Legal Basis of Physical Education BSIT 1-B

Legal Basis of Pathfit 1 BSIT 1-B

• UNESCO (1978): Declared physical education and sports as basic human rights, essential for physical, mental, and social well-being.
• Philippine Constitution (1987): Requires the promotion of physical education to develop healthy and disciplined citizens.
• Republic Act No. 5708 (1969): Mandates PE programs in schools to promote physical, mental, and social growth, as well as personal discipline.

Purpose of Tertiary PE

• PE helps students stay healthy, build self-discipline, and gain confidence through physical activities.
• It teaches the importance of taking care of one's health, supporting an active and fulfilling life.

Goals of Tertiary PE

• Encourage active lifestyles to counter sedentary habits.
• Help students manage stress and break up long periods of inactivity in class.
• Build school pride and teamwork through sports.
• Ensure everyone has access to enjoyable physical activities.

Benefits of PE

• Promotes healthy living and fitness.
• Helps individuals fight diseases like COVID-19 by improving health and resilience.
• Encourages lifelong habits of physical activity, stress management, and well-being.
• Essential for overall growth and helps students lead healthier, happier, and more productive lives.

Importance of Physical Education

• Provides cognitive content and instruction designed to develop motor skills, knowledge, and behaviors for physical activity and physical fitness.
• Supporting schools to establish physical education daily can provide students with the ability and confidence to be physically active for a lifetime.
• Lesson Objectives: Students should know the importance of physical education and identify the reasons.

Physical Development

• Helps students develop motor skills, muscular strength, cardiovascular health, flexibility, and hand-eye coordination.

Mental Health

• PE can help reduce stress, anxiety, and depression, and improve mood, energy, and sleep quality.

Academic Performance

• PE can improve concentration and well-composed behaviors, leading to better academic performance.
• Social skills development.
• PE helps students develop social skills and leadership qualities, discipline and responsibility, essential for success in sports and other areas.

Cultural and Cognitive Development

• PE helps prepare students to become contributing members of society.
• In addition to cultural development, PE helps prepare students to become contributing members of society.

Components of Physical Education

• Health-Related Fitness: Focuses on physical abilities that improve overall health, reduce disease risk, and enhance daily life (endurance, strength, flexibility, body composition).
• Skill-Related Fitness: Focuses on abilities like agility, balance, coordination, power, reaction time, and speed, which enhance performance in sports and physical tasks.

Health-related Fitness Components

• Cardiovascular Endurance: Ability to exercise for a long time (e.g., running, swimming).
• Muscular Strength: Maximum force muscles can exert (e.g., lifting heavy weights).
• Muscular Endurance: Ability to perform repeated movements (e.g., push-ups).
• Flexibility: Range of motion in joints (important for activities like gymnastics).
• Body Composition: Percentage of body fat compared to muscle and other tissues.

Skill-related Fitness Components

• Agility
• Balance
• Reaction time
• Speed
• Power

Core and Mobility Training Concepts

• Core Training: Focuses on strengthening the muscles in the torso (abdominals, back, and hips) vital for stability, posture, and balance, and improving performance in physical activities.
• Key Benefits: Improves posture and spinal alignment, enhances balance and coordination, supports other movements (lifting, twisting, bending), reduces risk of injury.
• Mobility Training: Improves range of motion in joints and muscles, focuses on increasing flexibility, joint health, and muscle length, enabling better movement control and reduced stiffness.
• Key Benefits: Increases joint flexibility and muscle elasticity, reduces risk of injury, enhances performance in physical activities, and aids in faster recovery.