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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 606421" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>Well, that is a key. PE, or math or English, should not be humiliating. If it is, teaching methods are not working. Around here we have had lots of progress in PE in this. Partly because parental push, partly because emphasis from Universities that educate future PE teachers. They do lots of pedagogic classes both during their BA but especially during their Masters studies when they specialise to PE teaching instead of other sport science. PE that encourages kids to adapt active lifestyle has been one of big educational topics for long time.</p><p></p><p>They do teach also basic athletic skills of course especially with younger kids (every kids learns how to kick and throw a ball, skate, ski, play few team sports, do basic gymnastics etc.) but lot of it is about finding your own sport. Especially when kids get older. My kids are/were excused from gym part of their PE because they do/did sport program, but syllabus for kids not in sport program (in their High School there is also 'normal' program, environmental program and art program) sounds down right fun. And emphasis is learning to be active in their own terms. They do some basic sports (but vote which ones to do, often have two options or basically always an option to go swimming or lift weights instead of doing what others are doing), but they also try everything from horseback riding to canoeing to archery to almost anything they can come up with. But yes, they do have homework and have to keep exercise diary etc. too. </p><p></p><p>Any subject can be taught so, that it is downright mortifying to kids with difficulties, but also in more gentle way. Those English classes can be awful for kid with dyslexia for example. And often it is up to parents to advocate schools to adapt human teaching methods and forsake unnecessary competitiveness from school classes - from all of them, not just PE. Of course parents of difficult children often have so much to fight, that we don't have strength to have also this battle. But fortunately it is common for all parents. Very few kids flourish in environment there everything is about competing and putting kids to in order according to their skills and comparing your skills to other people's skills or there classes may turn to humiliation. No one learns well, if they have to fear about humiliation. </p><p></p><p>Okay, out of my soapbox now...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 606421, member: 14557"] Well, that is a key. PE, or math or English, should not be humiliating. If it is, teaching methods are not working. Around here we have had lots of progress in PE in this. Partly because parental push, partly because emphasis from Universities that educate future PE teachers. They do lots of pedagogic classes both during their BA but especially during their Masters studies when they specialise to PE teaching instead of other sport science. PE that encourages kids to adapt active lifestyle has been one of big educational topics for long time. They do teach also basic athletic skills of course especially with younger kids (every kids learns how to kick and throw a ball, skate, ski, play few team sports, do basic gymnastics etc.) but lot of it is about finding your own sport. Especially when kids get older. My kids are/were excused from gym part of their PE because they do/did sport program, but syllabus for kids not in sport program (in their High School there is also 'normal' program, environmental program and art program) sounds down right fun. And emphasis is learning to be active in their own terms. They do some basic sports (but vote which ones to do, often have two options or basically always an option to go swimming or lift weights instead of doing what others are doing), but they also try everything from horseback riding to canoeing to archery to almost anything they can come up with. But yes, they do have homework and have to keep exercise diary etc. too. Any subject can be taught so, that it is downright mortifying to kids with difficulties, but also in more gentle way. Those English classes can be awful for kid with dyslexia for example. And often it is up to parents to advocate schools to adapt human teaching methods and forsake unnecessary competitiveness from school classes - from all of them, not just PE. Of course parents of difficult children often have so much to fight, that we don't have strength to have also this battle. But fortunately it is common for all parents. Very few kids flourish in environment there everything is about competing and putting kids to in order according to their skills and comparing your skills to other people's skills or there classes may turn to humiliation. No one learns well, if they have to fear about humiliation. Okay, out of my soapbox now... [/QUOTE]
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