"Bakit mababa ang grades mo diyan eh PE lang yan?”I've heard this question from the parents a few times, and I'm aware that some subject teachers are also disparaging this component and think their area of expertise is superior than physical education. Although I personally have nothing against anyone, I do feel that as educators, we should not tolerate any discrimination, especially if our primary objective is to provide the child with the most comprehensive education possible.
If you don't take the time to learn anything, you will never be able to understand it. Understanding physical education in a deeper sense is what we do as physical educators.
I would like to use this occasion to give some knowledge about this topic in a way that illustrates how physical education is integrated or incorporated into other fields of study. First of all, Physical Education is Science. Without a solid understanding of science and access to its many elements, a physical educator cannot effectively teach physical education. To further understand how physical exercise affects the body, a physical education teacher must draw on the fields of anatomy and physiology, biomechanics and kinesiology, to mention a few. Physical education integrates values. For teaching sports or any other physical exercises that would groom one to be an athlete, for instance, the power of discipline is fundamental. The medium of instruction used to teach physical education in high school is English. This demonstrates unequivocally that physical educators are including the use of syntax, patterns, and terminology, for instance, to successfully communicate with the students. A simple illustrations that Physical Education is embedded with Mathematics is when calculating a student's body mass index to determine whether their weight is a healthy proportion to their height. Kinesiology and Biomechanics' foundation is clearly embedded with Mathematics too.
It is fairly safe to argue that each topic is equally vital to the others because they work together to give students a better grasp of the world around them. Thus, saying “PE” lang yan or “MAPEH” lang yan, is a blatant sign that you, as teachers or as parents, are not considering the child's overall learning by undermining other learning areas.
#Respect all subjects!
