Isabella Bastian

Standard 1 Reflection

EXS-397 Lab Assignment

Physical education from Pre-K-12 is extremely important and can help shape students

into knowledgeable physically active individuals for a lifetime. Creating content that has

meaning as a teacher is valuable and helpful in creating a framework for students. Students

should understand and be able to perform basic locomotor, manipulative and non-manipulative

skills. In exercise and physiology the main focus of the course was on how physical activity

affects people in their daily lives. Throughout the course formulas, cognitive thinking questions

and labs based on personal physical fitness were conducted to get a basic understanding of how

our bodies work. Comparisons to other countries' fitness norms were also conducted to see how

the United States is behind in average physical fitness recommendations. As a future teacher,

being able to see the differences in physical fitness norms from various different countries is

interesting and motivating to push content knowledge and skill knowledge across to students that

will eventually help our country become more physically fit.

In exercise science(EXS397) the focus was based on the physiological changes of the

human body during physical fitness. As a future teacher, understanding the functions of the

human body and understanding the benefits of physical activity are crucial. In the labs performed

in this class, we studied our own physical fitness levels and compared our results to normatives

from the United States and various other countries. Understanding basic fitness goals for the

United States is important because our country is ranked behind many other countries. The

United States is behind because of new technologies, available transportation, long periods of

sitting at a desk during the work week and many more. According to the CDC and Ruth
Peterson, MD, Director of CDC’s Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity “Being

physically active helps you sleep better, feel better and reduce your risk of obesity, heart disease,

type 2 diabetes, and some cancers,”. In recent studies the CDC found that one in ten deaths are

caused by inactivity. Inactivity leads to risk factors including obesity, heart problems, high blood

pressure, stroke, diabetes and many more health related issues.

A teacher needs to be knowledgeable in the risks of being an inactive adult. A teacher's

main goal is to inform and help students understand these risks to lead a healthier lifestyle.

Teachers of all subject areas build foundations for students that help them become better and

knowledgeable individuals. The most important knowledge a child can gain is how physical

fitness will benefit them and help them throughout their life. Sharing content on how to prevent

illnesses and risks due to a lack of physical activity and fitness can be extremely beneficial to

students. Using assessments like the Test of Gross Motor Development, second and third edition

is a beneficial way to see where students physical abilities range based on their age and sex.

Using comparisons to norms in our state can help motivate students to become more physically

active if the right content knowledge is being shared to show students the benefits of being

proficient in basic skills.

In EXS-397 I conducted a field test of physical fitness on myself and used my results to

compare to United States physical fitness norms and Sweden physical fitness norms. During the

assessment I ran on a treadmill for twelve minutes and tracked my aerobic capacity which is the

ability for the heart and lungs to get oxygen to muscles throughout the body. Understanding

aerobic capacity is important because it can indicate if someone has a cardiovascular issue or it

can help a person see if they need to work on their aerobic abilities more. Aerobic activities can

prevent obesity, prevent illnesses, produce more stamina, strengthen your heart and boost your
mood. After I conducted my experiment on the treadmill I recorded my heart rate and total

distance run in meters during the twelve minute assessment. In the next step I found the velocity

I ran at by dividing the meters I ran by the minutes I ran. By finding this data I was able to

calculate my aerobic capacity using the formula, “VO2 max = 132.853 – (0.0769 x your body

weight in lbs) – (0.3877 x your age) + (6.315 if you're a male or 0 if you're a female) – (3.2649 x

12(the amount of time)) – (0.1565 x your heart rate at the end)”(Marty, E 2020) When I

compared my results to the recommendation by the United States my results were considered

good. When I compared my results to the recommendation by Sweden my results were

considered average. Seeing my results compared to the Sweden recommendations was surprising

and helpful in understanding how the United States needs to promote physical fitness more

sufficiently. By helping students compare their fitness scores to recommendations from the

United States and various countries that are above the United States in physical fitness, it can

help promote physical fitness and the importance of living a healthy lifestyle.

The motor development theory suggests that movement is crucial for development

throughout our life and it begins from the time we are born to the day that we die. Creating

content for students based on developmental foundations as a physical education teacher is

crucial to lead and demonstrate a healthy lifestyle. The domains of effective physical education

are psychomotor, cognitive and affective. Many physical education teachers have the perception

that physical education class should be all movement and little instruction and content

development. As a future educator it is important to understand the cognitive domain, which is

the thinking, facts, terms, concepts and relationships of the content the students are expected to

understand. Knowledge is the key takeaway for physical education. Although the physically

active aspects are extremely important, it is important for students to understand why the
physical activities we do daily are important and beneficial to our lives. A proficient and helpful

teacher is able to use the psychomotor (physical), cognitive (thinking), and affective (social)

domains to create a framework for students that will be memorable and helpful to them in the

future.

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