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5 unusual facts about Physical Education


Bel Air Middle School

The school has been recognized by the Maryland State Department of Education for its long-term participation and success in the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance's Hoops for Heart program, in which it has raised more than $200,000 during the past decade, the second-most in the country during that period.

Boris Stenin

Despite having studied the world's best speed skaters in recent years, Stenin still did not have extensive practical knowledge and after the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, he went to work at an institute for Physical Education.

Brian Simpson

Before being elected an MEP he worked as a PE teacher in Liverpool and was a County Councillor for Merseyside County Council, a Member of the Merseyside Police Authority, Deputy Chair of the Liverpool Airport and Councillor at Warrington Borough Council.

Physical education

Other technologies that can be used in a Physical Education setting would include video projectors, GPS and even gaming systems such as Kinect, Wii Fit and Dance Dance Revolution.

The policy was outlined in a Ministerial Statement to the Victorian Legisaltive Assembly by the Minister for Educational Services, the Honourable Norman Lacy MP on 17 September.


Adapted physical education

Enacted in 1990 (and reauthorized in 1997 and 2004), IDEA was the reauthorization of PL 94–142 and continued the emphasis upon FAPE, IEP, LRE, and physical education as a direct educational service.

Br. Andrew Gonzalez College of Education

The Physical Education Department offers Physical Education and Fitness classes to the undergraduate students of the University.

Columba Catholic College

The Primary Curriculum at Columba Catholic College is designed to emphasise the basic skills of numeracy and literacy, whilst integrating the Key Learning Areas (KLA's) of Religious Education , English, Maths, Science, Studies of Society and Environment, Languages other than English (LOTE), Health and Physical Education, The Arts and Technology.

Cyncoed

Various courses are now taught on the Cyncoed campus of Cardiff Metropolitan University, but it is most famous for its physical education department which has produced various sports people from its students, including: Dai Davies; Lynn Davies; Gareth Edwards; Clive Griffiths; Greg Thomas; Steve Watkin.

Geronimo Goeloe

He has a bachelor's degree in physical education learning and teaching, at this point conducting a master's degree course in English as a second language.

Glenridge Middle School

The remaining sixth class is then either filled by the IB Exploratory Wheel, for IB students, which will offer the student a different class every nine weeks for that period (which are Spanish, Video Production, Physical Education, and Technology).

Gym Teacher: The Movie

Dave Stewie (Christopher Meloni) is a middle school PE teacher who sees a forthcoming award as a way to redeem himself of his greatest regret, a failure to make the 1988 US Olympic Team.

Gymslip

The introduction of the gymslip as female athletic wear is credited to Martina Bergman-Österberg, the founder of a college for training female physical education teachers in Hampstead.

HM Prison Acklington

Education and vocational courses at the prison include: Woodwork; Tailoring and Textiles; Industrial workshops; Engineering workshops; Painting and Decorating; Bricklaying; Amenity Gardening; Market Gardening; Laundry; Physical Education; Waste Management and Catering, all of which include accredited qualifications.

HM Prison Channings Wood

The prison provides educational courses to prisoners, include Barbering, Business Studies, Catering, Industrial Cleaning, Creative Media Studies, Customer Services, Driving Theory, Dry-Lining, Electrical Installation, ESOL, Food Hygiene, Fork Lift Driving, Horticulture, Information Technology, Painting and Decorating, Physical Education and Yoga.

Horace S. Carswell, Jr.

After graduation from North Side, Horace attended college at Texas A&M University for a year as a member of the class of 1938, and then began attending Texas Christian University (since four of his uncles were Methodist preachers) where he graduated in August 1939 with a bachelors degree in physical education.

Hug High School

Today Hug offers classes in English, from English as a Second Language up to Advanced Placement levels, mathematics from Algebra I to Calculus AB, sciences such as Biology, Chemistry and Physics, Spanish, French, Industrial arts and physical education, as well as numerous elective courses.

International School of Beaverton

The school offers various standard courses in the areas of English (aka. Writing, or Literature), Math (such as Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, Calculus, Trigonometry, et cetera), Science, (such as Biology or Chemistry), Social or Global Studies (with areas such as World History, US History, and Humanities), Physical Education and Health, as well as electives such as "Band", "Art", or "Choir".

Josephine D'Angelo

She became a physical education teacher and later received a master's degree from Chicago State University, spanning a 34-year career in the Chicago Public Schools system until her retirement in 1980.

Lady Mabel Fitzwilliam

From 1949 to 1974, Wentworth Woodhouse was changed into a College of Physical Education, for this period the college was named after Lady Mabel, as she had brokered the deal for its establishment, allowing the family to maintain private apartments.

Logan Couture

Coming from an athletic family, his father, Chet Couture, is a firefighter who played OHA senior hockey for 13 years and is a veteran National Lacrosse League (NLL) referee, while his mother, Lori Couture, a graduate of Brock University, is a physical education teacher at Lucas Secondary School.

