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Post by coachjuice on Jan 18, 2011 10:51:35 GMT -6
I have a seen a similar thread on here but I can't find it anywhere. We are in the midst of a major change in focus in our school district and PE is being targeted like never before. We are needing to find more and more ways to substantiate our jobs and come up with data for everything.
I am a PE teacher, and the Head Coach of the Football program My co-worker is soon to be Head Coach of the baseball team and another is Head Coach of the track program. The admin is looking for us to make changes in our curriculum so that more (all) kids pass. We are looking to get out in-front of it so we are talking initiative but making it fall in line with the rest of the school.
Selfishly, this would be huge for us as kids would have to lift, and condition and it would most likely be an A so it would help keep them eligible.
For those of you that have an Athletic PE period or a Weights class, how did it go about about happening.
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Post by ajreaper on Jan 18, 2011 12:25:15 GMT -6
We started this years ago (at least 8 years ago). We call the class either men's or womens athletic conditioning. A student must be or has been a member of an athletic team and it requires the approval of the instructor to enroll in it. We currently have 3 sections for men and 1 for women. They lift 3 days a week and work speed/agility twice a week. They lift and run both in and out of season no exceptions, failure to dress and participate is not tolerated (you'll get removed to a regular PE class) and the expectation is you bust your butt everyday. We also have 1-2 sections of general PE weight training classes available in addition to our regular PE classes. We also have what's called "fitness for life" which is our admins answer to make sure all students pass a PE class- it is a combination of light activity and book work.
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Post by rocketcoach on Jan 18, 2011 12:32:35 GMT -6
We instituted it as a way to get kids in and out of practice earlier. In-season the varsity kids start practice during their athletic pe class, last period of the day (49 min periods) Out of season kids are lifting. We are a smaller school with pretty high academic standards and kids get a lot of homework. Kids get home sooner and get more time to do their homework. Less missed class for kids as well because if they have a road trip they are often only losing the athletic period when traveling. I'd have the football guys all second semester in the weightroom with me. Might be a way to sell it to your admin.
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Post by coachwoodall on Jan 18, 2011 13:45:48 GMT -6
4x4 block schedule, so we have a fall PE III and a spring PE III. Both are for off season S&S work. The only team that gets to start practice early is basketball b/c fall is the off season, so they get to use it at the beginning of their season.
Rosters are hand picked, by instructors selection. You MUST get this as part of the deal. By NO MEANS can guidence stick a kid in the class 'because they need something'. It will kill the concept.
We lift 4 days a week while it is cold, and go outside to practice 1 day. As the weather improves, we lift 3 days and go outside 2. This year we are changing it up some, 1 day a week we will have the whole team outside, and the other day it will be by position/group.
Here in SC, everybody must take a PE I class or ROTC for graduation, no ifs ands or buts; it is a state requirement. We also offer PE II, which can be leisure sports, health and fitness, etc... So we knock out PE I in 9th grade, and then put the players in PE III after that. We have kind of gotten around the PE I requirement for freshmen by offering a 'select' class to 1 section of PE I. The freshmen lift 2 days a week and do the other requirements for graduation the other 3 days a week.
Since you pretty much decide who will be in the class, everybody is going to make an A.
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