"BEST PRACTICES" REPRESENTATIVE OF THE

"NEW" PHYSICAL EDUCATION• Lesson content addresses one or more district, state or national

standards• Lesson content identifies specific learning objectives for varied ability

levels of students• Assessment of student learning is conducted to determine if students

have achieved lesson objectives• Fitness is “woven” throughout lessons and units of instruction• Technology is utilized to augment students’ learning, monitor student

performance, & to assess teaching & program effectiveness.• Students are challenged to use higher-order thinking (i.e., answer

meaningful questions; problem-solve)• Students are challenged to work independently and cooperatively

with classmates• Students are challenge to be responsible for their own learning

Instant Activities• Help students to become

physically engaged in moderate to vigorous physical activity with minimal instruction

• Help students to focus• Reinforce personal/social

responsibility

Establishing a Management System

• Routines - customary way of handling a situation- used for frequently occurring events

What are some of the common “routines” you

need to be aware of?• Locker room – when to enter; how long;

permission to enter during class• Before class – entrance, where to go first,

attendance procedures• Lesson-related: what areas of gym are

out-of-bounds, stopping & starting cues, getting journals out & putting them away

• End-of-Lesson• Miscellaneous: how to handle late arrivals;

injuries, bathroom, fire alarms

RULESGeneral expectations

for behavior in a setting

Guidelines for Development-developed cooperatively-state positively-made explicit to students (posted)-reinforced consistently & fairly-few in number

Guidelines for Maintaining Cooperation of

Students??

What are they…?

Hellison’s Levels of Personal/Social Responsibility

A system of teaching strategies designed to movestudents from lower to higher levels ofresponsibility• Make students aware of appropriate behaviors

in relation to behavior goals• Provide students with opportunities to set

personal goals for behavior change• Establish consequences for both positive &

negative behavior to encourage positive growth• Include students in group processes designed

to share “TEACHER POWER”

Toward Self-Direction• Involve students in decision

making• Resolve conflicts through

discussion• Use role playing to communicate

concepts