Today’s session of physical education was mainly about physical literacy and how we could provide physical literacy experience to the students that we will be teaching.

As we discussed in our class, we agreed that physical literacy is about the being able to engage in various physical activities with competence and confidence. This not only benefits self-esteems of the students but their overall health and lifestyle in general.

The main question is, how do we implement this into classrooms and help students to achieve certain amount of physical literacy?

I think the word “brain break” stood out the most throughout the discussions today and I assume that it was also the case for many other teacher candidates as well as they were also talking about how they agreed that it could really help out with helping students to focus more in whatever they are doing.

I think “brain breaks” can be very useful in implementing physical activities into the classroom even when it is not a P.E. class setting. Just simple things like stretching or walking outside for 5 minutes can be a “brain break”. I think as a teacher candidates, we can also use these to make it into habit for students to try it for themselves outside of school as well.

However, more importantly within the physical education class, it is crucial that the teacher guides the students into a environment where physical activity is fun and also helpful and beneficial in many areas. Without this, P.E. class will only become a place of games and sometimes a place of competition where people will be judged by there individual capacity and skills of a physical activity.

I think many good discussions have been going around today as well.