Sunday, November 25, 2012
PE Intervention
A middle school in California has set up an intervention program in physical education. If students are not meeting the predetermined state health and fitness requirements, the students have to take the class as a remedial/ intervention. Instead of the students enrolling in life time activities and sports, students who aren't in the healthy range have to enroll in the intervention class that is primarily focused on fitness. Just after the first year, this school had 18% more students score in the healthy range than the state average. This program has seemed to gain the attention of more schools in California who wish to implement similar programs.
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I wrote a research paper on a topic similar to this last spring 2012 semester. I found information about different schools who used remedial physical eudcation classes similar to the one your are blogging about. I think it is a great idea for children who need to imporve physical fitness to become healthier. I also think it it a good idea for schools who need to improve their rate and scores of healthy range children. More schools would improve their fitness scores if they implemented prgrams similar to these.
ReplyDeleteI had never heard of any intervention programs like this, but they sound like a great idea! I'm sure, like any new program, that some people would object and say kids are being unfairly punished. However, I feel that the lifelong changes that could be made would far outweigh any complaints. I'm interested to see if programs like this expand and other states adopt the idea. Hopefully Pennsylvania will have something like this in the future!
ReplyDeleteI’m somewhat spectacle of the intervention program. Only because yes you get results but are they affective. It almost sounds like sending kids to boot camp (metaphorically speaking). Boot camps challenge you physically like this intervention program. Are goal is to teach lifelong fitness. Not just improve healthy range test scores for a semester. I would need more case studies and research that backs and shows improvements on students’ voluntary involvement in daily physical activity.
ReplyDeleteI have never really herd of anything like this. It actually seems like a really good idea. With obesity being a huge problem today those people need the extra attention and time. Being in a regular physical education class they probably don't get to work at their full potential. If you put those people who were not meeting the requirements in their own separate class I think it would benefit them much more. The teacher could focus on specific activities for their particular needs. I think if the class was a serious class and they took it seriously it would be very beneficial.
ReplyDeleteI think that this can be good and bad. I think that students may be embarrassed to go to a class like this but it could be good because some students may listen. This could also make some students lose interest in fitness.
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