Welcome to the landing page for
East Rock School's
PHYSICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
COACHES GLICKMAN & ROWAN WELCOME YOU!
What you will find on this page:
1. National PE Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes
2. Planned PE Curriculum
3. Grading Rubric
1. National Standards and Grade-Level Outcomes for K-12 Physical Education
The goal of Physical Education is to develop physically literate individuals who have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to enjoy a lifetime of healthful physical activity. To pursue a lifetime of healthful physical activity, physically literate individuals have learned the skills necessary to participate in a variety of physical activities, know the implications of and the benefits from involvement in various types of physical activities, participate regularly in physical activity, are physically fit, and value physical activity and its contributions to a healthful lifestyle.
New Haven Public Schools have adopted these National Standards into the framework of our Physical Education curriculum:
Standard 1: The physically literate individual demonstrates competency in a variety of motor skills and movement patterns.
Standard 2: The physically literate individual applies knowledge of concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics related to movement and performance.
Standard 3: The physically literate individual demonstrates the knowledge and skills to achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical activity and fitness.
Standard 4: The physically literate individual exhibits responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others.
Standard 5: The physically literate individual recognizes the value of physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and/or social interaction.
Source: http://www.shapeamerica.org/standards/pe/upload/Grade-Level-Outcomes-for-K-12-Physical-Education.pdf
The goal of Physical Education is to develop physically literate individuals who have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to enjoy a lifetime of healthful physical activity. To pursue a lifetime of healthful physical activity, physically literate individuals have learned the skills necessary to participate in a variety of physical activities, know the implications of and the benefits from involvement in various types of physical activities, participate regularly in physical activity, are physically fit, and value physical activity and its contributions to a healthful lifestyle.
New Haven Public Schools have adopted these National Standards into the framework of our Physical Education curriculum:
Standard 1: The physically literate individual demonstrates competency in a variety of motor skills and movement patterns.
Standard 2: The physically literate individual applies knowledge of concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics related to movement and performance.
Standard 3: The physically literate individual demonstrates the knowledge and skills to achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical activity and fitness.
Standard 4: The physically literate individual exhibits responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others.
Standard 5: The physically literate individual recognizes the value of physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and/or social interaction.
Source: http://www.shapeamerica.org/standards/pe/upload/Grade-Level-Outcomes-for-K-12-Physical-Education.pdf
2. Planned Curriculum
Kindergarten through Fourth Grade: Our Kindergarten through fourth grade students are a wonderful and energetic group. During the first years of school the elementary students will explore physical movement and apparatus while we strive, as educators, to foster a deep love of play. We structure our lessons around individual, partner, and small station work. Starting in third and fourth grade, we incorporate more competitive-like game environments while the main focus remains on building a solid skill foundation. The units the students will participate in include, but are not limited to, the following: Locomotor Movements, Nonlocomotor Movements, Spatial Awareness, Balance, Creative Rhythms & Dance, Gymnastics/Tumbling, Throwing & Catching Skills, Fitness (including the CT Physical Fitness Assessment in grades 3 & 4), Striking Skills (using paddle, racket, golf, baseball, & floor hockey implements), Volleying Skills, Scooters, Basketball Skills, Soccer Skills, Jump Rope, Hula Hoop, Track & Field Skills, & Cooperative Games (tag games, parachute, team building games, etc.).
Fifth through Eighth Grade: The fifth through eighth grade students are a genuine and caring bunch of upper-elementary and middle school kids. During fifth grade PE classes the students begin to learn the framework (i.e. offense and defense, game strategy, etc.) and skills of team sports, and continue to build on those concepts and and sports skills well into the eighth grade. We want to inspire the students to maintain a high level of physical fitness, to create a vast store of exercise knowledge, and instill a passion for being active well into high school and beyond. At East Rock, our fifth through eighth grade students will participate in a variety of different sports. The list of units we teach is vast but is not limited to the following: Ultimate Games (Frisbee, Handball, Speedball), Fitness (including Fitness Testing), Soccer, Floor Hockey, Basketball, Volleyball, Badminton, Cooperative Games, Track & Field, Kickball/Smashball/Matball, & Flag Football. We like to introduce novel games and are working hard this year to offer small samplings of other sports we do not have time to dedicate an entire unit to.
In addition to our regular physical education units, three times a year - once the fall, mid-year, and spring - the Connecticut Physical Fitness Assessment is administered to the third through eighth grade students. The Fitness Test, as we like to call it, measures an individual's muscular endurance, muscular strength, cardio-respiratory endurance, and flexibility. The four tests are: curl-ups, push-ups, PACERs (i.e. run/jog test), and the sit-and-reach. The 4 fitness test components are reviewed at the start of each class, as well as a myriad of other awesome fitness exercises.
Please be engaged in what your student is learning in Physical Education by asking him or her what they learned or practiced on PE days.
Fifth through Eighth Grade: The fifth through eighth grade students are a genuine and caring bunch of upper-elementary and middle school kids. During fifth grade PE classes the students begin to learn the framework (i.e. offense and defense, game strategy, etc.) and skills of team sports, and continue to build on those concepts and and sports skills well into the eighth grade. We want to inspire the students to maintain a high level of physical fitness, to create a vast store of exercise knowledge, and instill a passion for being active well into high school and beyond. At East Rock, our fifth through eighth grade students will participate in a variety of different sports. The list of units we teach is vast but is not limited to the following: Ultimate Games (Frisbee, Handball, Speedball), Fitness (including Fitness Testing), Soccer, Floor Hockey, Basketball, Volleyball, Badminton, Cooperative Games, Track & Field, Kickball/Smashball/Matball, & Flag Football. We like to introduce novel games and are working hard this year to offer small samplings of other sports we do not have time to dedicate an entire unit to.
In addition to our regular physical education units, three times a year - once the fall, mid-year, and spring - the Connecticut Physical Fitness Assessment is administered to the third through eighth grade students. The Fitness Test, as we like to call it, measures an individual's muscular endurance, muscular strength, cardio-respiratory endurance, and flexibility. The four tests are: curl-ups, push-ups, PACERs (i.e. run/jog test), and the sit-and-reach. The 4 fitness test components are reviewed at the start of each class, as well as a myriad of other awesome fitness exercises.
Please be engaged in what your student is learning in Physical Education by asking him or her what they learned or practiced on PE days.
3. Grading Rubric
A student begins each class with 100 points; it is up to the student to keep them. The attached rubric explains our 10 grading areas and the letter grade associated with each. A student can lose points if they fail to display the expected behaviors in the highest scoring column - the first column ("5" for K-4 and "A" for 5-8).
A student earns a daily PE grade based on the attached rubric. Final grades are based on an average of all the daily PE grades. We review this rubric on the first day of PE and throughout the year so that students understand what is expected, and we encourage parents/guardians to review the rubric at home, too.
A student earns a daily PE grade based on the attached rubric. Final grades are based on an average of all the daily PE grades. We review this rubric on the first day of PE and throughout the year so that students understand what is expected, and we encourage parents/guardians to review the rubric at home, too.
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