Course Description According to the state of California curriculum standards for Physical Education, all freshmen will be enrolled in a Course 1 Physical Education class. ... To develop the students' physical fitness levels and an appreciation for fitness. 2. ... Jackets are not allowed in Physical Education Class: only proper athletic attire. ... The grades may be based on a combination of activities: including daily participation, fitness, skill, knowledge (written assignments and tests), and psychological and sociological development (arrive on time to class, display a positive attitud...

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1.1) Introduction Physical Education has developed massively since the 19th century particularly its common aims. ... Within physical education games activity promotes enjoyment amongst pupils, allowing social interactions to develop friendship groups. ... Females who are very bodily conscious tend to show an unenthusiastic attitude to games involving physical contact i.e. rugby. ... Therefore PE encourages the discovery of pupil aptitudes within school to help make informed lifelong choices on physical activity which is why it's so valuable. ... In terms of 'gifted', Feldhu...

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Most educators subscribed to Piaget's stages of cognitive development, and due to the fact that the majority of children with autism do not have distinguishable physical characteristics, or constantly display behaviors of someone with severe mental retardation, there seemed to be no other explanation for their behaviors. ... However, approximately one half of autistic children develop normally until 2-3 years of age, before exhibiting autistic characteristics. These characteristics may include lack of eye contact, repetition of words in place of normal communication, lack of respons...

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(Golbraith, 1977) Davis (1977) stated job satisfaction that it is the worker satisfaction or dissatisfaction and put forward that job satisfaction can be obtained in case of there is a harmony between the wish of workers and job characteristics. ... (Priti, 1999) Bluedrn (1982) highlighted demographic characteristics such as race, age, education and pay that affect job expectations and environmental opportunities, which ultimately influence turnover and job satisfaction. ... However, there are some factors such as physical factors, management behavior and incomes affect the relat...

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Catherine Beecher: Promoter of Physical Education for Women Physical education during the nineteenth century was geared toward male private schools. However, there were certain educators who wanted to see a rise in female participation in physical education. ... She promoted the idea of physical health as a subject appropriate for schools. ... These contrasting characteristics in her parents led Beecher to think that "there is in mind no distinction of sex, and . . . much that passes for natural talent is mainly the result of culture" (Beecher, 1874, p. 14). ... She was a pionee...

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General educators, especially those teaching within an inclusive environment, need to be more aware of the characteristics of children with disabilities and the nature of their educational, social, and emotional requirements. ... This may be difficult for a teacher to accomplish in a classroom with physical, emotional, behavioral and/or learning disabled children, but it is imperative that every teacher discovers the appropriate strategies in order to achieve this by getting to know your students. ...

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In order to understand Asperger's syndrome a teacher must be able to understand and recognise the characteristic behaviour that accompanies the disorder. ... The students' cognitive development is also highlighted by some of the characteristics of Asperger's Syndrome. ... Although Asperger's Syndrome is regarded as part of the Autistic Spectrum Disorders it does not include the same language and communication difficulties that define Autism (See text, Page 10) One of the main characteristics of Asperger's Syndrome is that students still show a normal to above averag...

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Research suggests that the most promising school violence prevention programs involve at least some of seven characteristics, including a comprehensive approach, starting early and involving parents. ... Seventy-one percent of teachers observed less physical violence among the students that participated. Violence-prevention literature and experts consistently associate at least seven characteristics with promising school based violence prevention programs: 1} A comprehensive approach 2} an early start, long term commitment ...

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These simple characteristics are also important especially when the learner is starting to enter society. ... The third pillar of education implies that being functional in society doesn't just require mental and physical skills but socializing traits also. ...

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Equally important is the fact that safe and well-supervised recess offers cognitive, social, emotional, and physical benefits that may not be fully appreciated when a decision is made to diminish it. Recess is unique from, and a complement to, physical education. ... "Consistent with Piagetian theory, the disequilibration characteristic of peer interaction facilitates social and cognitive development" (p. 39 Pellegrini & Holmes). ...

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In the following paragraphs of this paper you will see how I have used similar characteristics that you will find in a book called "Claiming Disability" by Simi Linton. ... For example you may not ever see a Non-Traditional student taking a course in gymnastics (a course that is needed to complete a physical education degree) because of the physical ability to do certain things in the class. A much younger student or what we would consider the Traditional student would be perceived as ok for taking this class even if their physical ability would not let them do it. ...

