The development of technology has drastically changed the way we look at physical education. Today we have learned that physical education plays a huge role in our youth and making sure they are participating but, technology has contributed to a secular decline in physical activity. Less and less children are participating in physical activity and more in video games and cell phones. Because of this our nation is becoming unhealthy, contributing to doctors prescribing more exercise as a method to becoming healthier. Another point that influences physical education is age, gender, ethnics, education, and income. Many Physical education teachers have to deal with many different children from all different places. It is extremely important that the teacher know where their students are from and how to try to teach them so they understand and can learn like everyone else. Some children may have learning disabilities and the teacher will have to know how to help this student. Some children may get left out or picked on because of age, race, gender, ect. The teacher needs to make sure that they are not left out or picked on so that this will not play a role later in life of not liking physical education and it taking a bigger effect in later life, like becoming overweight, and being afraid of gyms or working out. The history of physical education that came after WWI was greatly needed. Many men during WWI went into war unfit and could not do proper activities because they were not fit to do them, so physical educators developed conditioning programs for armed forces. “After the war, health statistics had later revealed that the nation was in poor shape 1/3 of the men were physically unfit for service” (Wuest and
First, Physical Education should be a class students should take every year because it increases performance. “Increased time in PE classes can help children's attention and concentration and achievement test scores,” says writer Nanci Hellmich. When students are doing a physical activity, it wakes them up more, and it helps with performance in classes that don’t involve physical activity. Even if students don’t take
One out of every three children in America are considered obese or overweight (“Overweight”). America is at a point to where people want everything easy and fast. Last year, McDonald’s served 69 million customers a day (“Our Story”). These people are at home watching TV on their couches and eating this fast food. I think this is a huge factor to why obesity is at a high. The lack of exercise is a global pandemic. Only three out of ten Americans exercise regularly (“Information”). But for many students, the only exercise they may get is at school in a PE class. I feel like PE is a great class, but gets overlooked as a waste of time. The importance of teaching physical education is taken for granted. We can attain healthy habits, get exercise, and have fun while doing it. I believe physical education classes should be maintained and emphasized more than they are now. Most people view it as just an easy class but in reality, it could benefit our generation in the long run, and help make for a healthier future.
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Did you know that “one out of three children in the United States is considered overweight”? (Miller). In today’s society, more and more students are gaining excessive weight which can lead to even worse internal problems like heart disease which can drastically shorten their life span. With school budget cuts and limited time available for the class, physical education has slowly become more obsolete in today’s educational requirements. If students cannot get the minimum time needed to burn the extra energy found in today’s foods and drinks, the extra fat adds up, and can create a buildup extra weight. With the rise of obesity, simply learning healthy eating and exercises can lead to a better life style later on in life. If physical education
Proponents of physical education often contend their case with these and other similar arguments, but upon closer examination of the physical education system, its true use and effectiveness are highly questionable. Those who argue that physical education is integral to the nation’s health must reexamine the nation in which we live, a nation in which more than one-third of adults are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Pennsylvanian legislation has mandated physical education since 1999, but since 1999, the adult obesity rate has risen by 11%. Regardless of the proponents’ claims, physical education is not having its intended effect on public health. (Note: I am not trying to suggest that physical education is deleterious to public health. I am just showing that physical education has done a negligible job promoting health). Furthermore, physical education consumes an entire class period of a student’s day, a class period which could be spent learning one of many highly important, pertinent 21st century subjects that the Common Core has inexplicably ignored: micro and macro economics, U.S.
Physical Education classes, also known as P.E., phys. ed., or just “gym” classes, are not something many people enjoy. Some people have pretty horrific memories from Middle School, Junior High and/or High School. So, it might not be something students want to repeat during the college experience. That said, there are more than two sides on whether physical education classes should be made mandatory every semester for college students. One side is that they shouldn’t be made mandatory for any college student, any semester. Corollarily physical education classes should be made mandatory for every college student, every semester. Other sides are; some degrees which have a high amount of physical activity should be the only ones required to have physical education classes mandatorily every semester or that physical education classes should be made mandatory, but not ever semester and not for every degree. This essay will focus mainly on the pros and cons of whether mandatory physical education classes should be required for every student, every semester.
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John F Kennedy once said, “Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.” He believed that a person who has conditioned their body will exceed when striving towards intellectual achievements. Parents across America have seen the influence that physical exercise can have on students. After school physical education programs, such as sports, not only condition the students to maintain physical health, they also work with teachers to make sure the mind is also being conditioned through learning. Students who participate in school sports are required to maintain their grades to academic standards to be able to participate in the activity. Even though many people would agree that physical education is important to a student’s health and learning process, schools across America are still suffering budget cuts that directly affect the physical education programs and hinder the amount of resources schools have to educate students about physical education. In some cases programs have been removed from schools entirely due to the tremendous cuts in school funding. Physical education programs in schools should not suffer from budget cuts because they support making positive life choices, the exercise is good for an active brain, and being physically fit is important for children as they grow into adults.
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...n, most of the studies conducted yield positive relationships between a child’s cognitive processes, social skills, and physical development. Although there could be error in the studies and reports due to bias, self-report, and false negative or false positive errors, the overall results conclude that physical activity benefits a child’s mental, social, and physical abilities. Learning key values such as honesty, teamwork and fair play at an early age through physical activity and sports, yields healthy and well rounding individuals. Physical activity and sports participation at a young age can help a child’s growth tremendously, but one should also be cautious of pushing a child too far. Overall, the positive effects of physical activity during childhood triumphs any negative, which can be fixed, and leads to stronger mind, body, and soul.
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Nowadays, in our world wide element’s field of sport activities is a compulsory and needed in our life mainly for the teenager and students in every school or institutions as it such a very important aspect that helping towards the growth of the self confidents and benefits in covering our specifics of mental, social, physical, emotional, physical , mental, spirits, level of attraction in anything new and creativity also moral development. What we can call it is co-curricular or physical education have too many benefits and positive effects. The interesting fact that you need to know is in the country of Australia, physical education courses were first made an important that mainly part of the curriculum in both of government primary and secondary
Playing and getting exercise is crucial to your health and can cut down on childhood obesity which could also help prevent it in adulthood. Exercise, movement, any physical activity will have a direct impact on the behavior and the development of the brain. It’s simple really, increased oxygen flow to the brain aids in focus and function, exercise increases brain neurotransmitters. Any of these that will increase the ability of the brain, is an obvious benefit to learning and growing as a student. Many schools are cutting physical education in order to support a more rigorous academic schedule even though there have been studies to prove this theory
“Physical education plays a critical role in educating the whole student. Research supports the importance of movement in educating both mind and body. Physical education contributes directly to development of physical competence and fitness. It also helps students to make informed choices and understand the value of leading a physically active lifestyle. The benefits of physical education can affect both academic learning and physical activity patterns of students. The healthy, physically active student is more likely to be academically motivated, alert, and successful. … Throughout the school years, quality physical education can promote social, cooperative and problem solving competencies. Quality physical education programs in our