The Master of Arts in Teaching: PK-12 Physical Education program is an initial licensure program designed to prepare qualified professional for teaching in PK through Grade 12 school settings. Applicants can be expected to learn to teach Physical Education at all grade levels. Teaching candidates can be expected to:
- Apply principles, techniques, and procedures to encourage students in developing and accessing health-related fitness
- Understand human movement, motor skills, and their developmental sequence
- Organizes activities and techniques for developing motor skills
- Guide the dynamic interaction between individuals and within groups while they are engaged in activities for personal and social development
- Apply techniques, skills, strategies, basic rules, etiquette, and safety practices for individual and group sports, as well as lifelong sports, creative movement, dance, non-competitive activities, and cooperative activities
- Incorporate the historical, philosophical, and social contexts of physical education
- Align state standards to instruction and assessment of students
- Use concepts and research-based strategies for effective instruction in a physical education program
- Follow safety practices, principles of emergency first aid, and equipment maintenance procedures, and
- Recognize legal and ethical issues that may influence physical education programs.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Prerequisites to Professional Courses | ||
| EDUC-6045 | Introduction to Theories of Learning and Cognition | 3 |
| EDUC-6435 | Introduction to Education | 3 |
| Professional Courses: Students must be admitted to Teacher Candidacy to continue | ||
| EDSC-6230 | Literacy Instruction for Content Area Classrooms: Middle and Secondary | 3 |
| EDSC-6570 | Teaching Diverse Learners at the Secondary Level | 3 |
| EDUC-6040 | Introduction to Classroom Teaching and Technology for Learning | 3 |
| EDUC-6060 | Classroom Management and Assessment | 3 |
| EDUC-6290 | Characteristics and Instruction of Exceptional Learners | 3 |
| EDUC-6415 | Professional Responsibility and Ethics for Teachers | 3 |
| EDUC-6445 | Introduction to Research: Pre-Service Teachers | 3 |
| EDSC-6605 | Content and Methods for Teaching Physical Education at the PK-12 Levels | 3 |
| Student Teaching Internship Semester | ||
| EDUC-6985 | Student Teaching Seminar | 0 |
| Select one: | ||
| EDUC-6924 | Student Teaching Internship for PK-12 Physical Education Teachers | 6 |
| EDUC-6925 | MAT Capstone 1 | 3 |
| Total Hours | 33-36 | |
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This course may only be taken with special approval of the Director of Field Experience and the Division Chair
This initial endorsement requires 32 semester hours, including 12 upper-division semester hours at the undergraduate level. The required distribution is below. Candidates are required to pass the state content test for Physical Education. Undergraduate courses can be taken at CUC or transferred in from another institution. (Undergraduate courses at CUC are generally offered during the day).
- Biomechanics
- Curriculum Design in Physical Education
- Dance activities
- Exercise Physiology
- Health-related fitness (e.g., conditioning, aerobic fitness exercise, stress management)
- Human Anatomy
- Human Physiology
- Kinesiology
- Measurement and Evaluation
- Physical Growth and Motor Development
- Teaching Individual and Dual Sports Activities
- Teaching Team Sports Activities