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NCATE/NASPE STANDARDS	DESCRIPTION OF STANDARD	DOCUMENT OF ARTIFACT
Standard 1 Skill and Fitness Based Competence	Physical education teacher candidates are physically educated individuals with the knowledge and skills necessary to demonstrate competent movement performance and health enhancing fitness as delineated in the NASPE K-12 standards.	Fitnessgram Results Description: The FitnessGram Results advise you on what you should do to improve your personal health and fitness levels even if you have reached a healthy fitness zone. It shows the results to your fitness gram and possible ways to improve or help maintain your personal fitness levels. This tool also suggests flexibility, aerobic, and strength activities/exercises that will help improve or maintain your personal fitness levels. Connection to Standard: Helps guide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to demonstrate competent movement performance and personal health enhancing fitness. <>It also demonstrates how to help maintain your level of body composition by suggests a healthy nutritional diet and participating in more aerobic, flexibility, and strength exercises which are good for your muscles, joints, and heart. Graphical Summary Description: This tool gives you a visual representation of your data on a graphical easy to read scale. It rates your biometrics in response to your height and weight by being normal, underweight, overweight or obese. It rates your systolic and diastolic blood pressure from normal to severe, your cardiovascular fitness from very poor to superior, and your body composition from excellent to obese. In addition it also rates your overall fitness levels from poor to excellent. Connection to Standard: With this tool students gain the knowledge and skills to establish and maintain physical fitness. They can use this tool as a visual aid to help them increase their overall fitness and possibly alter some of their unhealthy lifestyles to acquire a normal or improved fitness level to benefit their own personal health.
Standard 2 Scientific and Theoretical Knowledge	Physical education teacher candidates know and apply discipline specific scientific and theoretical concepts critical to the development of physically educated individuals.	Brochure Description: Illustrates and enhances ones knowledge on what you can expect in our Physical Education Program Connection to Standard: Explains philosophical concepts critical to the development of physically educated individuals Data Summary Description: Data Summary is a tool utilized to illustrate your general information such as your biometrics and demographics. It also gives you a synopsis of your personal health risk appraisal by answering a series of personal questions that evaluate your possible health risk factors. This tool also calculates your total body composition. Connection to Standard: Exemplifies possible risk factors to ones health and is a helpful tool to possibly warn an individual of their health risk factors early enough to help change or modify their unhealthy lifestyle habits. People are able to apply these concepts to their everyday life in order to maintain a healthily lifestyle. Target Heartrate Description: This tool is used to calculate a persons target heart rate. This illustrates where a persons heart rate should be at based upon age, gender and physical activity. This calculation may not be accurate but is used as a guide or an approximation of one's heart rate calculation. Connection to Standard: This is considered a scientific concept that is critical to the development of physically educated individuals because a person's heart rate may determine an inability or weakness in one's performance. It may also determine an illness if your way below or above your target heart rate.
Standard 3 Planning and Implementation	Physical education teacher candidates plan and implement a variety of developmentally appropriate learning experiences and content aligned with local states and national standards to develop physically educated individuals.	Powerpoint Description: Exemplifies whats to expect for the course and is a visual guideline for students to follow and apply physical education to their lives. Connection to Standard: Develops appropriate learning experiences for specific grade levels
Standard 4 Instructional Delivery and Management	Physical education teacher candidates use effective communication and pedagogical skills and strategies to enhance student engagement and learning.	http://www.peclogit.org/logit.asp Pedometer Steps; Activity Facts Description: These tools are beneficial to help a person take "steps" to a healthier lifestyle. The pedometer is a great way to measure your calories burned determined by the number of steps you take daily or during an activity. You calculate your weight and stride length which helps determine the distance and number of calories burned. The Activity facts provide you with healthy tips and information to help you lead a healthier lifestyle. Connection to Standard: This tool definitely aids in the enhancement of students engagement and learning on the subject matter. Students are able to manage their life-style themselves by using the simple beneficial tool of the pedometer and help burn extra calories by just taking a few extra steps a day.
