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Welcome to my PHYSICAL EDUCATION Website! 

This web site is to provide students and parents with information and resouces that would enhance the student's physicl education experience.                                                                    

Hello,

 

I am Larry Austin a Health and Physical Education teacher at High Point High school in Prince Georges County Maryland.  My courses of instruction for the 2007-2008 school years are as follows:

 

Period 1A     Planning

Period 2A     Advance weight training

Period 3A     Team sports 2

Period 4A     Advanced Weight training

Period 1B     Planning

Period 2B     Team Sports 3

Period 3B     Team Sports 1

Period 4B     Team Sports 4

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My Educational Philosophy
 
1. Lines of communication: I believe as an educator you must know how to communicate with your students given there levels of understanding and knowledge.
2. Understanding the instructor’s limitations: It is my philosophy to try to teach everyone the same, but we all know that is not going to happen. It is my duty to know when I am going too far for a minority of students at the expense of the majority. I am speaking in terms of teaching and re-teaching in order of obtaining results of the class.
3. Knowing your audience: A strong point of my teaching has always been my ability to adapt to the student’s needs. I believe it is important to reach the student in your way that is understood.
4. Striking from different medians: No one wants just a lecture all the time or even group work or individual work. In order to establish a flourishing classroom, you should hit the students with information from many different point of views.
5. Laying down the Rule: You must have control of your classroom at all times. With the way the school system is now you have less and less control over what you can do. But how your class is run should never be an issue, you must have that in control at all times.

All information on this site is for educational purposes only.  Materials on this site may not be used with out written permission.
 

“Of all subjects taught in school, Physical Education is the only subject which, by the very nature of its content, has the potential to affect how a person will feel every moment of every day for the rest of his or her life”
…Allen Russell