Curriculum: Physical Education


Program Purpose

District Mission Statement
Farmington Public Schools, together with our community, will provide quality learning experiences empowering each student to become a thoughtful, contributing citizen in a changing world.

Physical Education Program's Unique Purpose
Farmington Public Schools' physical education program will work with the community to provide each student with a programmed sequence of experiences that will facilitate their physical, social and mental development, and equip them with the knowledge, attitudes, skills and capacities to engage in a lifetime of health-related physical activity.

Farmington Public Schools Physical Education Student Profile
In accordance with the National Association of Sport and Physical Education Outcomes of a Physically Educated Person, and Michigan's Department of Education Physical Education Core Curriculum, and in consideration of the available instructional resources available to the physical education program, a graduate of Farmington Public School's Physical Education program will:

Fundamental skills
Master a variety of fundamental motor skills that will facilitate appropriate physical, motor-neural and cognitive development, enhance safe successful participation in a wide spectrum of lifelong physical activity, and facilitate the future acquisition of competence in the games, sports and other lifelong activities as their circumstances and interests change.

Cognitive concepts
Know the benefits of living an active lifestyle, know how to plan, implement and assess their own physical activity program so as to obtain the documented benefits of living a physically active lifestyle, and know how to engage in lifelong activities common to the culture.

Fitness Capacities
Engage in health-related physical activity regularly in a fashion that results in achieving and maintaining healthy levels of aerobic fitness, muscular strength and endurance in the trunk, arms and legs, and flexibility in the trunk, arms and legs.

Affective Character Traits
Demonstrate personal/social character traits that will contribute to their personal success, enhance their ability to contribute to society, and provide access into the wide range of movement cultures they may choose to enter now and as their life circumstances change.