Monsterland and Monster Island

The Simpsons: In the episode "Lisa on Ice", Lisa imagines being sentenced to Monster Island for failing Physical Education.

Park Si-Hun

Park earned a bachelor's degree in physical education at Kyungnam University and served as a high school physical education teacher in Jinhae, Gyeongsangnam-do until 2001 when he was named an assistant coach of the South Korea national amateur boxing team.

Rio Claro, São Paulo

Rio Claro hosts one public university, UNESP, offering courses in Geology, Geography, Environmental Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Physical Education, Ecology, Biology and Pedagogy (teacher training).

Ruskin Sports College

In keeping with its specialisation in physical education, the three houses were named after famous athletes: Woods, named after golf player Tiger Woods; Charlton, named after Sir Bobby Charlton, who officially re-opened Ruskin Sports College on 29 September 2002; and Radcliffe, named after Paula Radcliffe.

Sergei Pavlovich Baltacha

Baltacha is currently a physical education teacher and tutor at Bacon's College in South East London, having formerly been a physical education teacher at Geoffrey Chaucer Technology College (Old Kent Road, London) and a coach at the Charlton Athletic academy.

Tanta University

In 2006, Kafr ash Shaykh branch separated from the Tanta university to become an independent university under the name of Kafr ash Shaykh University in Kafr ash Shaykh city and it now has Education, Agriculture, Specific Education, Veterinary Medicine, Commerce, Engineering, Physical Education and Arts faculties.

Tom Rafferty

Rafferty earned his Bachelor of Science in physical education from Penn State University in 1976, and later earned an MBA from the University of Dallas.

William Alcott

His works, which include a wide range of topics including educational reform, physical education, school house design, family life, and diet, are still widely cited today.

Yasuhiro Kido

After graduation of Ishida high school, Kido entered at faculty of Physical Education at Kokushikan University.


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Ágnes Keleti

Following her retirement from competition, Keleti worked as a physical education instructor at Tel Aviv University and the Wingate Institute for Sport in Netanya.

Albert I. Prettyman

After spending time at Columbia University and the Nicholas School in Buffalo, New York, Prettyman moved to Hamilton College in Clinton, New York to teach physical education and coach.

Alberto Rujana

Rujana is a graduate of the South Colombian University, where he studied Licenciatura en Educación Básica, con énfasis en Educación Física, Recreación y Deportes (Bachelor of Primary Education with emphasis on Physical Education, Recreation and Sports).

Boreal Loppet

In 2002, the idea of organizing a competition of long distance cross-country skiing (loppet) north of Forestville make his way trough the mind of Dave Delaunay, physical education teacher, and Eric Maltais, langage teacher of the local high school and both keen skiers.

Charles Beck

He taught physical education classes with a curriculum modeled after Jahn's system, and translated Jahn's 1816 work Deutsche Turnkunst into English as Treatise on Gymnasticks, taken chiefly from the German of F. L. Jahn.

Chilwell Olympia

It is run by Broxtowe Borough Council with the aim of meeting the recreational and sporting needs of the locality as well as the physical education needs of the pupils at Chilwell School.

Chris Lewington

During his time playing non-league football, Lewington studied at University achieving a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physical Education and Sport.

Dave Trembley

Trembley taught and coached baseball for three years (1977–1979) at Daniel Murphy High School in Los Angeles and was the head baseball coach for five years (1980–84) at Antelope Valley College in Los Angeles County, where he also was a physical education instructor.

Denis Dyack

He has a Bachelor of Physical Education Degree from Brock University.

Elizabeth Janeway

Never a supporter of the Communist Party or even a socialist, she did breathe the progressive air of 1930s New York City; she always laughed as she described how she and a Barnard friend met their physical education requirement by improvising a tap-dance version of The Internationale.

Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha

Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha is owned by the Department of Sports, Physical Education and Recreation of Distrito Federal.

Gary McGinnis

From 2011 to Present, he teaches in the Physical Education Department of St. Aloysius College, Milson's Point, Australia and teaches PE and PDHPE.

Hessle High School

It is in a federation with Hessle Penshurst Primary School, and has arrangements with local gymnasiums, including Total Fitness, for Year 10 and 11 Physical Education lessons.

Iceland University of Education

The division of Sport and Physical Education is located at Laugarvatn campus in the south of Iceland, approximately 90 kilometres from Reykjavík.

Indian Trail High School and Academy

Lack of proper facilities allowed the physical education department to include activities not found in other high schools, such as Dance Dance Revolution, bowling (at a nearby bowling alley), cross-country skiing, archery, and street hockey.

J. Martin Klotsche

The J. Martin Klotsche Center for Physical Education on the UWM campus is named for him.

Jim Lefkos

Lefkos then became a physical education and health teacher as well as the boy's soccer coach at Danforth Collegiate and Technical Institute.

