40 minutes per week. Sixth grade gets 80 whole minutes per week (2 forty minute sessions). I recently asked him if he would be in favor of increasing the time allotted for pe and activity and he said "No, that is the parents responsibility." Which to some degree I agree, however he is totally missing the connection between the healthy mind and healthy body correlation. |
Jon Scharpenberg (Jonscharpenberg)
Junior Member
Username: Jonscharpenberg
Post Number: 2
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 28, 2006 - 12:04 pm: | |
There is a lot of research out that suggests that increasing physical activity will increase test scores. I would try that approach. However, if we are simply rolling out the ball and playing games, maybe that is why some administrators don't see the value in PE. I think we need to make sure we are impacting the student's lives' and not just exposing them to organized activities. |
James Mutter (Peforyourlife)
Junior Member
Username: Peforyourlife
Post Number: 5
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Friday, June 16, 2006 - 9:14 pm: | |
I make the most out of the 40 minutes per week I have the students, and NO I am not one of those 3 R guy's.
You know...Roll call, Roll out the balls, Rest in the shade???
I have seen that done in some of my former schools but would never go there.
And yes I have read "THE FRENCH STUDY". I think it was required reading for my bachelor's degree in PE.
I am not a PE nazi either! I make my class fun and the kids love being active.
I have great buy-in to my program.
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Heather Mabie (Heather)
Junior Member
Username: Heather
Post Number: 4
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 13, 2006 - 8:22 pm: | |
Physical Education needs to be put back in all school systems. It needs to be a week long class just like any other class you take in school. When I was in high school my physical educator was a ball roller. She sat in her chair gave us games to play and we played them. We need the up coming generations of Physical Education Teachers to make schools realize that the old PE programs that they were use to are dead. The new generation of PE classes are about promoting a healthy life style and to keep kids physically active. |
jane keily (Jkeily)
New member
Username: Jkeily
Post Number: 1
Registered: 6-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, September 14, 2006 - 9:29 am: | |
National Association for Sport & Physical Education: Elementary Physical Education: Do we need Phy Ed?
Heather -
You are right on! There are way too many "ball rollers" out there and our students deserve better than that. We need to be strong advocates for our programs and talk to administrators and parent groups to rally them to support our programs even in the light of requirements put on the schools to meet academic rigors. Research seems to imply that students that perform better, are those children that have access to quality physical activity daily. When the program is for daily physical education - it is the PE teacher's job to provide age appropriate and organized qualities lessons to encourage children to get active, strive for improvement and have FUN! This is the way we will hopefully be able to encourage this generation of children to be active for a lifetime and start to rid ourselves of the terrible diseases that result from a lack of daily physical activity.
Jane Keily
LS PE Dept. Chair
University School of Milwaukee
2100 W. Fairy Chasm Rd.
Milwaukee, WI 53217
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steve acree (Stephenpe)
Member
Username: Stephenpe
Post Number: 25
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, September 14, 2006 - 10:31 am: | |
I was very fortunate in my jr high with PE as the guy was extremely into it. He taught us lots of activities and we dressed out and exercised each day. He gave us the Pres Phys Fitness test and even had some interns that built obstacle course to run. He inspired me to become a PE teacher and last year I found him ( he was retiring from being a PE prof at MTSU).
I was very fortunate for about 22 years at my present school as it allowed me to have each kid everyday for 30 minutes. We covered so much and I learned lots of new ways to excite them and get them moving. Last year they cut my days in half and I do two schools. So now its less for them and more for me. |
Jonathan (Jonathan8)
Junior Member
Username: Jonathan8
Post Number: 4
Registered: 9-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, September 14, 2006 - 12:53 pm: | |
I believe the time of PE for students each week should be increased, not decreased. Physical Education has come a long way since I was in elementary, middle, and high school. The core focus of the PE classes I had in school was to play games to keep us busy, and of course the sports competition games in high school. I love how the core focus of PE today is lifetime physical fitness because this was something that was never mentioned to me as a child. This is why I love being in the field of PE, and I look forward to starting my career as a Physical Educator, and do just that; physically educate students to maintain a healthy lifestyle. |
Robert Steetle (Rls0984)
Junior Member
Username: Rls0984
Post Number: 5
Registered: 3-2008
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 12:22 pm: | |
I believe that would be a mistake for more reasons than just obesity. How many students do you think are going to want to stay seated a whole day of school? If physical education classes were eliminated, I think it would cause many teachers to become unhappy not just physical education teachers. Physical Education is also a good way for students to interact more with their fellow peers. |
