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Steve Jefferies (Admin)
Board Administrator
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Post Number: 111
Registered: 1-2008
| | Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2011 - 3:11 pm: |       |
AREA B: Connecting K-12 Physical Education Programs and Community Physical Activity Programs
One of the clear visions from the postings to the PE2020 web site and feedback from the PE2020 Forum was the increasing importance of connecting school physical education programs to before and after school physical activity opportunities in communities. The obesity epidemic and also the research supporting the importance of physical activity for a healthy life, clearly point to the need for children and youth to be more physically active. Quality programs of physical education programs guide youngsters in the process of becoming physically active for a lifetime. One of the ways they do this is to encourage children to become physically active outside of the school setting in activities they enjoy.
1. Develop clear criteria for quality physical education-physical activity community connections. These criteria would define and describe quality community connection programs. Considerations would include:
• The community program is available to all of the students in the school. If there is a fee involved with the community program there should be a way that students whose families cannot afford the program could receive grants or scholarships to engage in the program.
• The program should result in recommended amounts of MVPA. Sedentary community activities would not be included in the content of NASPE recommended community connections.
• Community connection programs should not be thinly disguised athletic programs that “cut” students or are designed to identify highly skilled potential athletes. Programs should be inclusive and not exclusive in design.
• Community programs should be led by qualified instructors/leaders.
• Connections should be made with parents and families so that the process of becoming physically educated is a family affair.
• Community connections should investigate relationships with medical doctors.
• Community connections should consider opportunities for physical activity before, during, and after school.
• Physical education-community connected programs should consider developing an “iPEP” approach: Individualized Physical Education Programs. These unique (and monitored) programs will connect individual student lives and personal motivation with school and community physical activity opportunities.
• Whenever possible, community programs should be offered on school grounds.
2. Once clear criteria for quality physical education-physical activity community connections have been developed, create a registry of community programs that meet the criteria that physical educators could adopt and/or adapt into their physical education programs.
• Organize registry by states, grade levels, types of physical activity, e.g. aquatics, hiking, intramural sports, etc., so that users can easily locate information.
• Physical educators who volunteer to submit their information to the community connection program would agree to:
• Complete an on-line form stating that they meet the published criteria.
• Provide NASPE with a brief description of their program that would be posted on the NASPE Community Connections web site
• Agree to respond to e-mail queries about their programs or perhaps some programs would also be available for visitor observations.
4. Use the Let’s Move in Schools initiative and Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program (CSPAP) model as shared technical culture, to provide physical activity beyond the school day that brings people together in a healthy way, through community connections. To do so, NASPE should build CSPAP toolkits to support hosting culminating community events like a “Health, Fitness and Nutrition” Olympics or “Zumba, Bike and Broccoli” Triathlons. These online toolkits focus on the five components of the CSPAP model, specifically utilizing local resources and expertise to provide physical activity opportunities for the community on school grounds, as an extension of the curriculum. The Director of Physical Activity will distribute the toolkits to promote “anytime, any path, anyplace”.
3. Recreate a NASPE version of the VERB campaign where schools form health advisory committees that include parents, students, teachers, and local experts in which the group submits their actions to a broader website. Sample components might include:
• Interface with a movement meter (a visual display of progress as the school district upload more materials such a policies, programs, actions, evidence of effective physical education programs, and other artifacts).
• Testimonies of success.
• A cell phone application that allows people to use their phone to capture an artifact of a successful event or program and share it with a community of practice or group of other teachers attempting to accomplish the same.
• Success measured by extent to which students continue activities learned in school during out of school hours. |
Joe Smith (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Friday, June 10, 2011 - 6:57 am: | |
Why is AAHPERD-NASPE "avoiding" the obvious about academic achivement related to promoting community relations and guiding educational decision makers to supporting PE REFORMS? The grand showcase was April 14, 2010, yet academic performance is still not showcased. ADs will and have shown how the school athletes tend to perform better. Colleges-especially at D-2 and D-3 levels thrive with scholar athletes. Let's Move In school is a logo name out there, but put the RESEARCH DATA on the tables of decision makers! NASPE introduced the CDC academic report in conjunction with Let's Move In School, but still appears to be hestitant to state the obvious academic performance of healthier children/teens who have better attendance and personal development for learning. Academics related to body and brain connections lacking in a sedentary society needs to be be brought to the forefront of these reforms!
CDCpapers are at
http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/health_and_academics/index.htm#3
http://www.equitycampaign.org/i/a/document/12557_EquityMattersVol6_Web03082010.pdf
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test (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2011 - 10:00 am: | |
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Elizabeth Tropia (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Monday, June 27, 2011 - 7:39 pm: | |
I feel this is a crucial part of physical education that needs to become more important as we move forward. So many students only get physical activity when they're in physical education class. Kids need more movement and activity in their lives than 2-3 times a week. Students need to have a program that they can participate in outside of school that would give them an opportunity to stay active and interact with their peers. These types of programs would allow students with similar interests to interact with each other. Who knows, students who would normally never speak to each other during school, could become great friends while participating in some kind of physical activity program. I strongly agree that some kind of funding or grant/scholarship needs to be available to families who can't afford to participate. We shouldn't let something like money get in the way of kids becoming healthier individuals. We need to get kids excited about playing sports again. It doesn't even have to be the traditional sports. When I was doing my student teaching experience, the school had an after school floor hockey league. I've never seen some of those students with bigger smiles on their faces. There are so many benefits of participating in sports, and some kids will never have the skill set to make school teams, so there need to be other recreational opportunities there for them to enjoy. Obesity is clearly a huge problem in our society, and this could lead us one step closer to a solution. By providing students with these after school programs, we could be improving their health and allowing them to experience things they might normally never get a chance to participate in. They may find they enjoy a certain activity, and participate in it for the rest of their lives. |
Elisa Busby (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 - 11:24 am: | |
I guess if we can get over the feeling we are competing with community resources and other agencies involved in the same purpose we can do some great things together. By joining forces and being resources as well as educators we all will have greater impact and get the results for our population that we desire - healthy and physically active. Let's do it, I was excited to see AAHPERD join with the ASCD Whole Child Initiative, when our school built a relationship with our neighboring Parks & Recreation center it made a world of difference for our whole community. Together we are all better than scattered efforts trying when to get the same outcome. |
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