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Then, tying the races to beliefs that don't coincide with one's personal beliefs, a person could feel compelled to make judgments based solely on physical characteristics. ... From her son's many physical confrontations at school, to incidents of vandalism to her family's home, to attempts to have her husband, Professor John P. McCollum, terminated at his position at the University of Illinois, and eventually losing her position at the university as the instructor for the physical education program. ...

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Our preference for a given function is characteristic, and so we can be typed by this preference. ... Clearly, all characteristics correspond to each other. ... These learning styles can be listed as: immediate environment (sound, heat, light and design); emotionality (motivation, responsibility, persistence and structure); sociological needs (self oriented, peer oriented, adult oriented or combined ways); physical needs (perceptual preference(s), time of day, food intake and mobility). ...

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It requires both mental and physical activity. ... Teachers should therefore attempt to connect ideas, concepts, conclusions, and so forth with physical reality, whether as effects and consequences or in a symbolic way. ... By making sure it features two defining characteristics: the information about a topic is fragmentary or contradictory, and the topic relates to students' personal lives. ...

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Each day you awake, you learn something new. It may be as simple as learning how to use a table saw, or learning about what Theodore Roosevelt accomplished while in office, or as in depth as learning the Metric System. Something you learn are taught to you directly, and other things you learn indi...

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Relating to the Present According to Webster, the word modern refers to relating to or characteristic of the present (746). ... Everyone is born different, some being more physical, mental, or social than others. ...

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It refers to pupils with learning difficulties in its broadest sense and provides four main categories to group pupils according to their needs: - communication and interaction - cognition and learning - behavior, emotional and social development - sensory and/of physical. ... "It should focus on the child's learning characteristics, the learning environment that the school is providing for the child, the task and the teaching style" (DfES 2001, § 5.6). ...

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The intention is that the basement will include the principal characteristics of the school, the cafeteria, the gymnasium and ultimately a theater. ... Beyond mathematics and language arts, PRC school will cover science, technology, music, art, and physical education. ...

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An important characteristic that the U.S. education system lacks, is the idea of effort being directly correlated to success. ... A third grade Japanese school week consists of eight hours of Japanese, five of arithmetic, three of science, social studies and physical education, two hours of music and art. ...

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Some other characteristics of the naturalist are: they will have rock and insect collections. ... They often excel in physical education and enjoy becoming involved in sporting activities. ... You must help these students in other classes by using groupings and similar characteristics to learn the information. ...

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By incorporation distance education with television, students were not only able to listen to lectures, but could now watch their professor interacting with the class much like in a physical classroom. ... These few characteristics show the potential that MOOCs have of disrupting traditional forms of education and of becoming the primary method of teaching. ...

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Without respecting the emotional and physical needs of the brain, it gravitates towards the survival mode by perceiving stress. ... Additionally, they clearly define the characteristics of a well-managed classroom as having students deeply involved in their work and wasting little time, having the students know the expectations of the teacher, and the classroom climate is generally relaxed. ...

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Many educators believe that a student's biological age is more important than his or her intellectual age, and that students should develop among peers that exhibit similar social, emotional, and physical development. ... Gifted individuals have any one, or a combination, of 4 basic characteristics that are currently not being addressed by current education methods: cognitive abilities, affective abilities, physical abilities, and intuitive abilities. These include: a flexible thought process, high levels of language development, accelerated pace of thought, unusual sensitivity to the exp...

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One side of the debate states that freedom is the sole characteristic of being human, that this freedom needs to be protected and allowed to grow. ... Examples of this could include anything that could produce physical harm on a person. ...

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The principles of adult education are quite different from the ideas that are commonly used to teach children(Wegener). The method of teaching a child, where all the relevant knowledge are simply spoon fed to him may not appeal to any adult patient's learning, nor provide any effective results. Adults are thought to need special considerations that are different from that of children and teens when it comes to learning (Biech).   Andragogy The concept of andragogy was introduced by Malcolm Knowles in 1968 as "a new label and a new technology "distinguishing adult learning from children...

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