Physical Education

Department Head: Jake Dueitt

 

Physical education courses are designed to increase the student’s awareness of the importance of physical activity in creating a healthy lifestyle. Students are encouraged through physical activity to increase their fitness level. Emphasis is placed not only on participation in team sports and exercise, but in increasing awareness and participation in lifetime sports and skills that will be available to them as adults. In addition to the two required courses, electives are offered in the 11th and 12th grade allowing students to schedule PE III-IV or Athletic PE.

 

In the Freshman year, students will receive a 1/2 credit in Health Education and a 1/2 credit in Physical Education I. The Health course will enable students to make educated decisions related to their personal health, develop life-long positive behaviors, and learn about nutritional and physical well being. In addition, students will receive instruction in CPR and in the prevention of dating violence. In Physical Education, opportunities are provided for students to become involved in both individual and team based sports. The activities for the freshmen students may include: physical fitness, flag football, volleyball, track and field, basketball, and pickleball. The program shall be directed toward individual competency in skill, knowledge and attitude in these particular areas. A TCHS PE uniform is required.

 

In the Freshman year, students will receive a 1/2 credit in Health Education and a 1/2 credit in Physical Education I. The Health course will enable students to make educated decisions related to their personal health, develop life-long positive behaviors, and learn about nutritional and physical well being. In addition, students will receive instruction in CPR and in the prevention of dating violence. The Athletic Physical Education course is offered for those students participating in football, volleyball, basketball, soccer, softball, baseball, cheerleading or dance at Teurlings Catholic and provides opportunities to develop and maintain a high level of fitness and conditioning. Students will participate in a program of weight-lifting, running, and selected drills designed to develop or enhance agility, speed, and quickness as well as overall conditioning. Prerequisites: Students must be an active member of the football, basketball, volleyball, soccer, softball, baseball, cheerleader or dance teams.

 

Physical Education II is designed to offer a variety of team and individual activities, as well as to provide an introduction to lifetime sports. This approach will hopefully enable the students to participate in some activity which he/she is likely to pursue as an adult, or enjoy as a leisure sport. Physical fitness and overall personal health are again included at this level. The activities and sports offered in this course are physical fitness, field hockey, tininkling, badminton, archery, and pickle ball. Students must purchase a TCHS physical education uniform.

*Prerequisite: P.E. I/Health

 

This Physical Education class is designed for those students who are not participating in organized sports at TCH but who are interested in developing and maintaining an accelerated level of fitness. Strength-training, speed development, agility, and conditioning are emphasized as well as the study of lifetime sports.

*Prerequisite: P.E. I & II

 

Athletic Physical Education is an advanced physical education course for those students participating in football, volleyball, basketball, softball, baseball, cheerleading or dance at Teurlings Catholic and is designed to provide students with opportunities to develop and maintain a high level of fitness and conditioning. Students will participate in a year-long program of weight-lifting, running, and selected drills designed to develop or enhance agility, speed, and quickness as well as overall conditioning.  Prerequisites: Completion of Health and Physical Education I and student must be an active member of the football, basketball, volleyball, softball, baseball, soccer, wrestling, cheerleader, or dance teams.

 

The course is designed to introduce the student to the basics of care and prevention of athletic injuries. In addition to classroom study of causes and treatments for athletic injuries, students will study nutrition, hydration, prevention of heat-related illnesses and other topics.

*Prerequisite: P.E. I & II and completion of Biology I