Philosophy of Physical Education

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Philosophy of Physical Education

The perspective of this paper is to develop a philosophy on physical education and then explain what kind of job we plan on having later on in life and relate physical education to that. The purpose for developing this philosophy is to try and get the most out of the people I’m working with on physical education, whether it is an adult or adolescent.

Later on in life, I plan on being either a physical education teacher or an elementary education teacher and I also plan on being a varsity level tennis and basketball coach. My intentions as the head of the tennis program are to instill leadership qualities in each and every one of my players. I plan on leading by example, coming to practice willing to give the players 110% with no letdowns so as a player they don’t feel cheated, and it will teach them that this type of attitude is the correct one to have when playing any sport. Even though I have every intent of winning all the meets my team participates in, I cannot lose sight of the main goal—improvement. As long as the players are getting better I will be completely satisfied. I also will teach them that sportsmanship and respect is the key to being a well-respected athlete. My high school coach did not allow us to have piss-poor attitudes and I won’t allow it either, you win with class and you lose with class.

I would say that my philosophy is a combination of a couple of the five different traditional philosophies—naturalism and idealism. The naturalism part would be to teach my players to play with desire and passion, and to give all they have while they’re on the court, this will produce better results for them as an individual as well as producing more wins overall as a team. Ideali...

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...these are both essential if you’re going to be a good doubles player. I will also have my players run drills that are meant to develop stamina at the end of each practice, because in tennis it is vital that you can be on the court for around 3 hours at a time, especially at the college level.

I would say that my style of coaching is that of perfection, as I will demand the most out of my players every single day, so I guess you could call me an idealist. I will demand this in hopes of winning something that has happened once in my high school’s history—a state title in tennis. I want to succeed Joel Tonda in coaching Knoxville High School boys tennis and teach physical education or elementary education.

Bibliography

• “Sports Pointers” by Dennie Hughes

• “Introduction to Physical Education, Exercise Science, and Sports Studies” pp.107-108

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