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- Title: Using Heart Rate Monitors for Effective Teaching and Curricular Accountability in Physical Education: A Commentary (Report)
- Author : VAHPERD Journal
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,Sports & Outdoors,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 75 KB
Description
Introduction To effectively deliver instruction whose purpose is to motivate students to exercise aerobically in their target heart rate zone is certainly one of the most desirable outcomes and expectations for today's physical educators. Yet to be certain that each student is exercising to his or her individual potential is often an elusive goal. As part of a research study already in progress, we observed that teachers tended to modify their instructional behavior over the course of an academic year in response to analyzing the student physical activity data recorded by heart rate monitors. In this article we present anecdotal observations and commentary on this phenomenon. First, we review the challenges in measuring physical activity, and briefly explore the link between teaching effectiveness and curricular accountability in physical education (PE), followed by what changes we observed in teacher behavior over time, and finally, we conclude how the changes in practices the teachers adopted may lead to effective instruction and curricular accountability in physical education.