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As a Physical education teacher it is my job to teach students about how to be healthy in their everyday lives. I specifically want to teach students in a high school setting where physical education is sometimes undervalued as just playing dodgeball in the gym. As a future educator in this field I value the belief that health, and personal fitness should be taught with the same importance as math or English class. I believe this because we live in a world where obesity rates are sky rocketing, kids are

Newton’s first law of motion states that an object in motion will remain in motion, while an object at rest will remain at rest unless acted upon by another force. This seems to be true with humans as well because it is more likely that a person will remain active in their later years if they remain to be active through the critical time of their late teens and twenties. Because a major portion of this age category is in college, it is crucial for universities and community colleges to provide physical education to help students achieve and maintain a standard level of physical and mental fitness outside and inside the classroom.

Physical education classes are not enjoyed by all, in fact, some students do their best to get out of the class each day, but without this class, students would sit in school for seven hours a day with the only exercise being walking from class to class. While changing clothes and possibly getting sweaty may not seem productive for students who have spent an hour doing their hair, or feel awkward changing in front of others, this class provides positive ways of fighting obesity, releasing energy, retaining more academically, and learning discipline. Thus, students should be required to take physical education courses in high school.

S. Surgeon General has declared childhood obesity to be an “epidemic” with significant adverse health consequences, including vascular disease and Type 2 diabetes that significantly raise health care costs for youth.” (The Impact of Physical Education 3) “The U.S. Surgeon General attributes the rise in childhood obesity, in part to, school cutbacks in Physical Education (PE), and urges all school systems to mandate daily PE that last at least one hundred and fifty minutes per week for elementary schoolchildren.” (The Impact of Physical Education 3) Research shows exercise aids children in maintaining a healthy body weight, strong and healthy muscles, strong bones and joints, improves sleep, school attendance is improved, self-esteem is better, and they are less likely to develop anxiety and depression. Those are just a few benefits of physical activity. Schools require subjects such as Math, Science, English, and Social Studies in order for children to graduate. Therefore, physical education should be a required course. Not only will adding physical education requirements help children physically but also, studies show that exercise helps with brain stimulation, which will help with test score and understanding in the classroom. Physical education will not only help with obesity but also improve some other problems schools deal with because of obese

I think that the kids need to learn how to stay fit. The kids get shortage of exercise during their school day. Therefor the students need to get physical movement during their day. Physical education provides the students with varieties of workouts for the kids. The students love to go to PE because they get to be with their friends and they get learning they need to get about their body. Being mobile is vital to these kids they like active and they would be more alert in class.

A lack of Physical education at most school does nothing but make things worse when it comes to teaching kids how to stay healthy and physically fit. Physical Education is not a required course in all U.S. states. In fact, the only state that it is required is the state of Illinois, but only 45 minutes per week is required by the state and it’s recommended that children and teens get at a minimum 1 hour of physical activity a day, leaving the children and teens to take responsibility and exercise themselves; and with healthy eating and exercising habits obviously not being taught at home this presents a

In the article “Play” by the author Nellie McCaslin, McCaslin talks about play and how play is expressed in different ways. Some of the ways are through theatre, children, sports, rituals and theories. McCaslin discusses is, “All of us recognize pay in the young, but a precise definition of it eludes us, perhaps because play takes many forms and can move in opposing directions” (McCaslin 39).

Play can be seen taking action at every point of the human experience. The art of play could be seen practiced by court jesters in the middle ages. Similar to court jester modern humans practice play through stand up comedy. however, in modern time play can be practiced through, the creation of playful spaces. Playful spaces allow the individual to let their creative juices flow which leads to innovations. A tool that contributes to play is surrealism by permitting people to step out of the boundaries of reality and rational thinking. The art of play is vital to all humans, but the art of play is lost once people reach adulthood. The professors in the presentation state that "to be human is to play." I agree play is vital to all humans, but I believe it is unobtainable in today's busy society.

No one should have to face humiliation every time they walk through the gym doors. Some students find gym class a fun escape from other academic classes, while others find it absolutely dreadful. Learning physical education can create hatred towards exercise and lower a student’s self-esteem rather than improve it. For athletic students, gym class is a breeze while for less athletic students it can be quite the challenge. Many adolescents have disabilities that can limit their physical activities,

On week 8, I learned about something called “play”. Sure it is the word we are kind of familiar with, but instead, that is not the thing I get used to it. Play, here as professor talked about, is a way to enhance our ability to creative. It was my first time to have the awareness of how play could help us become socially adept as well as cope with our stress. On this week’s lecture, I also learned about different kinds of play, one of which impressed me: the transformative play, from a video I just saw the people on the video how to heal themselves, overcoming the hardness of realities from their bad memories and experiences through painting, playing. They smiled while they were playing.

Play is the foundation stone of children’s healthy and productive lives (Oliver & Klugman, 2002) and is also a significant means of child’s learning and development (Zigler, Singer & Bishop-

“Physical education hopes to accomplish, to engage all students, not just the athlete elite, in fun activities that will instill a lifelong commitment to fitness.” (Johnson, 264). Physical education in the classroom can be a vital steeping stone to the way that teenagers think about fitness. Lifelong fitness is something that everyone should be guaranteed, it mainly depends on the experience that a teenager has. Like many other subjects in school, the

Physical education is defined nowadays as a “systematic instruction in sports, exercises, and hygiene given as part of a school or college program” (Park). When most people think of the term “physical education” they think of it as “a broad, inclusive term comprising the fields of physical education, health education, safety education, athletics, recreation, dance education, kinesiology and so on” (Zeigler 1). It may sometimes be referred to as physical training or gym class and mainly is taught in grades kindergarten all to the way up to your senior year in high-school in the United States. The history of physical education dates way back to the Greek and Roman times and has slowly evolved into what it is now today. There is a

Healthy students are in fact better learners, according to Author Susan Telljohann of Health Education: Elementary and Middle School Applications. Students who participate in daily exercise or in a gym class are shown to have better academic performances. It is encouraged that students have at least 60 minutes of vigorous exercise everyday. In 2007, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation reported that only 36% of children received the recommended amount of exercise. Numerous schools are decreasing the amount of time students get to play and increase the amount of time sitting in class learning. It is a fact that young students only have an attention span of 15 to 20 minutes before they start to zone out of the lesson. Students do need to take breaks and to get up and move. When students exercise it has shown to increase memory retention and academic performance (Telljohann). Numerous schools are also taking away recess for students to enhance the amount of time spent in the classroom, and as a punishment for bad behavior. I believe it is wrong to remove all physical activity from a schools curriculum to try and make students sit longer through lessons. I believe schools need to keep gym class and exercise in their schools curriculum because it does improve student’s retention and academic performance.

Throughout the history of civilization, education has been an important tool in shaping an individual as well as the society that the individual is a part of. In the older civilizations, only the elite upper class had access to education. This kept these people at the top of the social ladder, and suppressed the common people who did not have access to the same education as the nobles. We have come a long way since then, with every child having access to a free high school degree. However, there is still some inequality in this modern education system that has similarities to the old injustices. In this day and age, a college degree is a great start for a young adult starting to enter the work force. According to a study conducted by Pew