Advocacy in Physical Education

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Advocacy in Physical Education
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Advocacy, what is it and who is responsible for
it?

• Communication for the purpose of influencing
  others about an idea, issue, or concern that is
  of interest to you

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Types of Advocacy

• Macro Level
• Micro Level

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Begin in your own gym

• If you dont have a program that effectively
  promotes learning then you dont have anything
  for which to advocate!
• effective teaching
• use assessment
• lesson plans
• four learning domains
• alignment with standards

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Ask yourself the following on a daily basis

1. What did my students learn today?
2. Did I prepare a quality lesson that advanced
   student learning? Or did I roll out the ball?
3. Have I contributed to the establishment of a
   progressive and student-centered curriculum? Or
   do I teach only what I like?
4. Did I assess student learning and have I used
   those results to inform students, myself, and
   others? Or do I only use assessment for grading?

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Program Advocacy involves your administrator!

• Invite administrators to your class
• Educate about current best practices
• Have an assessment plan
• Provide appropriate observation tools
• Keep communicating with your administrator

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Start Small

• Get contact information for all students and
  their guardians
• Create a student birthday calendar
• Prepare a webpage and/or newsletter
• Always have a quality lesson
• Invite parents and administrators
• Try to integrate other curricula into P.E..

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Start Small

• Be friendly with everyone
• Visit other teachers classrooms
• Invite the principal to join the physical
  education faculty meetings
• Attend other school events

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Keys to advocacy

• 1. Clearly define goals and objectives
• Goals
• Objectives
• (SpecificMeasureableAttainableRealisticTimebound)

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Keys to advocacy

• 2. Identify your target audience
• WHO are we advocating to?
• Cultivate coalitions with as many entities as
  necessary

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Keys to advocacy

• 3. Gather data for your message
• Physical activity Facts
• Target your message
• Refine your message

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Keys to advocacy

• 4. Create a persuasive message
• Define the problem or situation
• Use bulleted points
• 5 minute rule, elevator pitch
• Avoid inflammatory words
• Answer this why should my child take physical
  education?

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Keys to advocacy

• 5. Identify potential action strategies
• 6. Review and Revise

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Resources

• http//www.shapeamerica.org/advocacy/resources/too
  lkit/
• http//www.shapeamerica.org/advocacy/resources/
• Action for Healthy Kids
• American Heart Association
• Centers for disease control and prevention
  healthy youth