what are the objectives of physical education?

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It's pretty simple really. You want to learn how to take care of your body physically. From diet to exercise so you can live a healthy long life. I remember our PE teachers taught us everything from hygiene to the proper way to catch a ball. At the time we just thought we were having fun but that class actually taught us more useful life skills than the rest of the school curriculum put together.
 
You can find the objectives at your State's department of Education website.
Here's what they say at the Virginia Dept of Ed site:
INTRODUCTION
The Physical Education Standards of Learning for Virginia Public Schools identifies the concepts, processes, and skills for physical education in kindergarten through grade twelve. This framework provides school divisions and teachers with a guide for creating aligned curricula and learning experiences in physical education. The intent of physical education is to help students learn the skills necessary for performing a variety of physical activities and understand the benefits of achieving and maintaining a physically active lifestyle.
The physical education standards are grouped into five strands: Skilled Movement, Movement Principles and Concepts, Personal Fitness, Responsible Behaviors, and Physically Active Lifestyle. The standards in each strand are sequenced to progress in complexity from grade level to grade level. The standards are intended to provide students with the necessary knowledge, processes, and skills to become physically educated, physically fit, and responsible in their physical activity choices and behaviors for a lifetime.
Each school division’s school board is responsible for incorporating the Virginia Standards of Learning into its curriculum. The Board of Education recognizes that school divisions will adopt an instructional sequence and program that best serves their own students.



Goals and Descriptions
The purpose of physical education is to help students acquire the knowledge, processes, skills, and confidence needed to engage in meaningful physical activity both in the present and for a lifetime. The practice of leading a physically active lifestyle will bring about personal enjoyment, challenge, satisfaction, and a health-enhancing level of personal fitness. As a result of physical education instruction, the student will be able to do the following:




1. Demonstrate competence in motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities. (Skilled Movement)
This goal focuses student learning on the development and demonstration of competence in motor skills and a variety of movement forms, increasing the likelihood of participation in physical activities. Movement competence is defined as the development of sufficient skill and ability to assure successful performance in a variety of physical activities. In the elementary years, students develop maturity and adaptability in the use of fundamental motor skills and patterns that are then further refined and combined during the middle school years. As motor patterns become more refined and proficient throughout the middle years, they can be transitioned into specialized skills and patterns and used in more complex learning settings. High school students will demonstrate a level of competence in several physical activities that they are likely to continue beyond graduation.




2. Apply movement principles and concepts to learning and developing motor skills and specialized movement forms. (Movement Principles and Concepts)
This goal focuses student learning on understanding and using movement concepts and principles to improve motor skills. While the skilled-movement goal involves learning how to perform physical activities skillfully, this goal directs students toward learning about movement. Concepts and principles from various fields of study support skillful movement performance. These fields of study include motor control, exercise physiology, biomechanics/kinesiology, sport psychology, and sport sociology. Elementary students establish a movement vocabulary and use simple concepts as they develop their movements. Middle school students learn and apply more complex concepts of movement. High school students develop a working knowledge of a variety of concepts and principles, enabling them to independently apply concepts in order to acquire new skills or enhance existing skills.



3. Achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of personal fitness. (Personal Fitness)
This goal focuses student learning on the achievement of a health-enhancing level of physical fitness. Elementary students become aware of health-related fitness components (aerobic capacity, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition) while engaging in a variety of physical activities. Middle school students continue to learn about the components of fitness—how they are developed and improved, how they interrelate, and how they contribute to overall fitness. High school students plan, implement, evaluate, and modify a personal, goal-driven fitness plan that enables them to achieve and maintain a level of fitness that allows them to meet their personal goals for various work-related, sport, and leisure activities.
 
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