The Fitness for Life resources can be valuable tools in helping prepare future physical education teachers—teachers who can produce physically-educated individuals who have the knowledge, skills, and confidence to enjoy a lifetime of healthful physical activity.
By having physical education majors go through the Fitness for Life program they can learn how to present accurate health-related fitness concepts and skills in a manner conducive to learning at the various grade levels they might teach. In addition, they can see how an articulated curriculum helps their students successfully climb the stairway to lifetime fitness.
By showing physical education majors how to use the Fitness for Life resources, you are better preparing them to be competitive in seeking jobs in the many states and districts that use the Fitness for Life program.
There are many ways the Fitness for Life resources can be integrated into a higher education physical education methods course:
- Fitness for Life resources from each level (K-12) combined
- Fitness for Life resources combined with Physical Best resources
- Fitness for Life resources combined with the Fitnessgram manual
- Fitness for Life, Physical Best and Fitnessgram resources combined
Some universities offer a special course called “Teaching Fitness for Life,” or similar title. Watch this web site for updates about examples of approaches professors have used to teach these courses.
We’ll also be sharing related news. For example, in its document called “Physical Education is an Academic Subject,” the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) includes a statement about the value of textbooks like Fitness for Life in making the case for physical education being an academic subject. Certainly having physical education majors read Fitness for Life will help them further understand the universe of knowledge specific to physical education, at a level appropriate for the students they will be teaching.
This is especially true because Fitness for Life is:
- Articulated (follows a scope and sequence)
- Standards-based
- Based on best practices
- Evidence-based.
Go to these related sections of the Fitness for Life web site to read more about these key points:
What is FFL?
Correlations
Testimonials
Physical Education is an Academic Subject (download)
