Physical LiteracyIndividuals who are physically literate move with competence and confidence in a wide variety of physical activities in multiple environments that benefit the healthy development of the whole person.
Physical and Health Education Canada, “What Is Physical Literacy?” |
Elementary |
“The goal of daily physical activity is to instill the habit of activity and enable all elementary students to be active on a daily basis in order to maintain or enhance their physical fitness, their overall health and wellness, and their ability and readiness to learn.” ~Health & Physical Education Curriculum Grades 1-8, p 26
Studies have shown that when the physical health and well-being of students is supported, their academic achievement improves as well. The Ontario government is committed to ensuring that elementary students have plenty of opportunities and supports to be physically active. The Daily Physical Activity Policy (PPM 138) will ensure that elementary students have a minimum of 20 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity each school day.
Since physical activity is only one component of a comprehensive health and physical education program, there will be days when a health and physical education class does not include at least twenty minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity. On these days and on days when no health and physical education class is scheduled, other opportunities for accumulating at least twenty minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity during the instructional day must be provided. http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/healthyschools/dpa.htm
Assessment: Classroom teachers are to follow the ministry mandated guidelines of 20 minutes of moderate to vigorous Daily Physical Activity each school day.
This can be accomplished by participating in 1-5 minute energy bursts throughout the day or through integrating moderate to physical activities into the curriculum content.
The goal is to total at least 20 minutes of moderate to vigorous activity each school day.
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Secondary |
“As a result of developing self-assessment skills, students learn to identify specific actions they need to take to improve, and to plan next steps – that is, to define their long and short-term, individual goals with increasing clarity and realism.” ~Growing Success Policy Document, p35
Cardiorespiratory Appraisals To help create student goal setting, ownership and increased interest, gr. 9 & 10 students will be given the choice on the type of appraisal to measure their cardiorespiratory fitness.
Choices include:
(Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology)
Students with special needs may choose from:
All of these tests meet Canada Health standards to accurately assess the amount of oxygen consumed during intense exercise. Students can use any of these tests throughout their term, to determine their aerobic fitness level and gage their progress/improvement.
All of these tests have been approved by Canadian Health Association standards and can be found in the Healthy Active Living 2.0 text resource (Chpt. 3.2 p.88-101) provided to all our DCDSB Secondary Schools. |