Standard 5 Impact on Student Learning	Physical education teacher candidates utilize assessments and reflection to foster student learning and inform instructional decisions.	Activitygram Description: ACTIVITYGRAM provides information about your normal levels of physical activity. The ACTIVITYGRAM report shows what types of activity you do and how often you do them. It includes information about the activities you take part in for two or three days during one week. There is an activity pyramid which reveals the different types of activity that you reported doing over a few days; the time profile that illustrates the activity level you reported for each 30 minute period of the day; and a chart which shows the number of minutes that you reported doing moderate (medium) or vigorous (hard) activity on each day. Connection to Standard: This will help to promote good fitness and wellness because it gives feedback on your daily activities and tells you what you should do change or modify in your lifestyle. It also suggests other activities and is a great tool to help students reflect and manage their daily activities in a healthy manor. Activity Log Report Description: This Activity Log Report illustrates the amount of time (in minutes) in which you perform daily activities per month. You must record each amount of time you perform an activity per day and if there is a check mark in the Calendar (per day) than that means you have met your daily goal for that day. Connection to Standard: The Activity Log Report allows students to maintain their personal health by meeting their daily goals of participation in activities. This allows students to either increase or decrease the amount of physical activity daily in response to their log. This tool is a great benefit to a students awareness of their personal health. Personal Profile Description: This tool is a representation and reflection of the benefits of physical activity and the risks of inactivity, they will be more likely to adopt and follow a healthy lifestyle. It’s designed to improve the knowledge and physical health of students. The personal profile reflects your understanding of the definition of physical fitness and the relationship between physical activity and health. It also administers recommendations and tips on reducing stress and unhealthy behaviors and maintaining good nutrition and safety. It gives you facts about alcohol, drugs, tobacco, nutrition, controlling body weight, physical activity benefits, and violence. Connection to Standard: The more a person knows about physical fitness, the more likely a person is to follow a healthy lifestyle. Students are able to reflect upon their healthy actions as well as unproductive actions and are able to obtain helpful accommodating facts and tips on ways to reduce unhealthy behaviors and expand their knowledge of productive/benefiting decisions to their personal health. Pedometer and Polar Heart Rate Activity Description: These are useful and beneficial ideas of how a Physical Education teacher can incorporate certain activities in a students developmental life through the use of pedometers and heart rate monitors. These activities help educate students in motivating them to continue lifetime fitness throughout their lives and teach them certain ways in which they can maintain a healthy lifestyle. It is important for students as well as teachers to learn about what a pedometer calculates and what a heart rate monitor measures.
Standard 6 Professionalism	Physical education teacher candidates demonstrate dispositions essential to becoming effective professionals.

CORE VALUES The Adelphi University School of Education	DESCRIPTION OF VALUE	DOCUMENT OF ARTIFACT
Scholarship	Teachers must be scholars who value and engage in lifelong learning.
Reflective Practice	Our educational philosophy stresses the value of learning through meaningful activity and reflection within a community of scholars/educators.	Powerpoint Description: Exemplifies whats to expect for the course and is a visual guideline for students to follow and apply physical education to their lives. Connection to Standard: Develops appropriate learning experiences for specific grade levels Fitnessgram Results Description: The FitnessGram Results advise you on what you should do to improve your personal health and fitness levels even if you have reached a healthy fitness zone. It shows the results to your fitness gram and possible ways to improve or help maintain your personal fitness levels. This tool also suggests flexibility, aerobic, and strength activities/exercises that will help improve or maintain your personal fitness levels. Connection to Standard: Helps guide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to demonstrate competent movement performance and personal health enhancing fitness. It also demonstrates how to help maintain your level of body composition by suggests a healthy nutritional diet and participating in more aerobic, flexibility, and strength exercises which are good for your muscles, joints, and heart. Activitygram Description: ACTIVITYGRAM provides information about your normal levels of physical activity. The ACTIVITYGRAM report shows what types of activity you do and how often you do them. It includes information about the activities you take part in for two or three days during one week. There is an activity pyramid which reveals the different types of activity that you reported doing over a few days; the time profile that illustrates the activity level you reported for each 30 minute period of the day; and a chart which shows the number of minutes that you reported doing moderate (medium) or vigorous (hard) activity on each day. Connection to Standard: This will help to promote good fitness and wellness because it gives feedback on your daily activities and tells you what you should do change or modify in your lifestyle. It also suggests other activities and is a great tool to help students reflect and manage their daily activities in a healthy manor. Graphical Summary Description: This tool gives you a visual representation of your data on a graphical easy to read scale. It rates your biometrics in response to your height and weight by being normal, underweight, overweight or obese. It rates your systolic and diastolic blood pressure from normal to severe, your cardiovascular fitness from very poor to superior, and your body composition from excellent to obese. In addition it also rates your overall fitness levels from poor to excellent. Connection to Standard: With this tool students gain the knowledge and skills to establish and maintain physical fitness. They can use this tool as a visual aid to help them increase their overall fitness and possibly alter some of their unhealthy lifestyles to acquire a normal or improved fitness level to benefit their own personal health. Low Intensity Medium Intensity High Intensity Description: The object of the low, medium, and high intensity workouts are to illustrate the amount of effort put forth to perform a certain task/activity. Students attached a flexible heart rate monitor to their bodies which calculated their average beats per minute in each intensity level. Students also wore a watch to calculate the time elapsed which helped determine the students heart rate as well. Each intensity level that was recorded was made into a visual aspect when converted into a graph that illustrated each intensity level based upon the students heart rate. The low intensity workout was low activity where you don't exert too much effort. The medium intensity workout would include a more active workout such as jogging. The high intensity workout was a full body workout which would include running/sprinting. Connection to Standard: Exemplifies the importance of your target heart rate when preforming diverse tasks at a variety of difficulty levels. This tool allows students to learn new ways of monitoring their heart rate due to the effects of different intensity levels. This is a fun and active way to help students calculate their heart rate while participating in physical activity.
