Physical Education Interview Question:

As you know many of our teachers and parents don't think learning occurs in PE. Convince us that this happens and how you can demonstrate that learning will occur in your PE Class?

Submitted by: Muhammad

Physical education is not the same as recess. Students have skills and abilities that they learn and are assessed on in physical education. As a teacher, I design lesson plan based on State and National Standards aimed at demonstrating the learning taking place in lessons. Aspects of a unit in physical education such as a pre and post test help to exhibit the skills that students learn. Just like any classroom subject (such as math for example) students may enter the addition unit of a math class not knowing how to add numbers together. After learning how to add numbers, students take a post test in which students can show their level of understanding. The same is true for physical education. Students may come into a basketball unit with little to no understanding on how to dribble a basketball. By the end of the unit, students are assessed on their dribbling ability and are able to show their level of understanding through their performance of the skill.
Submitted by: Muhammad