Research On United States Physical Education Pedagogy

Research shows that the skill level of adolescence has highly relevant to activity level of adult, and participations in collective activities before the age of12have highly relevant to activity level of adult. High quality physical education for young people, improve their skill themes and confidence, will have a positive effect on their future participation in sports activities. This article study on the system of P. E. in United States a, hoping to inspire the reform of P. E. in China.United States P. E. is under the guidance of the NASPE National standards for P. E., under the guidance of the national standards for P. E., States have developed their own curricula, instruction, and assessment. United States national standards for P. E. spoke of competencies, defining "what a student should know and be able to do". The standards proposed participation sports activities as a lifestyle. It is the unique role of quality P. E. programs to help all students develop health-related fitness, physical competence, cognitive understanding, and positive attitudes about physical activity so that they can adopt healthy and physically active lifestyles. According to NASPE guidelines, a high-quality physical education program includes the following components:opportunity to learn, meaningful content, and appropriate instruction.United States Curriculum diamond suggests a curricular focus corresponding to the grade level structure-elementary, middle and high schools. In the elementary school the focus is building a foundation. In the middle school, the focus is exploring possibilities. In the high school the focus is developing expertise. United States is one of the largest the elasticity of PE teaching contents in foreign countries, content-rich, content provides detailed, strong action, teachers have lots of choice. United states PE teaching include skill themes, sport education and tactical education. Skill themes has a clear definition on skill theme and monement concept. In the course of teaching of skill themes, focusing on students' learning process:precontrol level, control level, utilization level, proficiency leve. Each level has its own content. Teachers can choice according to the student's level. In sports education they use sport education mode, give students to act as a variety of competitive sports roles, close to the real life of students, help students develop healthy lifestyles.United States P. E. include sports skill fitness and wellness. Health-Related Fitness include muscle strength and endurance, flexibility, cardiovascular efficiency and body composition. The teaching of Wellness include nutrition, personal safety, personal and social responsibility, mental and emotional healthUnited States do a lot of work to build their assessment system. Elementary school, middle school and high school have dedicated evaluation system, and they need be further researched.