Social Justice	We frame our learning and strive within the cultural, historical, and material contexts of our diverse communities.
Inclusive Community	Our philosophy embraces community and collaboration.
Wellness	Our concept of learning is holistic. Values and personal growth in the physical, mental, social, emotional, and spiritual domains should be nurtured.	Nutrition Description: This is a great tool to use for people who are trying to watch what they eat and to also obtain information on which activities one can preform to burn a specific amount of calories in a specific amount of time. It also gives you a nutrition analysis based upon your own diet. Connection to Standard: Emphasizes personal wellness and growth in physical, mental social, emotional and spiritual domains. Enables one to help control and maintain a nutritional balanced diet which promotes overall wellness. Personal Profile Description: This tool is a representation and reflection of the benefits of physical activity and the risks of inactivity, they will be more likely to adopt and follow a healthy lifestyle. It’s designed to improve the knowledge and physical health of students. The personal profile reflects your understanding of the definition of physical fitness and the relationship between physical activity and health. It also administers recommendations and tips on reducing stress and unhealthy behaviors and maintaining good nutrition and safety. It gives you facts about alcohol, drugs, tobacco, nutrition, controlling body weight, physical activity benefits, and violence. Connection to Standard: The more a person knows about physical fitness, the more likely a person is to follow a healthy lifestyle. Students are able to reflect upon their healthy actions as well as unproductive actions and are able to obtain helpful accommodating facts and tips on ways to reduce unhealthy behaviors and expand their knowledge of productive/benefiting decisions to their personal health. Data Summary Description: Data Summary is a tool utilized to illustrate your general information such as your biometrics and demographics. It also gives you a synopsis of your personal health risk appraisal by answering a series of personal questions that evaluate your possible health risk factors. This tool also calculates your total body composition. Connection to Standard: Exemplifies possible risk factors to ones health and is a helpful tool to possibly warn an individual of their health risk factors early enough to help change or modify their unhealthy lifestyle habits. People are able to apply these concepts to their everyday life in order to maintain a healthily lifestyle.
