PHYISICAL EDUCATION

• Physical Education Teachers are responsible for educating students in health, fitness, and sports in a K-12 school environment
• Physical Education teachers teach students to become 'Physically Educated' individuals
• Physical Education aims to offer all students an opportunity to enhance their physical well-being and develop physical skills and knowledge in health and fitness concepts
• Physical Education teachers follow age-appropriate developmental guidelines and provide a positive and safe learning environment for students
• Physical Education teachers provide a wide array of developmentally appropriate games and activities for students
• Physical Education teachers engage colleagues, parents, and the community through health and wellness programs
• Physical Education teachers nurture students' cognitive, physical, and social development
• Physical Education teachers collaborate with stakeholders like school staff, parents, and the community to provide a variety of physical activity opportunities
• Physical Education teachers serve as role models for students and demonstrate trustworthiness, integrity, and respect for others
• Physical Education teachers maintain professional etiquette by dressing appropriately, communicating effectively, and using research-based materials for instruction
• Physical Education teachers commit to lifelong learning and contribute to the profession through professional development activities and mentoring
• Physical Activity Facilitators are expanding their role to meet the needs and interests of the entire population
• The role of a Physical Activity Facilitator includes conducting regular physical activities and a host of activities within the educational organization
• Physical Activity Facilitators can be broadly divided into four parts:

  • Service Program
  • Intramural Program
  • Extramural Program
  • Fitness and Recreational Programs
• Service Program:

  • Emphasizes instructional aspect
  • Provides knowledge about physical education, health, hygiene, nature, environment, sociological, biological, and psychological principles of physical education
• Intramural Program:

  • Provides opportunity to develop skills through physical activities within a group, club, society, community, village, or institution
• Extramural Program:

  • Provides opportunity for interaction through competition between groups, clubs, societies, communities, villages, and institutions
• Fitness and Recreational Program:

  • Provides fun, thrill, action, activity, and skill to individuals to meet their individual needs of fitness and wellbeing
• Activities included in physical education programs:

  • Athletics: running, jumping, throwing
  • Individual Games: table tennis, badminton, squash, etc.
  • Team Games: hockey, football, kabaddi, kho-kho, cricket, etc.
  • Combative and Self Defensive Games: boxing, judo, wrestling, fencing, horse riding, etc.
  • Aquatics: swimming, diving, water polo, etc.
  • Minor Games/Free Play: carom, Chinese checkers, chess, dodgeball, etc.
  • Gymnastics: Roman rings, vaulting horse, parallel bars, etc.
  • Corrective and Rehabilitative Exercises: exercises prescribed by a doctor for defect or injury correction
• • Folk Dances: Gidha, bhangra, jhumer, garbha, etc.
  • Traditional Exercises: Dand-baithaks, malkhamb, pyramids, etc.
  • Recreational Activities: games and activities for relaxation and proper utilization of leisure time
  • Adventurous Activities: excursions, tours, trips, camps, mountaineering, hiking, trekking, etc.
  • Demonstrations: drills, march pasts, formations, etc.
• An Early Years Physical Activity Facilitator works with children aged 3-8 years old
• It is important for Early Years Physical Activity Facilitators to select or design age-appropriate activities
• Activity Name: Jumping Monkeys

  • Aim: To make children practice jumping skills
  • Infrastructure Required: Playground/Indoors
  • Props & Equipment Required: Cones/Saucers, Flat rings, Hula hoops, Rope ladder, Low hurdles
  • Class Size: Large class size of 40-50
  • How to Proceed:
  • Level 1:
  • Teach children how to jump and land
  • Practice simple jumps and one-foot jumps
  • Create circuits with hula hoops, low hurdles, and rope ladder
• Activity Name: Movement Skills

  • Aim: To learn different locomotor skills with the idea of personal space management
  • Infrastructure Required: Playground
  • Props & Equipment Required: Soft balls, Cones
  • Class Size: Large class size of 40-50
  • How to Proceed:
  • Level 1:
  • Divide children into two groups for running activities
  • Use shoulder ribbons for team identification
  • Conduct running and ball-related activities
• Activity Name: Throwing with force

  • Aim: To practice throwing skills and the importance of force
  • Infrastructure Required: Playground
  • Props & Equipment Required: Cones/Saucers, Soft balls, Shoulder ribbons, Flat rings
  • Class Size: Large class size of 40-50
  • How to Proceed:
  • Level 1:
  • Practice throwing balls at increasing distances
  • Divide class into teams for throwing activities
• Activity Name: Kick the ball

  • Aim: To practice kicking a ball
  • Infrastructure Required: Playground
  • Props & Equipment Required: Soft balls, Cones/Saucers, Training arch
  • Class Size: Large class size of 40-50
  • How to Proceed:
  • Level 1:
  • Teach children how to kick the ball at increasing distances
  • Pair children for kicking and stopping activities
• Activity Name: Shape Identifier
• Aim: To practice different locomotor skills while learning to recognize different shapes and colors
• Infrastructure Required: Playground/Indoors
• Props & Equipment Required: Cards with different colored shapes (one for each child), Music CD/Drums, Chalk/Marking tape
• Class Size: Large class size of 40-50
• Before the class starts, place shape cards on the ground
• Familiarize children with basic shapes like square, triangle, rectangle, circle, etc.
• Children move around, stand next to a shape when the music stops
• Ask children to identify shapes and colors they are standing on
• Give instructions like making themselves small, big, stretching, bending, turning, etc.
• Use locomotor skills like jogging, skipping, jumping, and moving backward
• Level 2: HopScotch Rules for shape identification
• Mark 2 hopscotch patterns
• Arrange children in groups at each hopscotch pattern