My Philosophy on Education- P.E. is an Important Part of the School Curriculum

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The major point I care about and my philosophy of education is centered on children living a healthy life style. When I talk about a healthy life style I mainly am referring to schools taking the steps to providing children with physical education. I believe schools should provide physical education because it provides the opportunity to excel, it provides the students to have the connection to their peers and it mainly provides the exercise that the children aren’t getting today through the disappearance and cutting of the physical education programs. The reason why I am passionate about putting or keeping P.E. back into schools is because of my prior knowledge and experience of P.E through out my years in school. Through school I have seen the effects of extra curricular activity and P.E could do in my life and other people lives. The effects P.E. had on me was physical education gave me the opportunity to excel. Through the years of elementary, middle school and even high school I had average grades along the way. I tried extremely hard in school and did well but school did not come easy and had my struggles along the way. However P.E. gave me the opportunity to excel in other thing outside the classroom. I believe finding a talent as a child cane increase a students self esteem and self efficacy. The next point I would like to touch upon would be that children aren’t getting enough exercise they need. We all know the importance of daily exercise; however over the past decade a greater number of children are obese. I believe this partially due to the cuts in physical educations in schools. Lastly I will talk about the importance P.E. has socially on children. Physical education provided an opportunity for me to make friends and...

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...these concepts need to be covered. My educational philosophy provides the necessary qualities children need to be successful and live a healthy life style. Those qualities discussed and I believe important are giving the students an opportunity to excel, it provides the students to have social skills needed and provides the exercise that children need daily by physical education. That why it is important to keep physical education in school systems intact for the benefits of the students.

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Brantlinger, Andrew. (2005). Geometry of Inequality. Rethinking Schools Online, 19(13). Retrieved from http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/19_03/geom193.shtml

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