Creativity and the Arts	Creativity and vision are inherent qualities of a good teacher. The creative process allows us to reflect on our world as well as to envision ways of making it more humane, just, and beautiful.	Brochure Description: Illustrates and enhances ones knowledge on what you can expect in our Physical Education Program Connection to Standard: Explains philosophical concepts critical to the development of physically educated individuals

N.Y STATE STANDARDS	DESCRIPTION OF STANDARD	DOCUMENT OF ARTIFACT
Standard 1 Personal Health and Fitness	Students will have the necessary knowledge and skills to establish and maintain physical fitness, participate in physical activity, and maintain personal health.	Activitygram Description: ACTIVITYGRAM provides information about your normal levels of physical activity. The ACTIVITYGRAM report shows what types of activity you do and how often you do them. It includes information about the activities you take part in for two or three days during one week. There is an activity pyramid which reveals the different types of activity that you reported doing over a few days; the time profile that illustrates the activity level you reported for each 30 minute period of the day; and a chart which shows the number of minutes that you reported doing moderate (medium) or vigorous (hard) activity on each day. Connection to Standard: This will help to promote good fitness and wellness because it gives feedback on your daily activities and tells you what you should do change or modify in your lifestyle. It is a great tool to help students reflect and maintain upon their personal health while participating in physical activity. Activity Log Report Description: This Activity Log Report illustrates the amount of time (in minutes) in which you perform daily activities per month. You must record each amount of time you perform an activity per day and if there is a check mark in the Calendar (per day) than that means you have met your daily goal for that day. Connection to Standard: The Activity Log Report allows students to maintain their personal health by meeting their daily goals of participation in activities. This allows students to either increase or decrease the amount of physical activity daily in response to their log. This tool is a great benefit to a students awareness of their personal health. Graphical Summary Description: This tool gives you a visual representation of your data on a graphical easy to read scale. It rates your biometrics in response to your height and weight by being normal, underweight, overweight or obese. It rates your systolic and diastolic blood pressure from normal to severe, your cardiovascular fitness from very poor to superior, and your body composition from excellent to obese. In addition it also rates your overall fitness levels from poor to excellent. Connection to Standard: With this tool students gain the knowledge and skills to establish and maintain physical fitness. They can use this tool as a visual aid to help them increase their overall fitness and possibly alter some of their unhealthy lifestyles to acquire a normal or improved fitness level to benefit their own personal health. Personal Profile Description: This tool is a representation and reflection of the benefits of physical activity and the risks of inactivity, they will be more likely to adopt and follow a healthy lifestyle. It’s designed to improve the knowledge and physical health of students. The personal profile reflects your understanding of the definition of physical fitness and the relationship between physical activity and health. It also administers recommendations and tips on reducing stress and unhealthy behaviors and maintaining good nutrition and safety. It gives you facts about alcohol, drugs, tobacco, nutrition, controlling body weight, physical activity benefits, and violence. Connection to Standard: The more a person knows about physical fitness, the more likely a person is to follow a healthy lifestyle. Students are able to reflect upon their healthy actions as well as unproductive actions and are able to obtain helpful accommodating facts and tips on ways to reduce unhealthy behaviors and expand their knowledge of productive/benefiting decisions to their personal health. Low Intensity Medium Intensity High Intensity Description: The object of the low, medium, and high intensity workouts are to illustrate the amount of effort put forth to perform a certain task/activity. Students attached a flexible heart rate monitor to their bodies which calculated their average beats per minute in each intensity level. Students also wore a watch to calculate the time elapsed which helped determine the students heart rate as well. Each intensity level that was recorded was made into a visual aspect when converted into a graph that illustrated each intensity level based upon the students heart rate. The low intensity workout was low activity where you don't exert too much effort. The medium intensity workout would include a more active workout such as jogging. The high intensity workout was a full body workout which would include running/sprinting. Connection to Standard: Exemplifies the importance of your target heart rate when preforming diverse tasks at a variety of difficulty levels. This tool allows students to learn new ways of monitoring their heart rate due to the effects of different intensity levels. This is a fun and active way to help students calculate their heart rate while participating in physical activity.
Standard 2 A Safe and Healthy Environment	Students will acquire the knowledge and ability necessary to create and maintain a safe and healthy environment.	Data Summary Description: Data Summary is a tool utilized to illustrate your general information such as your biometrics and demographics. It also gives you a synopsis of your personal health risk appraisal by answering a series of personal questions that evaluate your possible health risk factors. This tool also calculates your total body composition. Connection to Standard: Exemplifies possible risk factors to ones health and is a helpful tool to possibly warn an individual of their health risk factors early enough to help change or modify their unhealthy lifestyle habits. People are able to apply these concepts to their everyday life in order to maintain a healthily lifestyle.
Standard 3 Resource Management	Students will understand and be able to manage their personal and community resources.	Nutrition Description: This is a great tool to use for people who are trying to watch what they eat and to also obtain information on which activities one can preform to burn a specific amount of calories in a specific amount of time. It also gives you a nutrition analysis based upon your own diet. Connection to Standard: Emphasizes personal wellness and growth in physical, mental social, emotional and spiritual domains. Allows students to use this tool as a guide to their own successful nutritional diet and be able to understand how to reduce or increase specific needed nutrients in their diet. It also allows students to choose and preform actives they are comfortable with in order to burn calories.

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Last updated May 11, 2008