Grading Policies

Recommended Grading Policy for Health and Physical Education - Secondary

Grades in Health and Physical Education should be directly related to the students' achievement of instructional objectives that have been developed from state and local essential elements of instructional and educational goals.

I. Health

1. Major - 50 percent (Tests, major projects, research papers)
2. Minor - 35 percent (Quizzes, projects)
3. Other - 15 percent (Daily grades, homework)

II. Physical Education: Individual Sports/Team Sports

1. Major - 70 percent (Full and active participation)
2. Minor - 20 percent (Psychomotor assessments to evaluate learning based on observable skill development, consistency, and improvement including: motor skill tests)
3. Other - 10 percent (Cognitive assessments including written work and/or oral work related to mastery of knowledge concerning sports rules, physical fitness concepts, body mechanics, skill technique, and various other information regarding movement of the human body)

III. Physical Education: I - A: Foundations of Personal Fitness

1. Major - 50 percent (Full and active participation in all fitness labs and fitness activities, tests)
2. Minor - 35 percent (Quizzes, projects)
3. Other - 15 percent (Daily grades, homework)

IV. Conduct Grades for all Physical Education Classes:

A conduct grade will be based upon individual effort that is apparent in the performance of the daily program and on the practice of sportsmanship, team play, and other cooperative skills. Every student starts the grading period with 100 points. By meeting the objectives of physical education through active participation during each class period and following the rules and regulations, each student is capable of maintaining an "S" in conduct.

V.  Dressing for activity requirements:

Dressing out on a daily basis is a requirement of physical education to enhance motor skill development and for purposes of hygiene and safety. In compliance with each instructor's recommendation, students will use school furnished uniforms. Students are to make arrangements to also bring the appropriate footwear. If the student has the appropriate footwear (tennis shoes/rubber soles court shoes), he/she is eligible to earn the daily "Active Participation" points. If the student has inappropriate footwear to safely participate in the day's activity (boots, heels, sandals, barefoot, slip on or non-laced shoes, fashion sneakers), he/she is not eligible to earn "Activity Participation" points for the day's activity with the class. The TEA Draft for Orientation of Accreditation Teams makes this statement about dressing and grades: "...failure to dress-out or refusal to participate can affect students' grades. For example, if a district has a policy requiring students to dress appropriately for the activity in physical education and a student does not bring tennis shoes to the gymnasium, the student may receive a zero or the minimum score authorized by the district for any activity other students receive a grade for on that day."

Junior high physical education is offered at the 6^th, 7^th and 8^th grades.