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Article: Should physical education programs incorporate a "free friday" or weekly "play day"? (Issues).
- Article from:
- JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
- Author:
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Free Fridays and weekly play days have no place in a physical education program. Physical education teachers need to conduct structured programs while using their class time wisely. The time spent in today's physical education classes is already short enough. Free play is for recess time or outside the classroom. Some teachers may meet their students only two times a week and the idea that one of those days is a play day is absurd. Physical education teachers must spend their class time teaching skills and games that students can take away from the class and apply on their own time. A physical educator's job is not to supervise children playing freely, but to provide ...
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... ... donations," Kline said. "The community has just been great." Downs, the school's physical education teacher, organized the pupils' play day. "The first five years we had a dance for the students, then we switched to this field ...
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