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This summary provides links to documents that describe best or promising practices in the teaching of physical education. Other school-based activities, such as track and field days, fitness testing and co-curricular activities, that are often led by PE teachers are also described here. The next section in Comprehensive School-Community Approaches to promoting physical activities describes other activities that parents, students, principals, nurses and others can do. This list of best practices is certainly not complete. We hope only to whet your appetite for learning about what works in physical education. We strongly recommend that you visit the web sites of these organizations.
You should start
with a foundation of any program: evidence-based and clearly
stated learning outcomes. CAHPERD has provided the background in
its Physical
Education 2000 document and its
PE
Learning Outcomes. For a brief overview prepared by the
Centers for Disease Control in the Unites States,
Suggested List of Instructional Themes and
Young (1997) provides a research rationale for such national
standards .
There are also several web-based documents to help you in planning your
PE program. The Department of Education in the United Kingdom has
developed a
program planner for PE. The U.S. Department of Education has
summarized the evidence and characteristics of high-quality
school programs. Use these planning tools from CAHPERD:
Your program
planning also needs to address some broad issues such as gender,
disability and safety. Here are some links to start examining
these issues.
Teaching about
physical education, so that students recognize the value of
physical activity throughout their lives, is also an important
part of PE programs. This can include concepts such as health
benefits, body image, well-being, fairness, the history of
sport, sociology and other aspects. See how the Alberta
education ministry has addressed the
health benefits issue in their curricula. In addition to
teaching knowledge about physical activity in PE classes, we
should also seek to incorporate physical activity
across the curriculum in other subjects.
There are several
school activities that most PE teachers lead within their
schools because they are so important to the teaching of
physical education. (Note intramurals and coaching are addressed
in the section on Comprehensive School-Community Approaches to
promoting Physical Activity). Again it is not possible to cover
these topics adequately here, but a list of topics and links
have been included:
Last, but
certainly not least, your program planning should consider the
capacities of your PE teaching staff. CAHPERD has three
resources that can assist you:
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