Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Prototypical Experiences
I am a huge fan of the notion that everything I learn or read has or could have a real world application. If it does not have a real world application then I do not see the reason why I should even waist my time. Even algebra and calculus have a real world application to computer programing, etc. My content is health and PE. This is very specifically related to my favorite hobby, triathlons. I use the health side to modify my nutrition and balance of a healthy lifestyle to modify my daily habits. I also use the PE side for the correct biomechanics of running and creating fitness programs for strength training. These principles that I live my life by will be very easy to convey to my students by showing why everyone should live healthy and why we should also exercise.
It is very important for students to feel a sense of purpose for learning different ideas and this will be fun to show what students can do with health and PE. The students can be the best all state athlete or a student who has never run a lap in their life. Both students will (hopefully) be able to see what living a healthy life that consists of and how regular exercise can set them up for success today and their future. It will just be my job to make sure that the students feel that I am teaching to them specifically by using their own experiences of different sports and habits as my basis for establishing a connection to teach the students. The national standards also make it very easy to break down the different aspects of a healthy lifestyle in order to teach it to the students in a way that they can understand.
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Yeah I think it's really important to promote a healthy life to your students. It's especially great if you can be that example to them to show them how they can do it. I don't think that many students make the connection that they can take these life skills from their health/P.E. classes. I think they mostly think that it's just fun and they get out of real classes. However, this is so important that they learn how to be healthy and apply what they learn in their lives.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what Collen said...all of my PE experiences were, "Here, let's go swimming," or "here, let's play dodgeball." But we had not discussions about how a variety of activities could be used to help us promote a sustained, healthy lifestyle, when really--in the end, that should be the goal of PE. Thanks for your posting.
ReplyDeleteAmen, Scott. I am not sure if you are copying my thoughts or what.... but yes, I totally agree with Collen and Amy. There is so much more to health and P.E. than we learned in High School. It is important for us as future educators to take advantage of the things we have learned and pass it on.
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