Over the years‚ the Hillsborough High School has made Physical Education a mandatory requirment for all students to fulfill each year. Physical Education has been viewed as an essential time for students to develop leadership skills and teamworking skills. Students are also able to develop exercise habits for the future. Furthermore‚ many still believe that gym can alleviate stress‚ allow for athletes to be leaders‚ and it provides a social component which is important for both athletes and non-athletes
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Assignment Innovations in Sports Background: Sport is movement and moving. Rules change and new (variants of) sports are invented. Today‚ controversies abound about the use of technology in sports. The rapid advances in sports science‚ prosthetics and artificial materials‚ is a fact. The question of what is legitimate and what gives the user “unfair advantage” is likely to occur with increasing frequency. REQUIREMENTS: In order to form an opinion about any of these changes‚ gaining
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A continuing concern within physical education is the proper role and level of competition. Many of the abuses associated with organized sport are assumed to be the result of an overemphasis on competition‚ of a win-at-all -costs perspective. It is not uncommon for physical educators to advocate reducing competition‚ to replace competitive activities with cooperative activities‚ and to modify competitive activities in ways that reduce competitiveness. In its most extreme form‚ this kind of
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Meghan Rogers ENGL 1010.116 Dr. Golden Spring 2014 Essay III Physical Education and Sports Physical Education is very important in school these days. It is a required class in most high schools rather than an elective. The problem with some physical education classes is the teachers have favorites. Most of the time there is already an athlete of some type in the gym class so the instructor might favor them because they actually like the class and are competitive. Favoring athletes is not fair to
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different fields of sport and helps some of them find their hobbies‚ perhaps even their future careers. Physical Education classes provide students with the knowledge and set of skills needed to practise sports on their own‚ it educates them about healthy lifestyle and gets them interested in taking care of their bodies. We all know the health benefits that come with exercising regularly. Regular physical activity can reduce the risk of many chronic conditions‚ including coronary heart disease‚ stroke
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of the success of the child has to do with the structure or "scaffolding" the child has in place to help him or her along the journey thus making social interaction a vital part of his theory. This concept applies directly to the high school physical education "classroom". There are unique challenges that a teacher comes across when trying to use traditional instructional methods in an atypical classroom. The learning environment is not always conducive to the educator communicating important points
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that they are setting trends for the generation behind them. They don’t acknowledge that they have the power to make a change for the better in our country. Isn’t America supposed to be all about the people? This country needs to realize that Physical Education classes
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Teacher Interview I interviewed David Dunn‚ Physical Education Elementary teacher at College Grove Elementary on March 8‚ 2017. Mr. Dunn works with grades k-5 and earned his master degree in marketing then later returned to school to attain a degree in Physical Education with no minors. Currently‚ Mr. Dunn has taught for 3 years‚ all of which were at College Grove Elementary. Over the 3 years Mr. Dunn has worked as a P.E. instructor the school has grown tremendously. Originally‚ he was the
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naturally competitive but “they sometimes feel (perceive) that they will not be able to perform adequately to the performance demands of competition (Humphrey 23).” A big concern with competitive sports is the emotional stress that can affect a child’s physical well-being. Competitiveness makes one team successful and the other team a failure. Because losing can be a threat to one’s self-esteem‚ the negative emotion and anxiety can be personally threatening. Once kids adapt to these negative feelings‚ the
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switch from math to English. You actually have to take a break.” The AAP committee that developed the statement began its research in 2007‚ expecting to discover that recess is important as a physical outlet for children. What they found‚ however‚ was that playtime’s benefits extend beyond the physical. “We came to the realization that it really affects social‚ emotional and cognitive development in a much deeper way than we’d expected‚” she says. “It helps children practice conflict resolution
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