P.E. produces students that can. . .

NASPE, the National Association for Sport and Physical Education, states that physical education should produce students who can:

- Demonstrate competency in many movement forms and proficiency in a few.
- Apply movement concepts and principles to the learning and development of motor skills.
- Exhibit a physically active lifestyle.
- Achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical fitness.
- Demonstrate responsible personal and social behavior in physical activity settings.
- Demonstrate understanding and respect for differences among people in physical activity settings.
- Understand that participation in physical activity provides opportunities for enjoyment, challenge, self-expression, and social interaction.


NASPE then went into further detail with their document called The Physically Educated Person.

The Physically Educated Person...

HAS learned skills necessary to perform a variety of physical activities.

1... Moves using concepts of body awareness, space awareness, effort, and relationships.
2... Demonstrates competence in a variety of manipulative, locomotor, and nonlocomotor skills.
3... Demonstrates competence in combination of manipulative, locomotor, and nonlocomotor skills performed individually and with others.
4... Demonstrates competence in many different forms of physical activity.
5... Demonstrates proficiency in a few forms of physical activity.
6... Has learned to use new skills.

IS physically fit.

7... Assesses, achieves, and maintains physical fitness.
8... Designs safe, personal fitness programs in accordance with principles of training and conditioning.

DOES participate regularly in physical activity.

9... Participates in health enhancing physical activity at least three times a week.
10... Selects and regularly participates in lifetime physical activities.

KNOWS the implications of and the benefits from involvement in physical activities.

11... Identifies the benefits, and obligations associated with regular participation in physical activity.
12... Recognizes the risk and safety factors associated with regular participation in physical activity.
13... Applies concepts and principles to the development of motor skills.
14... Understands that wellness involves more than being physically fit.
15... Knows the rules, strategies, and appropriate behaviors for selected physical activities.
16... Recognizes that participation in physical activity can lead to multicultural and international understanding.
17... Understands that physical activity provides the opportunity for enjoyment, self-expression, and communication.

VALUES physical activity and its contributions to a healthful lifestyle.

18... Appreciates the relationships with others that result from participation in physical activity.
19... Respects the role that regular physical activity plays in the pursuit of lifelong health and well-being.
20... Cherishes the feelings that result from regular participation in physical activity.