PE

Everyone knows this one was coming sooner or later. As a PE and health major i have to stand up and defend my discipline. However, i am also required to criticize it because i have too much love for it to see it slip down the rungs of the educational ladder. Now im not saying PE teachers are necessarily more important than other areas; we are just looking for a place at the table. A lot of people see a PE teacher as a person who throws out the ball and tells the kid to go play. And to be honest i have seen teachers do this and you will know that i can be a PE teachers greatest supporter, but i can also be their biggest critic. What PE teachers need to do is bring back the academic meaning to Physical Education, rather than it be play time for kids. Instead assign a few papers asking them what they learned, and give tests about meaningful content. Yes it's more work but the students will learn more. At first this will probably be met with great resistance, but it is at the utmost importance that we have the fortitude to continue to improve our discipline and the students.