FEDERAL SECURITY AGENCY
U. S. OFRICE OF EDUCATION
WASHINGTON

April 20, 1943
Tos; Chairmen of College Departments of Health and Physical Education:

The widespread interest and rapid expansion in programs of physical fitness
have caused many requests to be sent to the Office of Education for suggestions
concerning the ways in which college and wniversity summer sessions might con~
tribute to the professional education of leaders for the physical fitness progran.
There are, in general, two problems that must be solved in training leaders for
the physical fitness program. These are: (1) To introduce and interpret the
program to teachers who have adequate professional preparation in health and
physical educations and (2) to give untrained teachers intensive preparation for
undertaking a relatively new job with which they are wifamiliar.

The methods that are being used by colleges end universities to help meet
these problems include, for both men and women: (1) Credit courses covering a
period of six weeks or more on Physical Fitness Through Physical Education end
Physical Fitness Through Health Education; end (2) short-term institutes covering
a period of approximately two weeks to meet the needs of teachers who cannot
attend a full term of six weeks or more.

The progrem for a short-term institute might include instruction for several
hours each day. The courses might be organized into four groups including: (1)
Courses for men on the boys! program; (2) courses for women on the boys! program;
(3) courses for women on the girls! program; and (4) courses for men and women
which everyone in attendance should take.

The units of instruction under each of these headings might be as follows:

I. Courses for men on the boys! program
Sports and games
Gymnastics and combatives
Aquatics
Tests and evaluation

II. Courses for women on the boys! program
Sports and games
Gymnastics and combatives
Aquatics
Tests and evaluation

 

 

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