EDP360 ASS 2 PROJECT

The purpose of Sports and physical education is to teach the whole student, not just their body and movement. Sports provides the opportunity to teach students about movement, strategies, teamwork, problem solving, health and skill related fitness. Exposing students to various physical activities, sports, and methods of fitness can better provide enjoyment of physical activity, as well as build social, psychomotor, and cognitive skills. I strive to safely provide the means for students to enjoy physical activity, become more confident with their abilities, increase their knowledge of health related fitness, and help them find ways to continue to be physically active.

“The analysis of movement provides an athlete with optimal development as well as minimising the risk of developing injuries through the incorrect execution of a movement” (Ackland, Elliott & Bloomfield, 2009, p 301).

Physical Development: Helping with coordination of body parts and how you can use hands and feet to move things. How to control your movements in an effective manner. The importance of a good, healthy diet and how it can affect performance.

Physical education is a vital part of education in schools and has changed significantly over many years and generations to become what it has now from the 1992 curriculum (Accessed at http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/603/contents/made. Last accessed 13/03/2011) to the newly introduced 2008 curriculum. It has changed in many ways

--4 steps of obstacle course for 10 rounds with other kids: Jumping on and off 4 steps triangular hilltops, walking backwards on the balance beam, jumping in 4 colored rings with feet apart and together alternately, and lacing jumbo beads to improve compliance, body awareness, orientation, activity tolerance, work behaviors, cognition, sensory input and gross, fine motor skills, sitting, and waiting between rounds.

This program can be used for children of all ages. At a young age, the goal of the classes it to teach simple motor skills, and teaching the students how to move the different parts of the body. Simple activities include hula hoops, jump ropes, bean

Health and Physical Education provides learning opportunities for students to make meaning of and apply the knowledge and skills related to health and movement. They learn movement skills through physical education. These skills enable them to develop personal, interpersonal, behavioural, cognitive and social skills. Movement skills also encourage students for ongoing participation across their lifespan which leads to positive health outcomes (Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority, 2012). According to UNESCO (1999), learning to move and enjoying the freedom of movement is a human right (as cited in ACARA, 2012). HPE promotes movement skills which are important part of daily life to enhance active living. The content of curriculum focuses on developing knowledge and understanding about how body moves

Fundamental movement skills (FMS) are basic skills. These skills begin to be developed throughout the early years of life, from crawling to walking, from walking to running. Pickup and Price (2007) say that children gain control over their bodies by moving in a variety of ways. They go on to say that children have various and versatile movements to interact with the environment. Once the FMS skills are developed, physical progress in Physical Education (PE) can be made.

This program is offered at the York Athletic Facility centre in North York. It runs anywhere between 8am to 8pm from May 2, 2016 – August 14, 2016. We offer our program during the summer months to provide flexibility within people 's schedules. This is also around the time that college and university students are finished classes. We provide indoor and outdoor tracks to accommodate different weather circumstances. We have 100 – 1500m running, shot put, long/high jump etc. These require specific equipment for each like hurdles, starting blocks, shotput balls, measuring tapes and many more. We hope to exceed and grow our program within a number of facilities and community centres as well.

The first set of activities that he performed was locomotor movements. Out of these, a total of six different assessments were completed. From the six that were completed, five will be evaluated in greater detail.

In Round 2, a precision drill, made up of 10 motions, is choreographed for all the teams in the district, along with more jumps and skills, such as tumbling. A team’s tumbles can range from a forward roll or cartwheel, all the way to standing back tucks.

As a way to establish how my personal body pedagogies could influence the learning experience of my future students a process of reflection takes place. This reflection will enable me to analyse the context of primary schooling, my prior and current body experiences and understand how the body is a socially produced idea. It is then I will be able to understand how my personal body story may affect my future HPE pedagogies and impact the experiences of my future students. As I described earlier I attended primary school at my local public school in Western Sydney. During all my years at primary school I was always involved in sporting carnivals, teams and classes. I was an outgoing students which enabled me to have the confidence during physical education. Due to my physical physique, as I was very tall for my age throughout school I was always encouraged by teachers to ‘try out’ for sporting teams or join events at the sports carnivals. It was during these events that my love for physical activity grew. The primary school I attended away promoted physical activity (Board of Studies, 2007) whether it was during lunch having teachers in the playground setting up games for children to participate in or providing students the opportunity to join different teams, PSSA or dance group participation within physical activities was encouraged. A reason why physical activities was an important part of my primary school is that the teachers were always involved and there to encourage

Over many decades physical education has been a source of debate in whether it is an essential asset to a schools curriculum. With a failing economy at hand the first subjects to be eradicated are music, drama, and physical education. Dr. Dudley Sargent, a pioneer in physical education at Harvard University, suggest otherwise. In his article, Physical Training as a Compulsory Subject, Sargent argues that physical education is not only beneficial to the individual but is a great asset to a schools curriculum because only nourishing the mind and not the body is not educating an individual to their full potential.

The foundation for physical education branches from Movement Education, which teaches kids to develop motor skills and coordination that are the building blocks for all physical activities whether it be sports or just throwing a ball. Movement education is an important theme to teach the pre-K and elementary age group. At this time period, children are just learning to control their bodies in a mindful way, and reinforcing the ideas of a mind and body connection will help them further develop their skills. One of the key components of movement education is the involvement with students. There are no teams or scores, and a movement education activity often combines several motor skills into a game or objective.

Each and every person has a different view of what physical education really is. “Is it education in sport?” asks Siedentop “Is it fitness education? Is it social development? Is it development through risk and adventure? Is it movement? Instead,” he says, “it is all of these things – and maybe more?” (1998, p.237). Whereas Wuest and Butcher feel that physical activity is “a means to help individuals acquire skills, fitness, knowledge, and attitudes that contribute to their optimal development and well-being” (2003, p.9). I believe that both of these aspects are important when defining physical education. I feel that physical education is a means of movement and social interaction, but also an activity that will help to develop ones