The Role of Physical Education and Physical Activity

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The Role of Physical Education and Physical
Activity
In Coordinated School Health
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Objectives

• Tennessee Law for Physical Activity
• 2. Best Practices!
• 3. State Board Rules and Regulations for
  Physical Education
• 4. New Standards
• 5. Sports Physicals Policy

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Coordinated School Health Model
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Recommendations
Children and adolescents should engage in 30-60
minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity
on all or most days of the week.
NASPE Guidelines CDC Recommendation
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TCA 49-6-1022

• Integrate a minimum of 90 minutes of physical
  activity per week during the instructional school
  day.
• In accordance with Section 2 of this bill, as
  amended, it shall be the duty of each local
  education agency to integrate a minimum of
  ninety (90) minutes of physical activity per
  week into the instructional school day for
  elementary and secondary school students.
• Implement a coordinated school health program.

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Indicates a City System with a County
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• Best Practices!

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A Program of the ILSI Research Foundation Web
www.take10.net Phone [phone] Email
take10_at_ilsi.org
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What are you hearing?

• OH MY GOSH! MY KIDS ABSOLUTELY LOVE THE TAKE 10!
  I HAVE BEEN DOING AN ACTIVITY BETWEEN ALL OF OUR
  FRIDAY TESTS AND IT IS GREAT! I HAVE ALREADY
  CREATED SOME OF MY OWN. WE DOUBLE DUTCHED AND HAD
  ALL THE KIDS JUMPING THE INVISIBLE JUMP ROPE AND
  THEN WE HULA HOOPED BOTH WAYS COUNTING TO 100 IT
  IS A FABULOUS PROGRAM AND I THANK YOU FOR
  BRINGING IT TO US
• 1ST GRADE TEACHER

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http//tennessee.gov/education/schoolhealth/physed
/doc/TNPhysActivHbook_10_07.pdf
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NC Energizers

• DOWNLOADABLE
• http//www.ncpe4me.com/energizers.html
• Elementary School Energizers
• Middle School Energizers    
• Laminated booklets of the Grades K-5 Energizers
  and Middle School Energizers are available for
  purchase

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• Physical Education

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Physical Education

• A planned, sequential K-12 curriculum that
  provides cognitive content and learning
  experiences in a variety of activity areas such
  as basic movement skills physical fitness
  rhythms and dance games team, dual, and
  individual sports tumbling and gymnastics and
  aquatics.
• Quality physical education should promote,
  through a variety of planned physical activities,
  each students optimum physical, mental,
  emotional, and social development, and should
  promote activities and sports that all students
  enjoy and can pursue throughout their lives.
  Qualified, trained teachers teach physical
  activity.

www.cdc.gov
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RULES OF THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

• Health, Physical Education, and Wellness.
• 1. Health and Physical Education, Grades K-8. The
  health education and physical education programs,
  provided annually, shall be based on state
  curriculum standards and shall be developmentally
  appropriate with instruction focusing on
  activities which will promote good health habits
  and enhance physical fitness.
• 2. Wellness, Grades 9-12.
• (i) Students shall complete 1 unit of wellness.
  The program shall be based on the state
  curriculum standards and shall integrate concepts
  from the areas of health and physical fitness.
• (ii) Participation in marching band and
  interscholastic athletics shall not be
  substituted for this requirement. Credit earned
  in two years of JROTC may be substituted for the
  wellness requirement provided the local board of
  education has complied with the requirements of
  the State Board of Education.
• (iii) Participation in marching band and
  interscholastic athletics shall not be
  substituted for the wellness requirement. Credit
  earned in two years of JROTC may be substituted
  for the wellness requirement provided the local
  board of education has complied with requirements
  of the State Board of Education.

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New ½ CREDIT

• All students will meet the following READY CORE
  requirements
• English 4 units
• Mathematics 4 units
• Science 3 units
• Social Studies 3.5 units
• Health, Physical Fitness and Wellness 1.5 units
  
• Students are required to complete an additional ½
  credit in Physical Education. This requirement
  may be met by substituting a documented and
  equivalent time of physical activity in marching
  band, JROTC, cheerleading, interscholastic
  athletics, school sponsored intramural athletics,
  and other areas approved by the local board of
  education.

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New Standards

• Pass SBE August 22, 2008
• PreK-12 Physical Education
• http//www.tennessee.gov/education/ci/health_pe/

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Pre-Participation Sports Physicals, Rule

• 0520-1-3-.08 Pupil Personnel
  Services, Requirement G
• The school health services program shall include
  but not be limited to the following
• (a) Every child entering school for the first
  time shall have a physical examination. A doctor
  of medicine, osteopathic physician, physician
  assistant, certified nurse practitioner, or a
  properly trained public health nurse shall
  perform this examination. No child shall be
  admitted to school without proof of immunization
  except those who are exempt by statute as
  provided in T.C.A. 49-6-5001.
• (b) Every student participating in
  interscholastic athletics shall have an annual
  physical examination. A doctor of medicine,
  osteopathic physician, physician assistant,
  certified nurse practitioner, properly trained
  public health nurse, or registered nurse who has
  received specialized training as defined by the
  Tennessee Department of Health shall perform this
  examination. Additionally, examinations of
  students in the 7th and 9th grades who
  participate in interscholastic athletics shall be
  reported using the Interscholastic Sports
  Examination Form developed by the Tennessee
  Department of Health.

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Update Regarding Proposed Sports Physical Rule
Change for 7th and 9th Graders

• There has been a delay in the process of moving
  forward with the proposed rule change regarding
  sports physicals for 7th and 9th graders. In the
  meantime, the State Board of Education still
  recommends that 7th and 9th grade athletes get
  the well-child checkup/EPSDT screen. Until the
  rule-making process is complete, however, either
  exam (the traditional sports physical or the
  comprehensive well-child checkup/EPSDT screen)
  will be accepted by the State Board of Education
  and by TSSAA.
• The Interscholastic Sports Examination Form is
  the only form needed for these students. TSSAA is
  accepting this form for these students (and TSSAA
  will accept this form for students in any other
  grade as well). Although the comprehensive
  EPSDT/well-child checkup is recommended, it is
  not required that athletes have this box checked
  on their clearance form.

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Coordinated School HealthEnhances Educational
Outcomes

• Schools that offer intensive physical activity
  programs see positive effects on academic
  achievement
• improved mathematics
• improved reading and writing scores
• reduced disruptive behaviors
• Shepard RJ. (1997). Pediatr Exerc Sci, 9 113-126.
• Sallis JF, et al. (1999). Res Q Exerc Sport,
  70(2), 127-134.

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Health Realities

• If schools do not deal with childrens health
  by design they deal with it by default.
• (Health Is Academic)

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References

• Johnson, C., Myers, L., Webber, S., Hunter, S.,
  Bonura, S., Berenson, G. (1997). Learned
  helplessness with excessive weight and other
  cardiovascular risk factors in children. American
  Journal of Health Behavior, 21 (1), 51-59.
• Kilander, L., Nyman, H., Bober, M., Lithell, H.
  (1997). Cognitive function, vascular risk
  factors and education. Journal of Internal
  Medicine, 142 (4), 313-321.
• Rhoades, S., Shimoda, K., Waid, L., ONeil, P.
  (1995). Neurocognitive deficits in morbidly
  obese children with obstructive sleep apnea.
  Journal of Pediatrics, 127 (5), 741-744.