Joe Black

After his career ended, Black taught health and physical education at Hubbard Junior High School in Plainfield, New Jersey, and later became an executive with Greyhound in Phoenix.

John Howard Starr

He was Professor of Physical Education and Chairman of the Department of Physical Education and Intramural Athletics, Colgate University, 1926-1965.

Jon Callard

Callard taught physical education classes and sports classes at Downside School (Somerset) in the early to mid-1990s.

Josh Francou

Josh Francou has also worked as a part-time Physical Education teacher at Banksia Park International High School and Pulteney Grammar School in South Australia.

Koji Murofushi

Among the favorites at the 2004 Summer Olympics, he eventually won the gold medal after the disqualification of Adrián Annus, and in 2004 gained a doctorate in physical education from the Chyukyo University, in Nagoya, where he is now an associate professor in the Faculty of Sports Science.

Konstantinos Kenteris

Born in Mytilene, Kenteris, a student of physical education, started practising athletics at age 10, and started running seriously about ten years later, when he moved to Thessaloniki.

Kuniyoshi Obara

Influenced by Plato, Erasmus and Swiss education reformer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, this philosophy promoted a balanced and individualized approach to the development of the student in the six aspects of truth (veritas; academic ideals), goodness (bonum; moral education), beauty (pulchritudo; art education), holiness (sanctitas; religious education), health (sanitas; physical education) and wealth (copia; vocational education).

L. J. Cooke

Cooke came to Minnesota in 1895 to be the director of physical education for the YMCA in Minneapolis after completing his M.D. at the University of Vermont.

Margaret Varner Bloss

Margaret Varner Bloss (born October 4, 1927) is a retired American athlete and professor of physical education from El Paso, Texas who excelled in three distinctly different racket sports: badminton, squash, and tennis.

Nelson Prudêncio

He was also Professor in Physical Education at the Federal University of São Carlos and vice-president of Confederação Brasileira de Atletismo (Brazilian Athletics Confederation).

Nenad Baćina

During his professional football playing career he graduated at the University of Split as a professor of Physical Education and Sport Science.

Nick Whitehead

He would later teach Physical Education at Carnegie Physical Training College in Leeds, now part of Leeds Metropolitan University and eventually became Director of Development at the Sports Council for Wales (now Sport Wales).

Nicolas Beaudan

After spending eight years at the French National Institute of Sport and Physical Education (INSEP), he left in 2004, wanting better results, despite a team gold medal at the European Fencing Championships in 2002.

Nikolay Yevseyev

He graduated from the Lesgaft University of Physical Education in Saint Petersburg, where he was coached by Gennadi Touretski.

Olga Madar

In 1938, she graduated from Eastern Michigan University (formerly Michigan Norman School) with a degree in physical education.

Osmania University

There are eight such colleges and they are University College of Arts and Social Sciences, University College of Commerce & Business Management, University College of Engineering, University College of Law, University College of Science, University College of Technology, Institute of Advance Study in Education, and PG College of Physical Education.

Paul Creighton

Creighton received his Bachelors Degree in Health/Science from SUNY Brockport in New York and his Masters Degree in Health and Physical Education from Radford University in Radford, Virginia.

Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University

Institute of Social and Economic Education (departments: Social and Psychological Education, Physical Education, Economics);

Ropes course

A French naval officer in the early 1900s, Hébert developed his own method of physical education, apparatus, and principles to train in what he called the “Natural Method,” which included the development of physical, moral, and “virile” qualities in an outdoor environment.

Roza Chumakova

In parallel, she studied at the Moscow State University of Railway Engineering, then Moscow State Linguistic University, and then at the Moscow Institute of Physical Education (GTSOLIFK), graduating in 1949.

Scouts of Greece

During the 1908 Summer Olympics, in London, Athanasios Lefkaditis, a young physical education teacher, observed with interest the British Scouts' service and activities at the Games.

Swami Kuvalayananda

Dr. Josephine Rathbone, a professor of health and physical education, visited from Columbia University in 1928.

Taras Mykhalyk

After graduating from the Vocational technical school in his region, Mykhalyk enrolled in the Institute of Physical Education at the Volyn National University, and played in the team there that participated in the championship of the Volyn Oblast.

Vinnie Tortorich

He also worked at Newman High School in New Orleans as a physical education teacher where Archie Manning's sons attended.

Wasim Raja

He studied for a certificate in education from Durham University, and had a spell teaching geography, mathematics and physical education at Caterham School in Surrey.

Wilbur Wade Card

In 1902, he was invited by President John Carlisle Kilgo to return to Trinity College and become director of the new physical education program there.

World Organization Volleyball for Disabled

The game of Volleyball was created by William G. Morgan,a YMCA physical education director, on February 9, 1895, in Holyoke, Massachusetts (USA).

Yanis

Yanis Kanidis (1930–2004), a Greek-Russian physical education teacher

Young Corbett III

Beside the boxing career, he was a physical education teacher for the California Highway Patrol and a grape grower.