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Corbin P Henry (Cphenry)
Junior Member
Username: Cphenry
Post Number: 4
Registered: 9-2009
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 08, 2009 - 9:08 am: |       |
I used heart rate monitors all threw high-school and hated them with a passion. Now that i am to be a Physical education teacher, i feel like a hypocrite because i will using the same thing to teach my students. For Athletes, it takes much more for them to achieve the targeted heart rate than it is for students who do nothing. I would literally have to sprint and keep moving for the whole class in order to just barely get the 20 minutes required for each class of being in between 140 and 180. It's frustrating for a kid like me who plays 3 for sports year round to come into PE class and work that hard than have kids who do nothing all year and simply walk around and yet they get more time in their target heart range which results in them recieving higher scores even though their Pe levels are extremly poor. How do you justify this to your athlets in your class when they get B's and the other kids who are in no shape get A's? |
Sonya Daugherty (Sld6949)
Junior Member
Username: Sld6949
Post Number: 7
Registered: 10-2006
| | Posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 - 10:46 am: | |
This is a tough question and very touchy subject. I always tell my athletes that I am glad that they lead an active lifestyle but they are not graded on the sports they play, they are graded on physical education. Even though the students who are out of shape are just walking and do not look like they are trying, does not mean they are. The heart rate monitor does not lie. You are comparing the student to themselves, not to other students. Also, you are asking them to challenge themselves even more physically. |
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