Exam Coverage
Exam coverage for the FTCE Physical Education K-12 Exam includes
the knowledge, skills, and instructional practices required to teach
physical education effectively across elementary, middle, and
secondary grade levels. It focuses on motor skill development,
movement concepts, physical fitness principles, sports and
recreational activities, health-related fitness, and lifetime wellness
practices. The exam also evaluates understanding of curriculum
planning, instructional strategies, student assessment methods,
classroom and activity management, adaptive physical education,
safety and injury prevention, biomechanics, exercise physiology, motor
learning, professional responsibilities, and compliance with
,educational standards and policies applicable to K-12 physical
education programs.
Using national and state standards to guide effective development of
a curriculum will ideally
result in a program that
reflects continuity and coherence across the K-12 scope.
,In a 4th-grade class, a physical education teacher groups students
into sets of two to work
together. One student identifies the source of mistakes made by the
second student. On
the teacher's predetermined signal, the students switch roles. Based
on this information,
which of the following curriculum models is the teacher using?
Peer Teaching Model
, Which of the following best illustrates a benefit that physical
education students receive from
cross-curricular links?
increased awareness by students of the relevance of all subjects
Which of the following soccer modifications would increase the
probability of success for all
players?
widening the goal