Post by jdelisa on Jan 27, 2009 5:12:13 GMT -5
while it was nice to see one of Wantagh's best & brightest teachers mentioned in a story, it wasn't until later that I realized that our District was being mentioned for the wrong reason:
On a recent morning, the "Rocky" theme song blared through the Wantagh Elementary gym as about 20 fourth-graders rotated through stations, some stretching their quadriceps - the class "muscle of the month."
The music stopped and students sat in clusters at teacher Anthony Ciuffo's feet. He told the class to find their pulses and they touched fingers to their necks or wrists. "By now your heart should be beating a little faster," he said.
Ciuffo and another P.E. teacher try to pack heart-pumping activities into 40-minute periods at Wantagh, where there is one large gym and a smaller one.
But by giving students an average of two physical education classes each week, totaling about 80 minutes, the school falls short of state regulations. Complying, Ciuffo said, would require another gym and another teacher.
the whole story is in Sunday Newsday January 25, 2009: www.newsday.com/news/printedition/longisland/ny-liphys256012039jan25,0,2764179.story
the article says that too little gym-time is common statewide, according to audits and word of mouth, and that the NYS Educ Dept "requires that students in grades K-3 participate in P.E. every day, for a total of at least 120 minutes weekly. In grades 4-6, students must have at least 120 minutes spread over three days a week. In grades 7-12, students must have P.E. at least three times a week one semester and twice a week in the other semester."
just want we need, another facility, staffing and best-use-of-time-during-the-teaching-day issue to work through...
On a recent morning, the "Rocky" theme song blared through the Wantagh Elementary gym as about 20 fourth-graders rotated through stations, some stretching their quadriceps - the class "muscle of the month."
The music stopped and students sat in clusters at teacher Anthony Ciuffo's feet. He told the class to find their pulses and they touched fingers to their necks or wrists. "By now your heart should be beating a little faster," he said.
Ciuffo and another P.E. teacher try to pack heart-pumping activities into 40-minute periods at Wantagh, where there is one large gym and a smaller one.
But by giving students an average of two physical education classes each week, totaling about 80 minutes, the school falls short of state regulations. Complying, Ciuffo said, would require another gym and another teacher.
the whole story is in Sunday Newsday January 25, 2009: www.newsday.com/news/printedition/longisland/ny-liphys256012039jan25,0,2764179.story
the article says that too little gym-time is common statewide, according to audits and word of mouth, and that the NYS Educ Dept "requires that students in grades K-3 participate in P.E. every day, for a total of at least 120 minutes weekly. In grades 4-6, students must have at least 120 minutes spread over three days a week. In grades 7-12, students must have P.E. at least three times a week one semester and twice a week in the other semester."
just want we need, another facility, staffing and best-use-of-time-during-the-teaching-day issue to work through...
