The President's Challenge

The President's Challenge is a fitness challenge that I'm going to put my students through. The challenge consist of pull-ups, shuttle run, the mile run, sit ups, push ups, and a v sit reach. I was put through this challenge in high school and really liked it. My students have been conditioning twice a week to get ready for it.

Participation

There has been an ongoing argument over grading participation in a Physical Education class. I believe that it needs to be graded because that's what I want my students to do in class is participate. I'm wanting to know your thoughts.

Literacy

Literacy can be something that is hard to incorporate into a PE setting. One way that I have found to help engage students is to post vocab words on a chalk board and have them use the words throughout the week in PE. This has been a help on their vocab test because their over scores are now up to 94%. Does anyone else have any ideas?

Obesity

The obesity rate in the United States is an issue that is hitting the nations youth at an alarming rate. How much time should an Elementary, Middle School, or High School student spend in a Physical Education class daily?

Skill Testing

In most Physical Education classes students are put through skills test. For example during a volleyball unit a student may be asked to serve ten times and can be graded on how may times out of ten the volleyball lands in bounds during their ten attempts at serving. Is this a fair way to test a student?

Swearing

Please post some comments about how you handle swearing in the classroom. I just want to know some of your tactics. Are there different standards in the PE setting? Say you have an intense game of pickle ball unfolding and you have an intense student who misses a serve, is this any different?

Physical Discipline

What do you all think is too much physical discipline in a PE setting?

I know you can make students run, do push-ups, and sit-ups for behavioral problems or being late and this is something else you can't do in a regular classroom setting. What do you all think is appropriate?

All About Chance

I am currently living in Vale, Oregon and teaching Physical Education at both the middle and secondary levels. I also spend time coaching the high school wrestling team and spend most weekends hanging out at wrestling matches. Along with my teaching duties, I am also working on my Master's degree through EOU.

Shape Up Across Oregon

I am joining forces with several other teachers at the middle school where I teach and we are having all the students participate in the "Shape Up Across Oregon" program. We have modified it slightly to meet our time schedule, and have also included a reading piece in which our students can also "Read Across Oregon" by reading up to 90 minutes per day. This is in addition to the 90 minutes a day that they can record for their daily exercise routine. They may count their PE time, but must also include activities outside the classroom in order to make it clear across Oregon in the alloted 30 day time period.

If you have any questions about how we are implementing this program in our school, please feel free to contact me.