26C.6563.16, PE Central, Bundle: Integrating Literacy & Math into Physical Education

Math Course Purpose (7 hours)

The purpose of this course is to introduce the importance of math integration and demonstrate, through hands-on experiences, how math integration strategies can be implemented in a physical education setting. Teaching students to live a health-enhancing life extends beyond physical activity. In order to achieve a health-enhancing level of physical activity and fitness throughout life, one must be able to understand basic and complex math. One must also be able to clearly identify and solve problems through problem-solving. Math helps to teach this, which in turn, helps students when they are trying to achieve goals related to wellness and health. This course will provide physical educators with the knowledge, skills, and creativity necessary to effectively integrate math into their physical education setting so that their students not only maintain health-enhancing levels of physical activity but also succeed academically.

Course Description

The push to integrate math across all content areas is a rapidly growing movement. Not only is it the best standard teaching practice, but it has also proven to help children achieve success at higher academic levels. With global competition and other countries surpassing the United States in math test scores, school districts, administrators, and parents are demanding that children leave high school college-ready. Math provides the foundation that ensures this goal will be met. This course will help you understand the importance of incorporating math into a physical education setting and provide practical strategies that you can use to integrate math into your physical education curriculum. Upon completion of this course, you will develop your own math integration plan and method of assessment.

Course Goals

By the end of this course, the student will be able:

• To identify the positive effects of math integration on students’ personal, social, and academic growth.
• To analyze the process for implementing math into physical education.
• To create a math lesson or game that can be used in your physical education setting.

Course Goals  (Literacy 15 hours)

On completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Understand and explain literacy.
• Understand the importance of literacy to the development and success of a child.
• Understand how integrating literacy affects physical education programs and teachers in the school environment.
• Understand the components of literacy.
• Understand strategies for implementing literacy in physical education, including speaking and listening, reasoning, accountable talk, and writing and reading.
• Analyze what proper literacy integration looks like in action.
• Create a personalized literacy plan, Literacy Physical Education Lesson, and methods of assessment.