Upon completion of the Kindergarten year, the life-long learner will:
1. Discover their own capabilities through fine and gross motor movements.
2. Use their imagination in rhythmic, creative, and dramatic movement activities.
3. Be exposed to eye-hand and eye-foot coordination skills.
4. Build muscular strength, endurance, and fitness through low organized games.
5. Be aware that safety precautions should be understood and observed throughout participation.
6. Perform skills through auditory, visual, and physical demonstration.
Upon completion of the first year, the life-long learner will:
1. Demonstrate body control in fine and gross motor movements.
2. Use imagination during rhythmic, creative, and dramatic movement activities.
3. Develop primary eye-hand and eye-foot coordination skills.
4. Build muscular strength, endurance, and fitness through low organized games.
5. Be aware that safety precautions should be understood and observed throughout participation.
6. Perform skills through auditory, visual, and physical demonstration.
Upon completion of the second and third year, the life-long learner will:
1. Refine body control within the areas of fine and gross locomotor movements.
2. Explore group rhythmic, creative and dance movement.
3. Refine eye-hand and eye-foot coordination skills.
4. Build muscular strength, endurance, and fitness through intermediate organized games.
5. Be aware that safety precautions should be understood and observed throughout participation.
6. Perform skills through auditory, visual, and physical demonstration.
Upon completion of the fourth and fifth year, the life-long learner will:
1. Master fine and gross locomotor movements.
2. Develop advanced rhythmic and dance movement activities.
3. Master eye-hand and eye-foot coordination skills.
4. Build muscular strength, endurance, and fitness through high level organized games.
5. Be aware that safety precautions should be understood and observed throughout participation.
6. Perform complex level skills through auditory, visual, and physical demonstration.
7. Be introduced to individual and team sports through lead-up activities.
8. Develop self-confidence, initiative, and self-direction
9. Adjust, adapt, and accept each student at their individual capabilities
 
 

1.  Demonstrates competency in motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities.
2.  Demonstrates understanding of movement concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics as they apply to the learning and performance of physical activities.
3.  Participates regularly in physical activity.
4.  Achieves and maintains a health-enhancing level of physical fitness.
5.  Exhibits responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings.
6.  Values physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expressions and/or social interaction.
 
   
A quality physical education programs helps students:
1. Learn how to achieve and maintain physical fitness and healthy lifestyles
2. Explore their unique physical talents
3. Gain an understanding and appreciation of their responsibilities as citizens, and
4. Develop positive character traits that will help them make good decisions about behavior that support their overall well-being."
 
 

Students will:

1. Develop competency in all fundamental movement skills and proficiency in some movement forms.

2. Analyze scientific concepts and principles to understand, evaluate, and enhance movement skill acquisition and performance.

3. Participate in physical activity to achieve and maintain a health enhancing level of physical fitness.

4. Develop responsible and respectful personal social behavior in physical activity settings.

5. Understand that physical activity provides opportunities for enjoyment, challenge, self-expression, social interaction, and employment.
 

Physical Education is defined as:

A broad based comprehensive concept of Physical Education that focuses on teaching lifetime skills and knowledge. It emphasizes individual responsibility for ones own health and fitness. The vehicles it uses are primarily individual and dual activities and includes team sports, as a part of our culture.
 
 

A Quality Physical Education Program will provide:

1. A wide range of knowledge and movement experiences  so each student may develop competencies that are both adaptable and versatile.
2. An opportunity to experience a sense of achievement and develop a positive self-image and self-concept.
3. A learning atmosphere that provides opportunities for all students to analyze, think, observe, create, cooperate, and share
 
 

A Quality Physical Education Program should encourage students to:

1. Participate in physical activity and attain appropriate levels of physical fitness.

2. Develop movement competency.

3. Foster creativity.

4. Emphasize proper safety practices.

5. Motivate expression and motivation.

6. Promote self-understanding and acceptance.

7. Develop the skills of movement, the knowledge of how and why one moves, and the ways in which movement may be organized.

8. Express culturally approved patterns of personal behavior and interpersonal relationships in and through games, sports, and dance.

9. Acquire an appreciation of and a respect for good physical condition, a functional posture, and a sense of personal well being.

10. Nurture an interest and desire to participate in lifetime recreational ports for fitness and enjoyment.
 
 

A Physically Educated Person:

~ Has learned skills necessary to perform a variety of physical activities

~ Is physically fit

~ Does participate regularly in physical activity

~ Knows the implications of and the benefits from involvement in physical activities

~ Values physical activity and its contribution to a healthful lifestyle
 
 

NCLB - Many children will be left behind if they do not:

* Learn how to achieve and maintain health-related fitness and other healthy lifestyle behaviors

* Have opportunities to explore their unique potential

* Gain an understanding and appreciation of their responsibilities as citizens

* Develop character traits to help them make good decisions about positive behaviors that support their well being.