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DMP (Angadan)
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Username: Angadan
Post Number: 1
Registered: 4-2006
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 6:22 am: |       |
What is the required amount of time per week/day a student K-8 is required to have stuctured physical education. Or where could I find that information. I teach at a K-8 school and my time varies for each class. |
Joe Herzog (Bigfish344)
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Username: Bigfish344
Post Number: 24
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Friday, April 28, 2006 - 6:58 am: | |
To the best of my knowledge there is no federal requirement for physical education, only varying state requirements. In California it is 200 minutes ever ten days for K-6 and 400 minutes every ten days for 7-12. The NASPE recommendations are slightly more stringent at 150 a week for elementary and 225 for secondary. Myself and any number of others have written their legislators and have asked that the NCLB be amended to include physical education, in the face of the pandemic of overweight/obesity/diabetes in the country.
Check your state education code for requirements in your state.
Joe Herzog |
James Mutter (Peforyourlife)
Junior Member
Username: Peforyourlife
Post Number: 3
Registered: 3-2006
| | Posted on Friday, June 16, 2006 - 8:39 pm: | |
In Brevard County Florida where I teach Elementary Physical Education, my Pre-K - 5th grade only receive PE 40 minutes per week. My sixth graders receive 80 minutes (via 2 40 minute sessions). I am also required to give the Fitnessgram test and send my results to the big house at the end of the school year. If the Fitnessgram test was held in the same high regard as the FCAT it would be considered criminal to test the kids after only giving them the tiny amount of practice necessary to finish the test. THAT brings me to another topic related, it takes a number of sessions to complete the pretesting and posttesting. So there go at least six to eight sessions out the window depending upon rain and hurricanes and whatever. Thirty times on average for the entire school year do I get to see the same class. I have single classes which give me great numbers, but sometimes it is hard to get a good game going with under twenty students.
Now, don't be too envious! I have had as many as 64 in one class, no assistant no aid, 8th grade, filled with the ex-ed kids. That was years ago and things have gotten better, but that seems like a lifetime ago.
James Mutter |
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