Physical Literacy
The ability to move with competence and confidence in a wide variety of physical activities.
What is physical literacy?
A teaching approach emphasizing standards, assessment, and intentional planning.
What is Teaching for Learning?
Motivation that comes from enjoyment or interest in the activity itself.
What is intrinsic motivation?
Standard focused on motor skills and movement patterns.
What is Standard 1?
The recommended daily amount of physical activity for children.
What is 60 minutes per day?
The ultimate goal of physical education is to develop students who participate in physical activity throughout life.
What is developing physically literate individuals?
A physically literate individual respects themselves and others and values physical activity.
What are characteristics of a physically literate individual?
The alignment between goals, instruction, and assessment.
What is instructional alignment?
Motivation driven by rewards, grades, or external pressures.
What is extrinsic motivation?
Standard focused on strategies, tactics, and concepts of movement.
What is Standard 2?
The five health-related fitness components
What are cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, and body composition?
What is Skills Themed Model
The national organization responsible for the K–12 physical education standards.
What is SHAPE America?
The large-scale plan that guides learning experiences in a physical education program.
What is a curriculum?
A theory stating that motivation increases when task difficulty matches ability.
What is flow theory?
Standard focused on achieving health-enhancing fitness and physical activity. Standard focused on valuing physical activity for health, enjoyment, and social interaction.
What is Standard 4?
The four parts of the FITT principle.
What are frequency, intensity, time, and type?
A curriculum model that aligns with standard 3
Programs designed to increase physical activity opportunities before, during, and after school.
What is CSPAP (Comprehensive School Physical Activity Program)?
A framework or blueprint used to organize instruction around a theme or learning focus.
What is a curriculum model?
The theory that emphasizes success based on improvement and mastery rather than comparison with others.
What is achievement goal theory (task orientation)?
Standard focused on personal and social responsibility.
What is Standard 3?
Fitness testing should be used for this purpose, not grading.
What is personal planning and goal setting?
A curriculum model that aligns with standard 2
Teaching Games for Understanding
Research shows that increasing physical education time generally has this effect on academic performance.
What is no negative effect (and sometimes small positive effects)?
Key contextual factors teachers must consider before planning lessons.
What are students, space, equipment, time, and teacher philosophy?
Students withdrawing or saying “I don’t care” may actually be trying to avoid this.
What is public failure or embarrassment about ability?
When did SHAPE America change their standards?
What is 2024?
Components such as agility, balance, coordination, power, reaction time, and speed.
What is skill-related fitness?
A curriculum model where students learn multiple roles in sport environments