1. By : Debbie Charlesworth 2010 KINS-8431-NET (Curr Issues Trends in PE)
Quality
Physical Education
By : Debbie Charlesworth
2010 KINS-8431-NET (Curr Issues Trends in PE)

2. Quality Physical Education
Four Components of a High Quality Physical Education Program:
Opportunity to learn
Meaningful Content
Appropriate Instruction
Student and Program Assessment
(2010 American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance-Teaching Tools)

3. Quality Physical Education
Opportunity to Learn
All students are required to take physical education
Instructional time: Elementary-150 min/wk …Secondary-225 min/wk
Qualified physical education specialists
Class size consistent with that of other subject areas

4. Quality Physical Education
Meaningful Content
Curriculum written to NASPE Standards
Instruction in a variety of motor skills-designed to enhance physical, social, emotional/mental development of every child
Opportunity to improve social and cooperative skills
Develop cognitive concepts about motor skills and fitness
Promotion of daily physical activity now and throughout life

5. Quality Physical Education
Appropriate Instruction
Full inclusion of all students
Maximum practice time
Well-designed lessons to facilitate student learning
Assignments outside of school to promote learning/practice
Regular assessment to monitor and reinforce student learning
Physical activity not to be used as punishment

6. Quality Physical Education
Student and Program Assessment
Ongoing assessments throughout curriculum-monitor and reinforce student learning
Formative and summative
Aligned with NASPE standards and department curriculum
Assessments are reliable-measurements are consistent
Assessments are valid-measures what you are assessing
Administration periodically evaluates total physical education program
(Rink, 2006, p )

7. Quality Physical Education
Improve mental alertness
Academic performance
Readiness for learning
Enthusiasm for learning
**Learning experiences that meet developmental needs

8. Quality Physical Education
Top 10 Reasons Why Quality Physical Education is Important?
1. Helps Prevent Disease
2. Promotes Lifetime Wellness
3. Helps to Fight Obesity
4. Promotes Lifelong Fitness
5. Provides Unique Opportunity for Activity
6. Promotes Learning
7. Economic Sense
8. Widely Endorsed
9. Educates the Total Child
10. Teaches Self Management and Motor Skills

9. Quality Physical Education
Physical Education/Physical Activity helps children with:
Controlling weight  
Reducing blood pressure
Raising HDL ("good") cholesterol
Reducing the risk of diabetes and some kinds of cancer
Improved psychological well-being, including gaining more self-confidence and higher self-esteem

10. Quality Physical Education
Physical Education in the U.S.:
A Status Report from the CDC’s 2006 School Health Policies and Programs Study
Dept. of Health and Human Services – CDC ppt.—Slide #29

11. Quality Physical Education
Some improvements have been made
Percentage of States That Required or Encouraged Districts or Schools to Follow Standards or Guidelines Based on the National Standards for Physical Education
Dept. of Health and Human Services – CDC ppt—Slide #11

12. Quality Physical Education
Despite these improvements:
Only 4% of elementary schools, 8% of middle schools, and 2% of high schools provided daily physical education for all students for the entire school year
31% of high schools that require physical education allowed students to be exempted from physical education for inappropriate reasons

13. Quality Physical Education PE Left Behind ……ESPN Outside the Lines
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14. Quality Physical Education
History of Physical Education
1774 First physical education teacher: Johann Friedrich Simon
1810 Beginning Development of physical training
1825 New York schools offering gymnastics
1825 First PE teacher in United States: Charles Beck
1826 First gymnasium: Harvard College
1853 Boston mandates schools to offer physical education
1861 First attempt to prepare physical education teachers

15. Quality Physical Education
History of Physical Education
1863 Formation of Association of Football
1866 California mandates law –requires physical education in schools
1885 Formation of Association for the advancement of Physical Education
1891 Basketball invented
1896 Olympic Games – first modern games played
1910 NCAA formed
1968 Special Olympics established

16. Quality Physical Education
History of Physical Education
1972 Title IX
1975 Education of Handicapped Children Act
1980 Olympic Boycott
1990 Americans with Disabilities Act
2000 No Child Left Behind Act
2005 Individual with Disabilities Education Improvement Act

17. Quality Physical Education
Pennsylvania should establish a public school that places as much emphasis on physical as on intellectual fitness because “exercise invigorates the soul as well as the body.” - Benjamin Franklin, 1749
Dept. of Health and Human Services – CDC ppt—Slide #27

18. Quality Physical Education
By: Debbie Charlesworth
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