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K-12 Health/PE Coordinator |
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Amanda Fandel Administrative Assistant 742-4400
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Effective health instruction is a cognitive process. Not only do growing young people need to develop the ability to grasp and analyze health information, they also need to examine their own thinking. Students need to be reflective, actively observing and examining their responses to personal and instructional issues. Ultimately, student's attitudes about their health are paramount to the long-term goals of instruction. Effective health instruction includes processes that encourage individuals to make connections between healthy living and personal health experiences. These instructional processes are active and promote personal responsibility, lifelong learning, critical thinking, cooperation and use interdisciplinary approaches. Effective health instruction means healthy behaviors are developed in part through role playing and other skill building activities. Students will need to process a vast amount of health information in their lifetimes. A desire to be well informed and practice skills is an important part of wellness success. Effective health instruction touches one personally. People who have strong long-term health values are people influenced by others who have a high regard for being well. Being well or healthy allows individuals to live more fully and celebrate life to the greatest extent. The health curriculum assumes that instruction will be at the level appropriate for the age and grade of the student. The health instructor is in the best position to define the intellectual level and the depth of instruction most appropriate for his/her students. Therefore, words defining the expected level of thinking and complexity as related to Bloom's Taxonomy are left to the instructor to define. Physical Education Program The philosophy of the ASD Physical Education curriculum is to provide a positive learning environment where all children experience a sequentially-based and developmentally appropriate physical education program. The concepts of life-long movement skills and wellness are creatively provided by a certified physical educator. The result is a physically educated person. |
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