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A physical education course at Arizona Christian University.
This course is designed to give prospective physical education instructors a foundation for teaching team sports. It will include an analysis of skills, discussion of developmental appropriateness, terms, basic rules for traditional (such as basketball, football, baseball, hockey, volleyball) and non-traditional team sports (such as cricket, flag football, pickle ball, ultimate frisbee). Students will also be taught strategies for effective teaching of physical education in the K-12 classroom, including developmental appropriateness, differentiation and classroom management. This course is taught with a biblical worldview touching on the essential questions such as - "What is truth?," "What is beauty?," "What is justice?," and "What is goodness?"
Engage the Course Material
Build a working understanding of teaching team sports as the course's central subject.
Apply Discipline Methods
Use the methods, vocabulary, and frameworks of the discipline to address course problems.
Connect Course Content
Connect this course's content to broader work in the discipline and related fields.
Demonstrate Course Competencies
Demonstrate the specific competencies the course is designed to develop.
A Biblical Worldview treats the work of mathematics and teaching as careful, honest engagement with what's true and with the students who learn from it.
PHE310 is part of ACU's physical education curriculum. Explore the programs that include it.
