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Leyla Shill
September 10, 2015
PPE 310 Mon 7:30-10:15
Curriculum: 60%
Looking good in some key areas. Keep up the great work!
What are at least two strengths and two weaknesses of your school?
Two strengths that my school has is one, they offer a lot of
extracurricular sports outside of school to kids, and two, the students that
take P.E. they have it every day. Two weaknesses is one: that there is
little to no posters or signs about health and fitness at the school, and two:
there are no snack options at school.
What are at least two ways to improve the policies in place at your
school? Explain detailed information for each way and what you expect from
each way.
The first way we can improve the policies in place at my school is
post more bulletin boards and posters promoting health and fitness
throughout the entire school. Doing this would help bring more awareness
to students and with a variety of posters about topics students can learn
something new that is relevant and meaningful to them.
The second thing that my school can do to improve its policies is
consider adding snack options at school. One way of doing this is by
adding a vending machine on the campus. By only offering healthier
snack options, would help students to have food available to them, but
eliminate high fat and sugar foods. It could also help students from
packing unhealthy snacks. Also, eating food is very important at the
middle school age, and giving kids snacks can help them to focus better in
school.
What are at least two ways that you can you use this information to engage
administration, teachers, parents, students and the community in promoting more
healthful behaviors? Include a specific description for how to use the results from
the School Assessment Tool as well as your ideas for improvement.
I think that educating our student about healthy choices is important
so that they can make educated decisions for themselves. I think that if
teachers and parents realized how little health was being promoted
around the school on a general basis they would be more than happy to
make the necessary changes. My school also has a huge amount of
parent involvement so I think that is something that they as a PTA would
want to take on and support. I think the biggest part of this problem is the
lack of awareness of the deficit and bring that awareness would help solve
the problem in itself.
I am not quiet sure how to solve the problem of the lack of snacks
available than simply informing others of the problem. My suggestion for
fixing the problem was to get a vending machine with healthy snacks. In
order to do this I would have to get a vending machine, and that is where I
would have to talk to the PTO. After that the rest would be easy to stock
the machine, and to get students excited about using the machine.
How can the information obtained be used to support your potential topic for the
Signature Assignment?
This information is very valuable to help me with the potential topic
of my signature assignment. First of all, I am now aware of my schools
strengths and weaknesses, and areas that I can help out to improve the
health and fitness of my students and the rest of the school. I do not think
that I will do my signature assignment on any of the topics I talked about,
but it makes me understand the importance of evaluating my school, and
seeing how I personally can make it better.
School Information
References:
Arizona Report Cards. (n.d.). Retrieved September 13, 2015 from
https://azreportcards.com/ReportCard?school=81057&district=-1
Ward Traditional Academy. (n.d.). Retrieved September 13, 2015 from
http://www.schooldigger.com/go/AZ/schools/0831003112/school.aspx
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