SELF-ASSESSMENT TEST # 2

These tasks are designed to assist you in determining if you have mastered the materials and competencies presented in the above studied information.

1. Describe the consequences to a physical education and sport program if no objectives to be achieved by the program’s participants were stated.

2. You are in attendance at a budget hearing called to determine whether your program, be it a school program, community agency program, or corporate fitness program, will be allocated much-needed additional funds. You are asked to tell why physical fitness, motor skill development, cognitive development, and affective development objectives are important objectives of physical education and sport. How do you respond to the comment that the only objective of physical education and sport is the development of fitness?

3. Survey the sports Departments of your university to determine what priority they would give to the objectives of physical education and sport. When possible, the instructor of your class should assign one or two class members to interview a specific Department member. The results of this survey of most of the University Department members should be reported to the class.

4. Summarize what you cider to be the characteristics of a physically educated person.

5. Discuss why the conceptual approach to teaching physical education is important in view of the emphasis on lifelong learning. Identify the concepts for physical education and sport objectives for a specific population, that is, preschoolers, adolescents, adults, or elderly.

UNIT IX

ROLE OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORT

IN SOCIETY AND EDUCATION

I. Read, translate and learn the key words and phrases of the unit:

a) society, trend, existence, domain, implication, impetus, emphasis, series, basic,

curriculum, percentage, frequency, duration, keystone, taxonomy

b) to influence, to describe, to take place, to conduct = to hold, to receive, to decry,

to identify, to call for, to disagree, to eliminate, to emphasize, to appear, to participate, to sustain to engage in, to be up; to support,

c) contemporary, meaningful, self-directed, societal, cognitive, affective, lifelong,

psychomotor, considerable, own, tremendous, integral, vigorous, sufficient,

adequate, appropriate

d) in many ways; to make a strong case; health promotion; disease prevention; individual responsibility; on a regular basis; to offer strong support

e) as well, thus, within, however, regardless

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