The physically educated person

A physically educated person:

HAS learned skills necessary to perform a variety of physical activities

- Moves using concepts of body awareness, space awareness, effort, and relationships

- Demonstrates competence in a variety of manipulative, locomotor, and nonlocomotor skills

- Demonstrates competence in combinations of manipulative, locomotor, and nonlocomotor skills performed individually and with others

- Demonstrates competence in many different forms of physical activity.

- Demonstrates proficiency in a few forms of physical activity

- Has learned how to learn new skills

 

IS physically fit

 

- Assesses, achieves, and maintains physical fitness

- Designs safe personal fitness programs in accordance with principles of training and conditioning

 

DOES participate regularly in physical activity

 

- Participates in health-enhancing physical activity at least three times a week

- Selects and regularly participates in lifetime physical activities

 

KN OWS the implications of and the benefits from involvement in physical activities

 

- Identifies the benefits, costs, and obligations associated with regular participation in physical activity

- Recognizes the risk and safety factors associated with regular participation in physical activity

- Applies concepts and principles to the development of motor skills

- Understands that wellness involves more than being physically fit

- Knows the rules, strategies, and appropriate behaviors for selected physical activities

- Recognizes that participation in physical activity can lead to multi cultural and international understanding

- Understands that physical activity provides the opportunity for enjoyment, self-expression, and communication

 

VALUES physical activity and its contributions to a healthful lifestyle

 

- Appreciates the relationships with others that result from participation in physical activity

- Respects the role that regular physical activity plays in the pursuit of lifelong health and well being

- Cherishes the feelings that result from regular participation in physical activity

 

UNIT VIII

 

SELF-ASSESSMENT TEST # 2

 

These tasks are designed to assist you in determining if you have mastered the materials and competencies presented in the above studied information.

 

1. Describe the consequences to a physical education and sport program if no objectives to be achieved by the program’s participants were stated.

 

2. You are in attendance at a budget hearing called to determine whether your program, be it a school program, community agency program, or corporate fitness program, will be allocated much-needed additional funds. You are asked to tell why physical fitness, motor skill development, cognitive development, and affective development objectives are important objectives of physical education and sport. How do you respond to the comment that the only objective of physical education and sport is the development of fitness?

 

3. Survey the sports Departments of your university to determine what priority they would give to the objectives of physical education and sport. When possible, the instructor of your class should assign one or two class members to interview a specific Department member. The results of this survey of most of the University Department members should be reported to the class.

 

4. Summarize what you cider to be the characteristics of a physically educated person.

 

5. Discuss why the conceptual approach to teaching physical education is important in view of the emphasis on lifelong learning. Identify the concepts for physical education and sport objectives for a specific population, that is, preschoolers, adolescents, adults, or elderly.

 

UNIT IX