PHYSICAL EDUCATION CONCEPTS & STANDARDS
Physical activity is critical to the development and maintenance of good health. The goal of physical education is to develop physically educated individuals who have the knowledge, skills and confidence to enjoy a lifetime of healthful physical activity. Students who are healthy both mentally, emotionally and physically perform better in school. Providing a movement based curriculum embraces the whole-child approach of teaching creating students who are able to problem solve, critically think, practice healthy lifestyles, and challenge themselves.
FUNDAMENTAL MOVEMENT CONCEPTS
This concept encompasses basic and core locomotor skills at age-appropriate ability levels. It includes spatial awareness, body awareness, qualities of movement, and relationship of the body in space. Movement concepts allow students to learn how to move in response to feedback, to repeat & perform tasks/skills, and to recognize/describe correct
form/skills.
STRATEGIES & TACTICS
This concept involves strategy development as well as developing technical motor skills and movement patterns. Students demonstrate their knowledge of tactics, movement patterns, and technical motor skills by designing rules, procedures, and skills.
HEALTH RELATED FITNESS
This concept covers the basic fitness exercises needed for developing a healthy human body. It concentrates upon cardiovascular fitness, aerobic fitness, muscular strength, flexibility, muscular endurance, and body composition. The main goal of this concept is to enhance fitness levels. It often uses nationally-recognized, criterion-referenced, health-related fitness assessments to help measure progress.
PERSONAL & SOCIAL BEHAVIOR
This concept is comprised of ideas surrounding behaviors that respect self and others in physical actvity settings. It promotes the idea of safety, directions, honesty, accepting decisions, remaining on task while independently working, assessing and taking responsibility for personal actions/behavior, exhibiting self-control, cooperation, perseverance, verbal & non-verbal encouragement, and employing conflict resolution strategies.
COMPLEX & SPECIALIZED MOVEMENT
These concepts utilize basic fundamental movements in a more focused and specific manner. It includes both offensive and defensive strategies, evaluation of critical elements of basic movement, use of coaching information to improve performance, and identification of critical components of a skill.
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM
This concept is comprised of activities that encourage students to maintain or enhance a healthy lifestyle. It encourages students to develop a habit of participating in at least 60 minutes a day of moderate to vigorous activities for most days of the week.
SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES
This concept centers around comprehensive knowledge of the effects physical activity has upon the body, components of health-related fitness, the importance of warm-ups and cool-downs, principles of training, naming and locating muscle groups, nutrition, sun safe practices, and recognizing the relationship between types of fitness and types of exercise.
VALUES OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
This concept concentrates upon the importance of physical activity within an individual's life. It identifies enjoyment, challenge, health, self-expression, and social interactions as the core values of physical activity. Encouraging participation in new skills, continuing when frustrated, expressing positive feelings on progress made, and examining motivation and self-discipline.