- Hoover Elementary School
- Class Curriculum Schedule & Assessment Procedures
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What is quality Physical Education?
A quality Physical Education program is taught by a specially trained teacher. The quality program models the same criteria found in all successful classrooms...a safe and inviting environment, individualized instruction, regular feedback (individual, positive, positive-corrective, positive specific) and carefully planned lessons.
Physical Education is unique in that in encompasses four areas:
Kinesthetic - motor skills (walk, run, gallop, skip, underhand throw, overhand throw, hand dribble, foot dribble, etc.)
Affective - personal social skills, leadership skills (confidence, empathy, grit, integrity, mindfulness,respect, reflection, responsibility), conflict resolution strategies
Health - exercise and fitness, healthy eating, communicable disease prevention, personal safety
Cognitive - motor skill identification, game rules, cross curricular activities (math, reading, writing, spelling, science)
TRIMESTER #1
Kinesthetic - walk, run, skip, gallop, foot dribble, foot pass, moving to open space, moving in space
Affective - confidence, empathy, grit, integrity, mindfulness, respect, reflection, responsibility
Health - exercise and fitness (60 minutes or more of exercise each day, small amounts of screen time, play outside, resting and exercising heart rates)
Cognitive - game rules, motor skill identification, alphabet and spelling, math computations and numbers
TRIMESTER #2
Kinesthetic - walk, run, skip, gallop, underhand throw, underhand strike, catching, hand dribble, set shot, moving to open space, moving in space
Affective - confidence, empathy, grit, integrity, mindfulness, respect, reflection, responsibility
Health - communicable disease prevention and healthy eating (arm block coughs and sneezes, hand wash to the ABC song, five food groups)
Cognitive - game rules, motor skill identification, alphabet and spelling, math computations and numbers, five food groups
TRIMESTER #3
Kinesthetic - walk, run, skip, gallop, overhand throw, catching, batting, tennis forehand strike, hockey stick handle, rotations, balance positions
Affective - confidence, empathy, grit, integrity, mindfulness, respect, reflection, responsibility
Health - personal safety (bike safety, traffic signs, knowing your phone number, stranger awareness)
Cognitive - game rules, motor skill identification, alphabet and spelling, math computations and numbers
ASSESSMENT
The boys and girls are assessed in three areas each trimester: Motor Skills, Knowledge, Behavior
The boys and girls practice and discuss everything listed in the curriculum. I formally assess a small sample of the skills the classes practice because of time constraints and the number of students taught.
Please find below the assessment sheets I use to formally assess the students each trimester. You can click on the appropriate grade level sheet to see how the information is used for the report card sent home.
