Our number one goal is to guide your child in the process of becoming physically active and healthy throughout their life thereby improving their quality of life.

NAI Physical Education Curriculum Outline

NAI Course Options ● Regular Physical Education (1/2 time, full year) ● Advanced Physical Education (full time, full year) This physical education and fitness class is for those students that want to make a serious commitment to their physical well-being.

Why is PE Important? Students need to understand; ● Health related fitness impacts their/our personal quality of life ● Health impacts our whole society ● Our level of fitness has changed, can change, and will change based on our actions, NOW is the time to take control of our life. That’s all fine but we need to focus on academics?

Physical Education supports North Allegheny academics

OrganizationRecommendations for Physical Education Impacting Obesity Daily physical education K-12 taught by physical education teachers (2012) Physical education is the cornerstone of a comprehensive physical activity program; physical education for 150 min./wk for elementary and 225 min./wk for secondary (2012) Daily physical education-150 min./wk for elementary 225 min./wk for secondary taught by certified physical education teachers (2012) Schools should be the focal point of obesity prevention by providing daily physical education (2012) Increase the time and frequency of physical education (2010)

Physical Education Viewpoints ● Creating an Attitude: This is what we “GET TO DO TODAY” vs. This is what we “HAVE TO DO TODAY” ● 90% of learning occurs in the stretch zone ● In traditional physical Education most students are either in their comfort zone or panic zone.

Physical Education Curriculum, Guiding Objectives: ● All students will be lifelong learners, to facilitate this we (teachers) need to address why each curriculum unit is presented and how to extend participation beyond the class. ● All curriculum units presented will be lifetime in nature and emphasis physical fitness. ● We will attempt to expose students to many different activities. Every student may not enjoy every activity but if each student finds a few activities to participate in for a lifetime we have accomplished our number one goal. ● We will employ the “Challenge by Choice” approach allowing students to participate at their own individual levels.

Thank you for listening NAI Physical Education Staff Bill LoveBrenda Laughrey Todd Fuller John McNavage Ben BowerDave Schmidt Karen Peters