Monday, September 21, 2009
Using physical fitness as a punishment
Why is it the "old school" way to use running or any type of physical fitness as a way of discipline or a punishment. All that we are doing as physical educators is turning off the students to physical activity, ultimately ruining students scores in Presidential's Challenge and the Fittnessgram due to a lack of love for physical fitness. Also, it is such a disgrace and a cop-out for us as educators to tell the student's, "just go run!" On that note, it makes it super simple to be a physical educator and we do not want to be notorious for just having anyone out on the street take our job. We should correlate fitness as being fun, and do fun things such a DDR or Wii fit. We can trick the student's brains to want that feeling they get after a good workout. I feel that many physical educators are still on that mentality, and it needs to change.
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I totally agree with you on this aspect. We are here to encourage physical activity not make students hate it. If a student needs discipline have them write a paper on the positive results of exercise or nutrition while the other students participate in the activity. The student will learn something practical and probably want to participate after that because it will be more exciting than writing a paper. This might not be the right answer for every student but I know for sure as a physical education major we need to keep finding new innovative ways to keep the students motivated.
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