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Philosophy of Physical Education

My goal of education is to prepare people for life in all its aspects. The big question is then what is life? What do you need to know, when are you ready and who decides you're ready? These questions will be indirectly answered in this philosophy. To prepare for their lives, students should develop themselves as broadly as possible during their school years. P.E., when compared to other classes reveals different aspects of a student's personality. Personally, I see P.E. as a course that contains social, behavior, emotional and mental skills in addition to motor skills. Where as in other courses the focus is more concentrated on the mind and achieving academic successes, P.E. classes should be focused on both the body and mind.
In addition to the physical aspect, emotions, feelings and social structures play a big role in P.E. classes. Students have to deal with feelings of winning, losing and the emotions that those feelings or experiences bring. The interaction between the body and mind is also the explanation why students can be happy and satisfied or sad and disappointed after the P.E. class. My responsibility and one of the goals as a P.E. teacher is to make sure every student feels happy, satisfied and safe while receiving my class. In order to reach my goals my classes are “hands-on”. To develop, a student needs to practice and the opportunity to express feelings, emotions and ideas in his or her own way. As a teacher, I will always try to make students feel comfortable and respected in class. In order to reach that goal I give them the confidence and opportunity to learn as much as possible in their own ways. I try to stimulate the learning of all students, therefore I use different teaching techniques including KTAV aspects. Knowing my students also means knowing how my students learn.

In my opinion, hands on means whenever possible using an appropriate amount of materials to give students the best opportunity possible to practice. In my classes I try to work in small groups. For example, in soccer they will play 5:5 on two fields instead of playing in two big teams on one big field.

My expectations in class relate very closely to the way I assess students. I count class participation for 50%. This includes listening actively, responding on teachers questions, participating in class discussions, following instructions, recognizing and respecting own and other's skills, limitations and needs, and the effort students show. Skills and playing in the games are each 25% of the grade. Assessing of skills is how students perform the skills we have been practicing in class. Assessing how they play includes being able to play independent, knowing and applying the (school) rules of the game, giving everybody a change to participate, getting into the right positions, coaching and/or helping other students and playing fair.
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