NASPEs Definition of a Physically Educated Person

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NASPEs Definition of a Physically Educated Person
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A Physically Educated Person

• Demonstrates competency in many movement forms
  and proficiency in a few movement forms
• The focus of this standard is developing movement
  competence and proficiency.
• In regard to movement competence, students will
  establish the foundation of motor skills.
• Development of proficiency helps students prepare
  for advanced level performance.

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• Fundamental skills developed over this time
  frame include
• Running
• Skipping
• Throwing
• Striking

• Over the years these skills develop into
  specialized skills such as
• dancing
• throwing a pass
• Catching with a glove

• Students will apply basic skills throughout
  their school years and these skills will be used
  in a variety of leisure and work related
  activities.

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A Physically Educated Person

• Applies movement concepts and principles to the
  learning and development of motor skills

• Uses cognitive information to enhance motors
  skill acquisition and performance.
• In the lower elementary level, the emphasis
  should be placed on movement vocabulary and
  initial application skill concepts.
• In the upper elementary and middle school
  levels, the emphasis is placed on more complex
  concepts along with applying these concepts to
  physical activity situations.
• In the high school level, students should have
  sufficient knowledge in concepts to independently
  use a variety of complex concepts.

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A Physically Educated Person

• Exhibits a physically active lifestyle

• Establishes patterns of regular participation in
  meaningful physical activity.
• Connects what is done in the physical education
  class with the lives of students outside of
  physical education.
• Develops an active, healthy, lifestyle.
• Cognitive understandings develop from an initial
  awareness of cause and effect relationships
  between activity and its immediate and
  identifiable effects on the body.
• Young children should learn to enjoy activity.
• Develop an awareness of opportunities which
  encourage a broad level of participation.

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A Physically Educated Person

• Achieves and maintains a health-enhancing level
  of physical fitness

• Encouraged to develop higher levels of basic
  fitness and physical competence.
• Establishes fitness levels on a personal basis.
• For elementary children, the emphasis is on an
  awareness of fitness.
• Middle school students should understand fitness
  components and how each is developed and
  maintained.
• Secondary students develop an appropriate
  personal fitness that enables them to achieve
  desired levels of fitness.
• Students should accept responsibility for
  personal fitness leading to an active, healthy
  lifestyle.

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A Physically Educated Person

• Demonstrates responsible personal and social
  behavior in physical activity

• Achievement of selfinitiated behaviors that
  promote personal and group success in activity
  settings.

• For lower elementary levels, students should
  have a recognition of classroom rules and
  procedures and a focus on safety.
• For the upper elementary levels, students should
  learn to work independently, with a partner, and
  in small groups.
• Middle school students identify the purposes for
  rules and procedures and become involved in
  decisionmaking processes to establish rules for
  specific activities.

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A Physically Educated Person

• Demonstrates understanding and respect for
  differences among people in physical activity
  settings

• Develops respect for individual similarities and
  differences through physical activity.
• Characteristics of similarities and differences
  include culture, ethnicity, motor
  performance,disabilities, physical
  characteristics (strength, size,shape), gender,
  race, and socio-economic status.
• Elementary students begin to recognize
  individual similarities and differences.
• Middle school students participate cooperatively
  in physical activity.
• High school students are expected to participate
  with all people.

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A Physically Educated Person

• Understands that physical activity provides
  opportunities for enjoyment, challenge,
  self-expression, and social interaction

• An awareness of the intrinsic values.

• Benefits of participation in physical activity
  that provides personal meaning.

• Provides opportunity for self expression
• social interaction
• enjoyable
• challenging
• fun

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• Elementary school children should
• derive pleasure for movement.
• experience challenge and joy as they become
  competent in movement.

• Middle school children physical activity should
  provide
• challenge
• social interaction
• group membership

• High school students should have enjoyment and
  challenges as well as opportunities for self
  expression and social interaction