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What’s New in Physical Education & Health?
“Healthy Active Five Connection” Manitoba Physical Education Supervisors’ Association
Vision
A physically active and healthy lifestyle for all students.
Aim
To provide students with planned and balanced programming to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes for physically active and healthy lifestyles.
Purpose
To explain why a new Physical Education and Health Education curriculum was created.
To create an understanding of what will look different with the new curriculum.
To identify what is needed to make the instruction of the program effective.
Here’s Why!
1995 Physical Activity Monitor
An overwhelming number of parents strongly agree that physical activity helps their children’s growth and development, builds self-esteem and a positive self-image, helps build concentration and improves learning, and helps children learn to share and cooperate with others.
Health Risks Physical Activity and Health: A Report of the Surgeon General 1996
The body responds to physical activity in ways that have important positive effects on the musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, respiratory, and endocrine systems.
These changes are consistent with a number of health benefits, including a reduced risk of premature mortality and reduced risks of coronary heart disease, hypertension, colon cancer, and diabetes mellitus.
Five Major Health Risks for Children and Youth
Curriculum designed to address the 5 major health issues for children and youth (C.D.C. 1997):
Inadequate physical activity Unhealthy dietary behaviours Substance use and abuse Sexual behaviours Personal injuries
Research Supporting PE/HE
Brain Research
From birth to age 10, sensory and motor experiences play a significant role in stimulating the development of connections between neurons.
After the age of 10 the brain goes through a process of “downsizing” or to use a popular phrase “use it or lose it”.
Prior to the age of 18 the brain is most receptive to changes driven by motor experience.
The school years are clearly the most effective time period for establishing both basic movement skills and also acquiring the broadest range of new and advanced motor skills.
Brain Research cont’d.
Aerobic exercise serves to increase the delivery of oxygen and glucose which in turn can help maximize learning and academic performance.
Cross lateral movements enhance the ability of both sides of the brain to communicate with each other.
Physical activity reduces the production of stress chemicals that interfere with learning.
Health Risk:
Inadequate Physical Activity
Childhood obesity increased from 5% in 1981 to 16.6% for boys and 14.6% in girls in 1996. (CMAJ Nov. 2000)
The percentage of children who report exercising 2 or more times per week outside of school hours has dropped in every age category from 1990 to 1998. (Health Canada 1999)
Girls are less active than boys:
30% vs 50% for 5 - 12 year olds 25% vs 40% for 13 - 17 year olds (Physical Activity Monitor 2000)
Health Risk:
Unhealthy Dietary Behaviours
Children are eating less fruits and raw vegetables daily. (Health Canada 1999) Males Fruits Vegetables 1990 77% 52% 1998 69% 35% Females Fruits 84% 59%
Vegetables 77% 44% Increasing issues related to “portion distortion”.
Over 90% of the items in school vending machines are soft drinks.
(Manitoba Council on Child Nutrition and Health 2001)
Heath Risk:
Substance Use and Abuse
By Senior 4 nearly 80% of students reported having used alcohol.
The mean age of the first drink was 13.5
Reported use of drugs other than alcohol 40%
The mean age of first drug use was 14.3 (25.9% 13 and under)
Current use of tobacco was reported by 46.4% of all students.
(2001 AFM Student Survey)
Health Risks:
Intentional and Unintentional Injuries
Unintentional injuries cost Canadians about $8.7 billion per year.
For every injury-related death, there are 40 hospitalizations and an estimated 670 emergency room visits for treatment of injuries.
In 1996, unintentional injuries accounted for almost 70% of injury-related deaths among children and youth.
Injuries are the leading cause of death among Canadian children and youth less than 20 years old.
Suicide is the second leading cause of death in adolescents after motor vehicle crashes.
(Health Canada 1999)
Health Risks: Sexual Behaviour
26% of females and 20% of males in the 15-19 year age group reported having had sex by the age of 15.
Of the sexually active youth, 51% of females and 29% of males reported never or only sometimes using a condom during sex.
6 teens become pregnant every day in Manitoba.
The highest incidence of chlamydia and gonorrhea in Canada is among females in the 15-19 year age group.
(1996 National Population Health Survey)
What’s more important than your child’s health and well-being?
Then and Now!
What will your children be learning and doing that’s different from what you learned and did?
Combined Curriculum
One document Health-oriented PE curriculum model Wellness-oriented HE curriculum model Five interrelated General Learning Outcomes (GLO’s): 1. MOVEMENT 2. FITNESS MANAGEMENT 3. SAFETY 4. PERSONAL & SOCIAL MANAGEMENT 5. HEALTHY LIFESTYLE PRACTICES
Key Changes:
Physical Education & Health Education
Shared Time
Shared Implementation
Shared Outcomes
Shared Responsibility
Shared Time
Manitoba Education recommends the following minimum time allocations:
11% for K-6 with PE (150 min.) and Health (48 min.)
9% for 7-8 with PE (134 min.) and Health (44 min.)
2 credits for S1-S2, 1 credit = 110 hours of PE and Health instruction
Based on a 1998 survey of Manitoba schools, 55-70% of schools with K - grade 8 reported not meeting the minimum time requirements for physical education.
What do our schools provide?
Shared Implementation
Teachers will need specialized training in specific areas such as movement development, physiology, nutrition, safety, risk management, human sexuality education, conflict management …
What does your school need?
Shared Outcomes
There will be an integration among subject areas.
Reporting is a local decision.
An outcomes approach that focuses on student progress & achievement in acquiring knowledge and skills .
Shared Responsibility
Parents and schools need to work together to ensure physically active and healthy lifestyles for all.
How can we accomplish this?
How Can We Help Make It Happen?
Issues and actions to consider for implementation!
Challenges Facing Implementation
Meeting or exceeding the recommended time allotments (QDPE = 150 minutes / 6 day cycle)
Maintaining or increasing PE and or HE time
Compulsory Physical Education programs K-S4
Qualified Physical Education teachers
Delivery model (who will teach and report on the outcomes?)
Support programs (e.g. Jump Rope for Heart)
School plans (Comprehensive School Health)
Decisions related to Human Sexuality, Substance Use and Abuse Prevention, Personal Safety
Safety and Liability (Safety Guidelines for Physical Activity in Manitoba Schools)
School Plans
A School Plan that includes quality physical and health education programming as a goal creates a direction for the school to follow.
(Comprehensive School Health)
e.g. - meets or exceeds the minimum recommended time, code of conduct for citizenship, school safety, extracurricular physical activities, nutrition, special health programs ( e.g. smoking, drugs, alcohol).
What does this mean for Parent Councils?
Parent councils can help implement a quality physical education & health education program.
By cooperating with teachers and administrators, parents can help their children develop active and healthy lifestyles.
Parent Resources
Physical Activity Guides
Parent Companion Documents
Online parent information
Canada Food Guide