2014 NCPE - A Change for the Better?
What does the future hold for PE?
The NCPE 2014 combined with issues that arroused within the white paper (2010) go hand in hand towards a future of first class teachers being able to deliver a curriculum that can be adjusted and adapted fully to suit all pupils. Aiming towards our competitors across the world in education, South Korea who are topping the ranking tables for numerous subjects (White Paper, 2010). The current governments aims are to encougarge teaching to become a highly respected proffession, as it already is in many other countries that appear to be striving further away from England as each academic year passes (White Paper, 2010).
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With recent documentation and policies being released it seems history is repeating itself as 25 years previous, "physical activity programmes (were) newsworthy items" (Kirk & Tinning, 1990).
Preparing students for the futuristic world!
According to Teaching 2020 initiative in the UK, in Fisher (2011), the curriculum on a whole is set to change to prepare the youth for unstable environments via teaching "ways of knowing rather than sunject knowledge". To relate this directly to PE the change appears to be along the route of 'teaching games for understanding', a process during which pupils are given the oportunity to discover how to best play a game through actual game play. This allows pupils to learn and instill tactical and team play that is fully transferable to a number of games, or "increasingly disorganised environments" (Fisher, 2011). Resulting in a child who is skilled in the broader sense of understanding the game rather than simply being skilful at the game. Read more ...
Oportunities for children to experience a wide variety of activities is vital to encourage life long participation in physical activity. Horse riding would provide oportunities for physical activity along with responsibility and safe practise lessons, whilst allowing for further sporting adventures such as polo, horse ball or western style riding. The limitations of such activities is of course funding, but with the obesity an inactivity acccademic within the UK now, funding for justified activities will be available within future years.