Health / P.E.

MYP Health and Physical Education (Year 1-3)

The Middle Years Programme (MYP) physical and health education empowers students to understand and appreciate the value of being physically active and to develop the motivation for making healthy life choices. Physical and health education focuses on both learning about and learning through physical activity. Both dimensions help students to develop approaches to learning (ATL) skills across the curriculum. MYP physical and health education courses must engage students in physical education activities for at least half of the total teaching time allocated to the subject group.

What is the significance of Physical and Health Education in the MYP?
Physical and health education courses foster the development of knowledge, skills and attitudes that will contribute to a student’s balanced and healthy lifestyle. Through opportunities for active learning, courses in this subject group embody and promote the holistic nature of well-being. Through physical and health education, students can learn to appreciate and respect the ideas of others, and develop effective collaboration and communication skills. This subject area also offers many opportunities to build positive interpersonal relationships that can help students to develop a sense of social responsibility.

Key Concepts in Physical and Health Education
Key concepts promote the development of a broad curriculum. They represent big ideas that are both relevant within and across disciplines and subjects. Below are listed the 16 key concepts to be explored across the MYP. The key concepts contributed by the study of  physical and health education are change, communication and relationships.

Aesthetics

Change

Communication

Communities

Connections

Creativity

Culture

Development

Form

Global interactions

Identity

Logic

Perspective

Relationships

Systems

Time, place and space

Related Concepts in Physical and Health Education
Related concepts promote deep learning. They are grounded in specific disciplines and are useful for exploring key concepts in greater detail. Inquiry into related concepts helps students develop more complex and sophisticated conceptual understanding. Related concepts may arise from the subject matter of a unit or the craft of a subject—its features and processes.

Adaptation 

Balance 

Choice 

Energy

Environment 

Function 

Interaction 

Movement

Perspectives 

Refinement 

Space 

Systems

Objectives for Physical and Health Education

Criterion A: Knowing and understanding 

i. describe physical and health education factual, procedural and conceptual knowledge 

ii. apply physical and health education knowledge to explain issues and solve problems set in familiar and unfamiliar situations iii. apply physical and health terminology effectively to communicate understanding. 

Criterion B: Planning for performance 

i. outline goals to enhance performance 

ii. design and explain a plan for improving physical performance and health. 

Criterion C: Applying and performing 

i. demonstrate and apply a range of skills and techniques 

ii. recall and apply a range of strategies and movement concepts 

iii. recall and apply information to perform effectively. 

Criterion D: Reflecting and improving performance 

i. describe and demonstrate strategies to enhance interpersonal skills 

ii. explain the effectiveness of a plan based on the outcome 

iii. explain and evaluate performance.

*Information on these pages is from the MYP Subject Guides and the MYP Project Guide. International Baccalaureate Organization. 2014. Print.