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Linda Lohrey (Lohl3563)
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Username: Lohl3563
Post Number: 1
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 19, 2005 - 1:44 pm: |       |
When I was in school, health and nutrition was not taught in gym class - I had one quarter of health in sixth grade. Is this still the way gym classes are run? Is one quarter enough for students to understand health? I believe that health and nutrition need to be incorporated in Phy Ed - this may help with the nations obesity problem. |
Caitlin Hubbard
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| | Posted on Friday, October 21, 2005 - 7:10 am: | |
Linda,
I too believe that nutrition should be incorporated in Physical Education classes. I also believe you should integrate some health related topics into you physical education classes also. If you have the same students for health and physical education you should incorporate what you teach them in health class and bring it into the gymnasium. Or if you do not teach the same students for both, get in contact with the health teacher and see what subjects the students are learning about. The more the student can relate what they are learning and how it actually does affect the body the better. |
Maria Moriarty
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| | Posted on Tuesday, November 01, 2005 - 3:01 pm: | |
Linda,
In Ireland where I am from we teach health in a specific class called SPHE(Social, Personal and Health Education). This makes physical education specifically for physcial education. As students in Ireland generally get only two classes of physical education a week this is excellent as students need to be active during these classes and not sitting down listening to health issues etc. SPHE is taught twice weekly also so students develop a good understanding of it.
Maria. |
Amy Ott 7th Grade Girls Physical Education
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| | Posted on Monday, January 09, 2006 - 9:35 am: | |
At the school I teach at, Health is offered for a nine week period. That is equal to one quarter of the grading period. I agree that this is too little amount of time to teach so much information. We are in the process of trying to reduce the amount of information that we have to teach at each level. I think that the kids will never understand Health to the full extent until it is given the appropriate amount of time to be taught. I think that maybe a full semester of Health would be a lot more realistic. Good Luck with your class for that quarter. I also agree that the students need to have time to run around and be active as well as learning about their own personal health issues. |
Carmen R. Del Plato
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| | Posted on Monday, January 16, 2006 - 2:00 pm: | |
I have little control over what kinds of foods parents purchase for their children. I'm not sure if teaching kids what kinds of food they should eat would help the obesity problem. I do know that many states have a very low requirement for PE. And that most school districts don't even meet these low PE time requirments. I also know that studies have shown that students who are fit perform better academically. And some studies show that students kept their weight down with daily PE. I do know that alot of money is spent on athletics. If you are skilled enough to make the team you get rewarded with daily excercise for at least three months depending on the level. The ones that are cut, well I guess taxpayer money is being spent on the gifted fit athlete. Athletics serve only a pecentage of a school's population. PE is for everyone. Athletics and PE need to be seperate. Now we are paying this mentality with our children's health. I also know that most coaches, parents, and other teachers can careless about PE. In my elementary school the people who care about PE are the students and myself. We as physical educators need to stop talking on these forums to each other and start taking some action. I urge you to 1. find out what your state PE requirement is find out if schools in your state are meeting such a requirement 2. find out out what loopholes are in your state pe requirements that schools use to skirt around the pe time requirement. 3. find studies that shown that daily PE will help fight obesity and imrporove academics (this won't be hard). 4. make an appointment with a state senator or representative and push for enforcement of pe time requirements and or an increase in pe time requirement. I have an appointmnet on 2-21-06. with NY State Senator Mary Lou Rath. Good Luck!!! |
Troy Holley
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| | Posted on Wednesday, January 18, 2006 - 11:58 am: | |
It definately is a good idea to educate our children on the benefits of nutrition. However if there parents are feeding them junk - then they will continue to consume junk. It is a tough cirlce to break out of. With the school lunches not being what they should be, and in a 6-8 hour day for our children to eat just once is asking for their metabolism to be suppresed. The eat Quick and get out ot of the lunch room era has to end. Give them time to eat(more than once) and enjoy food.
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