• GLE-PE1112


    Colorado Model Content Standards
    For Physical Education
    11th and 12th Grade Level Expectations
     
    Standard 1: Students demonstrate competent skills in a variety of physical activities and sports.
    Eleventh and Twelfth grade students will:
    ● participate in a tennis match using all of the basic skills, rules, and strategies with
    consistency.
    ● pass the Red Cross intermediate swimming requirements.
    ● get 9 out of 10 arrows on the target from 40 feet.
    ● navigate a kayak skillfully and safely through whitewater.
    ● use advanced offensive and defensive shots successfully in a racquetball game against
    an opponent of similar skill.
    ● demonstrate several skills in gymnastics before explaining some biomechanical
    principles that govern the movement.
    ● use internal and external information to modify movement during performance.
     
    Standard 2: Students demonstrate competency in physical fitness.
    Eleventh and Twelfth grade students will:
    ● explain the overload principle and design a personal fitness program where this
    principle is in operation.
    ● participate regularly in physical activities that contribute to the attainment of and
    maintenance of personal physical activity goals.
    ● willingly participate in games, sports, dance, outdoor pursuits, and other physical
    activities that contribute to the attainment of personal goals and the maintenance of
    wellness.
    ● monitor exercise and other behaviors related to health-related fitness.
    ● maintain appropriate levels of cardiovascular and respiratory efficiency, muscular
    strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition necessary for a healthy
    lifestyle.
     
    Standard 3: Students demonstrate the knowledge of factors important to participation in physical activity.
    Eleventh and Twelfth grade students will:
    ● design a long-term plan for self-improvement in a movement activity and explain the
    relationship of physical, emotional, and cognitive factors that influence the rate of
    improvement.
    ● identify the effects of age, gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status and culture
    upon physical activity preferences and participation.
    ● understand the ways in which personal characteristics, performance styles, and
    activity preferences will change over the life span.
    ● feel empowered to maintain and improve physical fitness, motor skills, and
    knowledge about physical activity.
    ● use the results of fitness assessments to guide changes in his or her personal program
    of physical activity.
     
    The following Physical Education expectations exceed the Colorado Model Content
    Standards. As a result of participating in a quality Physical Education, it would be
    reasonable to expect that the student would be able to perform the following.
    Eleventh and Twelfth grade students will:
    ● encourage others to apply appropriate etiquette in all physical activity settings.
    ● respond to inflammatory situations with mature personal control.
    ● diffuse potential conflicts by communicating with other participants.
    ● create a safe environment for their own skill practice.
    ● take a supportive role in an activity.
    ● cheer outstanding performances of opponents as well as the “favored” team.
    ● identify the effects of age, gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and culture
    upon physical activity preferences and participation.
    ● display a willingness to experiment with the sport and activity of other cultures.
    ● develop strategies for including persons of divers backgrounds and abilities in
    physical activity.
    ● derive genuine pleasure from participating in physical activity.
    ● enter competition or activity voluntarily.