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Health Benefits Of Physical Education In Schools

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Muscular Fitness – Builds strong muscles and endurance. Heart & Lunge Health – Improves blood pressure and aerobic fitness. This is because quality physical education doesn’t just help students achieve regular physical activity in the moment.

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Evidence Based Practices In Education

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Physical education provides students with a planned, sequential, K-12 standards-based program of curricula and instruction designed to develop motor skills, knowledge and behaviors for active living, physical fitness, sportsmanship, self-efficacy and emotional intelligence.”

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Physical Activity vs Physical Education

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Students can often opt out of middle and high school physical education classes. For example, if they participate in sports, marching band, or prove they participate in some other type of physical activity, they don’t have to take PE. This is where the two terms can get most commonly confused.

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Understanding Motivational Theories in Physical Education

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Sean Fullerton is a former secondary physical education teacher and current Ph.D. student at the University of New Mexico in the Health, Exercise, and Sports Science Department. In this article, Sean explores motivational theories in physical education. Use modified forms of fitness assessments to match ability levels (e.g.