My goal for my health and physical education students is for the students to understand the impact that physical activity and understanding your personal health is in life. I want my students to be able to take what they learn from my class and implement it into their lives outside of school, throughout their entire lifetime. Physical Education is not your typical classroom setting and that is one of the many reasons I love teaching it. Every day is different and the students will surprise you on the new skills they are able to develop.

            As a teacher, I know how important it is to think about all the different types of learning. Many students are not just visual, cognitive or kinesthetics learners. Rather, they are a mixture of all three. I want to be able to show, explain and allow my students to have hands on activities to help develop their way of learning. I find it extremely important to use different strategies, such as the sport education model and the fitness model, to incorporate different aspects of physical education into my teaching, throughout the year. In each of my lessons, I plan to also incorporate forms of differentiation, teaching by invitation and intra task variation. I would like to use as many strategies as possible in order to help as many students as I can.

            I have always had a deep love for physical activity, fitness and sports. Not only did physical education teach me the skills needed to move and perform actions, but it also taught me how to be a team player and work with others. Physical education teaches you, if at first you don’t succeed, try again. I want to instill this thought process into my students because one day these tiny humans will one day be the adults of the world, making it their own.   

            At the end of the year, I want each student to understand the impact that physical activity has on their life and how these concepts apply to life outside the classroom. Physical Education helps enhance stability, locomotor, non-locomotor, and  manipulative functions that are used every day in almost all activities the students will take part in. From writing with a pencil to walking across rocks to cross a stream students need the skills they develop in physical education.

            Sports may not be for everyone but physical education is. George Graham once said, “Athletics are great. But physical education is for every youngster—to help them learn about themselves, learn about their bodies, learn ways to become physically active but not necessarily compete.” George Graham wants to convey that physical educators are not trying to make every student into an athlete that is all about competition. Rather, we are doing our best to create individuals who know how their body works, moves and how important it is for the body and mind to stay physically active.