The purpose of education is to obtain fundamental lifelong skills, for example, reading, math, writing, and health skills. The reason I believe this is the purpose of education is that you need fundamental lifelong skills in order to sustain life. Included in these fundamental skills are social-emotional learning skills which are also important to learn as you grow older. Physical education is one of very few subjects that teaches all three learning domains, psychomotor, cognitive, and affective which are important for developing and delivering lessons. The importance of physical education is to have students become physically literate, build skills, and promote a lifelong physically active healthy lifestyle after high school. Making sure students meet the national and state standards while also including differentiated learning strategies will help.
Fundamental lifelong skills include health and life skills which in my discipline as a physical education teacher is to educate students on how to and why it is important to be physically active after graduation and to develop lifelong psychomotor, cognitive, and affective skills which incorporate into health to be able to lead a healthy active lifestyle.
I chose physical education because I loved being in my physical education class when I was younger and was very into sports and how my physical education class has taught me these fundamental motor skills and I didn’t even know as I thought we just played games for fun. I want to teach physical education because I had a positive experience, I love being around physical activity and know I will enjoy teaching student’s skills they will be able to use after they graduate.
In my classroom, I use positive reinforcement to enact physical education and health by incorporating mile Mondays, weightlifting, team sports, and individual games. These units will be able to educate the students about teamwork, motor skills, and health skills.
My students can expect me to involve researched techniques and studies on how to have a successful physical education classroom, proper form and how to improve skills and going around the classroom giving feedback. For example, exercises that can be done after graduating high school like weightlifting, workouts, and sports.
I plan on not using command style and let my students have some say in my physical education class. As the years go on, I plan on reflecting on my instruction, lesson plans, and receive feedback from my students on what I can do to improve my class.
The expectations I have from students will come from a positive classroom environment and being straight forward with students that I expect students to dress in their proper gym uniform, be respectful, and participate in gym class by not sitting out and doing the tasks given, being respectful by paying attention, not doing things you are not supposed to be doing and showing sportsmanship to their peers. The results of these components, allows for a better learning environment and I will help them do this by communicating with all my students.
My students will know the expectations the first day they walk into my classroom, it will be on the syllabus and repeated throughout the year. I expect students to be engaged and ready to fully participate in each unit throughout the year.
As a physical education instructor, I want my students to learn as much as they can from my classroom, I plan to incorporate motor skills, health skills, social-emotional learning skills that can be used outside of school. My students should be able to recognize emotions, thinking before they act, work in a team setting, and using strategies. These skills will be incorporated into my daily lesson plans. The main goal of physical education is to develop individuals who have the knowledge and skills to develop and perform lifelong healthy physical activity.