Good Reasons For P.E

As this semester is just taking off I wanted to post this article for everyone to view. This article is short and to the point but it points out very important things; the reasons we are all here. Enjoy!

Lab 1 reflection

The first lab at St. Marys was a wonderful experience. I think myself and my peers all did an awesome job. I feel like we all went in there with positive attitudes and excitement. we were the gym group and it was amazing to be able to present the kids with our games the first day. I think this is going to be an amazing semester here at St. Marys.

Special Olympics

Over the past weekend I volunteered for the Special Olympics on Friday night and Saturday morning. It was an amazing experience to help out and meet the athletes. The athletes were awesome people they were so excited to be there and played the games with all their hearts. I wanted to share how much this experience meant to me and how it really touched me to be able to be apart of this event. 

Virtus

The last two classes have really opened my eyes about the danger that faces children everyday. Of course child molestation isn't anything I didn't know about but now I know how to look for it and protect children from it ever happening to them. The videos we viewed in class made me see that anybody can do this and not to be stereotypical about it, to look for the warning signs in everyone. It also let me see how we as teachers can protect ourselves from this and that the guidelines in place are to protect everyone and are extermly helpful and useful.

Gym time today

Today’s lab really brought me back. I haven’t been in a P.E setting like that in a long time. It reminded me how much I love this field and how important it is in lives of children. The TAs did a wonderful job with their games and really made it an enjoyable time.

Chapter 1

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Fundamental skill development and assessment is so important to our profession and health of our students because it is the building blocks of development. Skill development includes motor, cognitive, and affective domains. Within each domain a different set of skills lay. With assessing these skills we have the power to improve our students life’s in every aspect. We can teach them how to improve on them and guide them in the right direction. With developing these skills our students will learn the importance of physical activity in life. In the motor development domain our students will become skillful movers, knowledgeable movers, and expressive movers. This is the core of our physical education. They learn locomotion, manipulation, and stability skills. It allows them to be physically active and enhances their overall fitness. Within the cognitive domain it is shown that children learn cognitive concept because the learning is fun and active. It also allows children to learn with their hands which can make it easier for them to grasp the concept. The affective domain A.K.A social-emotional development allows us as teachers to help our students become more active and develop a better self-concept, higher self-esteem and stronger social skills. All of this is a very important part of being healthy for our students. It is the building blocks to a healthy life in the long run. They will develop these skills now and in so will give them the motivation to practice and improve on them throughout their lives.

First week!

The first week here at Suny Cortland was a little overwhelming. I’m starting to get into a routine now so everything should start to fall into place. The physical education program seems to be a very challenging program but very fun and exciting at the same time. I was super excited to work with all the kids on Monday during lab and can’t wait to be able to spend more time there.