The Effects Of Physical Education On A Student 's Outlook And Desire

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

First of all, students do not have much knowledge about the different fitness components; they do not understand the relation between the fitness components and health. If students acquire the background knowledge about fitness, it could improve the class engagement and motivation, and increase the independent drive to exercise. Second barrier to students’ achievement is the lack of motivation to be active, and even more difficult, to specific fitness activities, such as sit-ups and push-ups. In today’s society, students spend more time sitting in front a screen and less time moving. Parent and school today have more responsibility making sure the children get enough physical activity. According to the New York Times (2016), “early school physical education (PE) programs can make a significant difference, and the earlier these routines are learned the more likely they will be carried forth into a healthy adulthood”. Another barrier that prevents students’ success is the loss of instructional time due to discipline problems. The classes are too big, with many diverse students with individual problems, which are difficult to address when these issues are from very different backgrounds. Finally, there is not enough support from home affecting not only physical education, but

I drag myself to the gym several times a week. The drive to Healthbridge is agonizing because most of time, especially in bone chilling weather and when I’m working thirty hours a week on top of school, I rather be curled up in bed reading or catching up on my latest Netflix addiction Shameless. But exercising is important, and I try to squeeze in a good workout in between the several other things sucking up my time. I’m a biomedical science major; I understand the science behind why exercise is good for the body, but I also have the common sense to understand that the way physical education is taught is not intense enough for students to benefit. For example, today we pulled each other around the gym on towel. . .what are the students getting

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,

There are many different reasons as to why individuals choose to participate in exercise, whether it is due to athletics, weight control, or behavior. This study is used to determine the difference in motivation levels between college athletes at Kansas Wesleyan University (KWU) and those who do not play sports at KWU. The health benefits of exercise are widely known but rarely put into use. The lack of physical activity has grown to become a problem in college-aged students, even to the point where a common phrase of “Freshman Forty” has become dominant. It seems the transition from high school to college leaves former athletes unaware of how to exercise without a sport or coach telling them what to do and how to do it. Motivation levels could be a determining factor as to why individuals choose to partake in exercise or are lacking in that area.

Limited Physical Education: According to data from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), in 2011 only 51.8 % of high school students were enrolled in physical education classes, and only 28.4% attended physical education class daily (7). Also, it is found that as student go on to a higher grade, their participation in physical activity goes on decreasing due to increased burden of studies. In higher grades, it becomes difficult for students to manage their time between school, assignments and outdoor activities(7). In US, the current problem is that 37% students do not participate in vigorous physical

Consequently, the announcement does not provide enough information regarding the exactly amount of student that are not doing any physical activity outside the school and that depend on the physical education classes to learn how to exercise their bodies. Therefore, since it is not clearly stated how many students are engaged in only the physical education classes, the decision of eliminating all physical class education could be damaging for the education and the physical health of some

Nowadays, colleges are building gyms and hiring personal trainers for their students to help students get a healthy college life. Exercise is actually not only part of our health concern, but also part of students’ college life. There are a lot of information for students to know about exercise. Students always get too many options when they go to the gym but that doesn’t mean students can get workout in whatever the way they like. Reports shows that many students will go to exercise at least 2 days a week. But there are students who will stop their exercise because they get bored of their daily routine. There are also students who do not like exercise. Many things happened before the exercise, during the exercise and after the exercise. If

In recent times, many people suffer from lack of exercise, because of studying and working. Especially, students need to do many exercises, such as basketball, tennis, or football, for growing. For this reason, many schools organized sports classes; however, I think that students do not need to participate in school’s sports class because some students, who do not relish sports, get a stress from this program.

Fitness in most schools is generalized to a class, called Physical Education also know as P.E. and besides recess this class will be the only time these students will exercise majority of their days. More often than not the students who actually participate in P.E. are those who are more “genetically gifted” while others are more reluctant to participate, due to many reasons such as being overweight, lacking of abilities or coordination, fear of being tormented or bullied by fellow classmates. This causes many students to do only the minimum amount of work in order to pass this class. While Physical Education is a required class for all students to take, most did not want to participate in this course. Acknowledging this

counts? How does motivation and physical activity differ by grade and gender? Based on the information obtained in the study, results for the first research question revealed that when students viewed the physical education learning environment as one that is task or mastery-oriented the student in turn viewed participating in physical education positively. Results also revealed that there was a connection with student insight of the learning climate and attitudes of the student as opposed to self-determination. Results for the second question revealed that associations with attitude, self-determination, and learning climate during the 24-hour pedometer count were not strong. Results from the third research question confirmed results from previous research, that physical activity levels and student motivation decreases after grade six. Results from the pedometer count further confirmed the theory that physical activity declines in grade six. Further studies concluded that gender plays a role in physical activity levels. According to the pedometer counts, boys achieved a greater amount of steps than girls, thus confirming that boys reach a higher level of physical activity than their opposite counterparts. The authors acknowledged that the findings reported with gender levels were consistent with other research conducted in this area.

Individual physical education is important on many levels of health. Being fit can have many positive outcomes in life. Two of these are decreasing risks of being ill, and the ability to get around and move easier. In our society today, physical fitness is becoming more and more rare, causing obesity and more health problems in the world. Obesity is one of the main causes for death in the United States of America. Creating eating and exercising habits as a child and young adult will transfer over into the life of an older adult. Whether these habits are good or bad, they will continue for the majority of life. If these eating and exercising habits are bad, they could possibly lead into an unstable future, causing possible life trauma to loved ones. Obesity is the number one concern from parents to their children, topping drug abuse. Two-thirds of the American population that are 20 years old or older are considered overweight or obese. Our society needs to change their eating habits or this number will rise at increasing rates. Individual physical education will help us strive as Americans to be healthy, and have a longer life span average.

“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

Teachers can be pro-active in how they incorporate physical movement into many classroom lessons keeping in mind that it needs to be an enjoyable activity that is been planned with diversity in mind. These lessons can be centred on body image, weight control, nutrition and the importance of physical activity as part of the school curriculum to assist in addressing and preventing obesity (McDevitt and Ormrod, 2010).

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