Why is physical education a student’s most important subject? | William Simon, Jr. | TEDxUCLA

I am currently working on becoming a physical education teacher and this is extremely motivational for me. I agree with the thought that physical education should be a core class just like Math, English, and Science. The fact that it is not is very unfortunate because it is most important that as humans we have a solid understanding of how to get healthy and then keep ourselves healthy as we grow older. We need to do better, support our subject, and fight for it. Physical Education is just as important as everything else we learn in school.

Forever glad I opted out of gym class in middle and high school.

Best decision of my life.

Your worthy speech encourages us .. thanku

☺👌 Brilliant.

Fortunately, I work out more than the average person could ever dream of, I have just started focusing on it and these benefits are OP

Niceee may answer dun ko sa assignment ko

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I thought he's half his age😅

Very very true

Abolish P.E. It’s not needed in schools.

I am a PE teacher who just finished my 5th year. I try my best to lead by example and show my students that I practice what I preach. I make videos on my channel if me doing tricks and basketball dunks for fun and my students love them. I remember when I was younger how my PE teachers were obese and would roll the ball out and did not teach us anything! As I got older and knew what my purpose was, I knew I would change that narrative of the lazy PE teacher. To any PE teachers who are reading this, change the world! Our subject doesn’t have the respect is deserves but in the classroom we can still make a difference.

Amazing talk

Muito bom !

I believe there's 2 problems that fuel the issues with proper funding and priority given to physical education programs. There are older "physical educators" that just roll the ball out and let the students "play" without doing much teaching or challenging the students. I had to work with someone like this. Those educators create this view of PE as playtime and nothing to be taken serious. Physical educators coming out of good programs that promote best practices often have to work with these veterans and get blown off as idealistic. That perception influences priority and funding. I ultimately had to leave the school I was at because my colleague wouldn't get out of the way of progress. I'm currently my own department at an elementary and can implement everything I feel is appropriate to inspire these children to be active for a lifetime. Unfortunately our school's budget has no money set aside for specials. We have to write grant proposals to our school's PTO which usually approves things but like he says, there should be funding available without having to beg for it. Our children deserve it

To make PE better would also require the school lunch system to be massively improved. No wonder so many kids have low energy throughout the day. Exercise and a good diet go hand in hand

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PE is the most important subject in school.

I am a PE teacher and I am very proud of it, I have a lot of terrible social and financial familial problems in my life but during my lessons I forget everything, because I know the importance of every minute of my lessons in the life of these students and they should learn the most amount of information. I feel that this is the true meaning of my life

hello nice video

Thank you 😊 💓

Some Plato lovers here.

This is FACTS! I 150% agree with this

Who’s here because of online class today

Does recess do the same?

Me

TAGA PMI AHA MO?

Hii po

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Physical Education is a FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT!

Who's here because of face to face?

Didnt this guy run for governor of california in the early 2000s? He was a wacko conservative then… maybe hes lightened up since then?

Thank you !! nice explanation.

Kids should walk instead of be in the car for trick or treating. The car makes Halloween Candy pointless.

"pennies per pupil" !

Thank YOU sir!!!!! Our profession is STILL underestimated !
THANK YOU!!!!!

Congratulations on your "Why Is Physical Education a student's most important subject? | William Simon, Jr." inspirational thanks for sharing. 🙏💪🖒💌🤝.

ty bro ima turn this into a school paper

Yes but it is so hard do do in field ✅

February 28, 2022
for online class in P.E😊

I'm just here for the assignment
-Berendo middle schooler

Buksu student here

Despite me having to review this video, we still literally just walk in circles around the gym every day when not online.

Very inspiring! I just got hired as a PE instructor for middle school. Each class only gets 1 gym session per week.

Watching this for my (sports science with physical education) exam next week, wish me luck

My gym teachers don’t care about us at all. They just let us stand there if we want to and they don’t make us interested in the sports whatsoever. So we don’t have to exercise to become more healthy and it’s not fun. I wish we did more workouts that could actually help, can be applied at home, and is personalized to the student’s interests rather than making us (or in my case, not making us) only do sports.

Great

online class sucks

Excellent explanation👍👍👍

Teachers made everyone watch this video? Not me, I am here to learn 😮