Standard 2: Skill-Based and Fitness-Based Competence

Physical education teacher candidates are physically educated

individuals with the knowledge and skills necessary to
demonstrate competent movement performance and healthenhancing fitness as delineated in the NASPE K-12 Standards.
The only way we know whether students are understanding tasks and
movements is by assessing their activities and competence for a specific
motor skill. It is not just enough to complete a skill, but students must be
fluid in a skill or movement and must under the movements step by step. To
prevent injury students must understand what is being asked of them
physically as well as mentally. Without both physical and mental
understanding, students will not gain the full disciplines being asked of them.
Students should also demonstrate positive behavior and social values
and encourage one another to do their personal best. Within the schools,
students are required to complete fitness testing that demonstrates their
completion of a skill to the best of their abilities. Without proper form and
technique, the skills being asked of them will not be performed correctly and
the student will not score as well on fitness testing.
By practicing proper technique students will teach their bodies the
muscle movements required to perform a skill and eventually that skill will
be stored in their muscle memory and will be performed correctly more
frequently.