Physical Education

Plan 
                  School districts and individual schools across the nation are run with varying
degrees of difference. They are different in the way they are run, funded, organized and
many different factors affect the learning environment for the students. I am a PE
teacher at Spring Elementary School. The district that we are located in is exceptional.
They value all aspects of learning and they promote a well-rounded curriculum for the
students. The physical education department is well supported and it has a strong
backing by the school district, the principal, and the teachers. 
                  In order continue to maximize on these strengths I would develop a plan for
the PE teachers in the district to attend continued education every year. This continued
education would cover physical education, kinesiology, as well as pedagogical training.
My plan includes making sure that the facilities at the school and the equipment are in
good condition and I will plan to budge the outdated materials when needed. There is
also the opportunity for us to communicate with the parents at the back to school
meetings and through out the year about what the PE department has planned each
year. This will strengthen the relationship with the parents so they will continue to see
value in the PE department. Continuing to strengthen the relationship with the parents,
will also encourage them to continuing to help fund the PE department through the
district’s foundation. Another area to increase our strengths is to become an example in
physical education for the children. If we are a good example, other districts can learn
from us and it will strengthen our foundation and we can learn from other districts as
well.
                  We need to acknowledge our weakness and threats and we need to
minimize them as best we can. Like many schools in the state of California, children are
not getting the required minutes of physical activity that the state says that they should
get. California mandates that elementary students should get 200 minutes every 10
days. Our school only allows for 120 minutes of physical activity lead by a PE instructor
every 10 days. This is due to funding, and time management by the school. The school
has tried to make up the rest of the minutes by having classroom teachers lead their
individual classroom in PE two times per week, but for numerous reasons this does no
always happen. In order to minimize this, we need to make a budget and set up a plan
to request more money from the foundation to increase the pay of the district PE
teachers so they can teach more hours per day. In addition to this, the district, the
principal, and the teachers should discuss any options that would allow for the students
to be able to have more PE and less in classroom instruction. The plan would also
include educating the parents and the foundation of the importance of physical
education. As more parents make the push for schools to focus more on science and
math, they need to be educated to understand that being physically active will actually
improve the students performance in all subjects and that funding should continue, and
if agreed upon, increase the budget for the PE department to teach more minutes per
week.
                  Lastly, a survey should be designed to see if better facilities and equipment
were a driver for families to choose private and charter schools over public schools. We
need to review the annual information on school enrollment and the population and
analyze if a significant amount of people were choosing private and charter schools
over public schools. If enrollment were going down in the public schools, there would be
less funding to the foundation over the coming years as well. This threat needs to be
looked into and planned for.
 

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