What is Physical Education? 

What is Physical Education? 

Physical education is "education through the physical." Physical education contributes significantly to every student's health and well-being. Every student, regardless of disability, ethnicity, gender, native language, race, sexual orientation, or religion-- has the right to an appropriate health and physical education program. A high-quality physical education program promotes an active lifestyle and improved health, motor skill development, and better cognitive performance. In a physical education class, students can participate and experience active activities. No student will require to be experienced in their level of understanding since the sole purpose of this program is to help students learn new sports and their purpose while having fun and bonding with other classmates. 

The program aims to develop students' physical competence and knowledge of movement and safety and their ability to use these to perform in a wide range of activities associated with developing an active and healthy lifestyle. It also develops students' confidence and generic skills, especially collaboration, communication, creativity, critical thinking, and aesthetic appreciation. These, together with nurturing positive values and attitudes in PE, provide a good foundation for students' lifelong and life-wide learning for all schools. 

The program does not just help students but helps us as teachers to understand and overcome any challenge to increase the opportunity for students to be physically active, cognitively engaged, and proficient in motor skills, the curriculum, assessment, environment, instruction, and instructional materials will require both revision and a new vision of physical education. 

This program also includes fundamental movement skills that must be refined before introducing specialized movement skills. Fundamental movement skills include (walking, running, leaping, jumping, hopping, climbing, galloping, sliding, and skipping), manipulation skills (ball rolling, throwing, kicking, punting, striking, volleying, bouncing, catching, and trapping), and stability skills (bending, stretching, twisting, turning, swinging, upright balances, inverted balances, rolling, starting, stopping, and dodging).