This interactive, online study guide is designed to improve your understanding of the national standards for physical education and how to implement them in your classroom. It is supplemented with the following pamphlets:
Moving Into the Future – National Standards for Physical Education will also be referred to throughout the course.
The prerequisite knowledge and skills that you should have include a basic understanding of the following: teaching and planning methods, transitional movement forms and physical activity skills that support a physically active lifestyle, maturational changes that occur in students in grades K-12, and the national standards of physical education.
In this course, you'll be a member of a resource team of physical educators visiting schools within a school district that have been designated as having exemplary physical education programs. The schools within the district have asked for the external visit so that program improvement is ongoing.
The first discussion begins with the characteristics of a high-quality physical education program. It will introduce you to all of the schools and physical education teachers that you will be visiting. You'll also meet the resource team members who will be discussing the various topics throughout the visits.
By the time all discussions are complete, you should be able to do the following:
1. Identify the characteristics of high-quality physical education programs and understand how the national standards can be used as a framework for developing physically educated students.
2. Identify and implement appropriate plans with high expectations for student learning in a safe, positive learning environment.
3. Identify and implement instructional strategies for student learning with appropriate content that reflects the national standards for physical education.
4. Identify and implement ways to maximize practice with participation for all students, considering individual differences.
5. Identify and implement assessment strategies that encourage student learning and improve instruction.
The last part of the course is the final course exam, which covers material from the online study guide as well as the accompanying resources.
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