Expectations & Guidelines

TUALATIN HIGH SCHOOL PHYSICAL EDUCATION EXPECTATIONS AND GUIDELINES

PHILOSOPHY & GOALS:   

The Tualatin Physical Education Department offers classes designed topromote physical fitness, poise, and coordination through the learning of skills and knowledge in various sports and activities. In the various Physical Education courses, students will have the
opportunity to develop fundamental motor skills and patterns. Students will learn how to achieve/maintain an optimum level of physical fitness through fitness training (including target heart rate training), as well as sports activities,including self-management and social behavior skills (teamwork).

Students will be given the opportunity to improve and/or maintain their own personal level of fitness, especially flexibility, and cardiovascular and muscular endurance. Students will be encouraged to develop a physically active lifestyle, where they can use the knowledge and skills learned in their classes to enjoy a regular schedule of physical activity for life, to insure physical stamina necessary for everyday healthful living.

GRADING:

Your grade will be based on 3 areas (with 6 pts. possible per day)

 RESPONSIBILITY: 

1. Physically being in class on time and dressed with proper clothing (shorts or sweats, T-shirt/polo shirt, socks, athletic shoes, sports bra)
2. Quietly sitting in proper roll call order
3. Showing self-control/proper behavior
4. Following instructions in a timely manner
5. Entering the gym, weight room, or wrestling room only when a teacher is present
6. Handling equipment only after instructed to do so by a teacher.

PARTICIPATION:

• Active participation in all activities with proper attitude and behavior
• Time on task

PERFORMANCE:

• Work according to individual capabilities.
  
• Capable of using previously taught knowledge (rules of game, strategies, fundamentals, etc.) Example: Hold tennis racket properly for each stroke, know where to stand, know how to keep score and understand the rules.

GRADING SCALE:

93-100% =A
85-92% =B
77-84% =C
70-76% =D
<70% = F

EXPECTATIONS:

All students are to use a school lock (not one from home)and the locker assigned to them. Student will pay a lock deposit to the bookkeeper and bring the lock receipt to their teacher the second day of class.

A basic requirement for all personal fitness classes will be to complete their physical fitness testing at the end of each quarter. The test results will go into their portfolio.

All students are expected to dress down daily. Since this is a participation-based class, it is of the utmost importance that each student dresses down EVERY DAY. The consequences for not dressing down are as follows: IF AVAILABLE, students may borrow loaner clothes. It is not the P.E. Department's responsibility to provide loaner clothes.

Students without clothes will be excused to Supervised Study with a PE-related writing
assignment (worth 2 points) that is due to the SS teacher at the end of the period.

If a student develops a pattern of not dressing down, the teacher will call a conference (may be a phone conference) between parent/student/teacher to further communicate class expectations.

Sick or injured students will be asked to show that they have their appropriate PE attire at
school and then given the option of 1) dressing down and participating to the best of their
current ability for full credit or 2) going to the Health Room for the entire period with the
opportunity to make up for full credit (see makeup policy)

ABSENCES AND MAKE-UP POLICY FOR EXCUSED ABSENCES:

Students can only make-up an excused absence.

Admit slips are issued by the Student Affairs Office. (Parent needs to call 431-5631 or write a note to excuse the absence within one day of return) Students are to bring this admit slip to class and will not be admitted without it. Unexcused absences result in detention.

Absences are to be made-up in the TuHS Weight Room after school or at the Swim Center during an Open Swim or Lap Swim.The TUHS Swim Center phone number is (503) 431-5655. Call for hours. Check in with the supervisor on duty (at either weight room or pool) when you arrive, work out for 70 minutes, and get supervisor's signature on a makeup slip when you leave. Return this slip to your teacher within a week of your absence.

Only one absence can be made up per day.

You may only make up FOUR absences per quarter. Anything over four days must be approved by the Physical Education Department.

Prolonged injuries or illnesses may require you to drop the class and reschedule to take it at another time.

A doctor's note will be needed for any student who attends class but cannot participate due to illness or injury for more than three school days or two class periods. (A/B Schedule)

TARDIES:

• All students are expected to be in the locker room before the tardy bell rings.
• Locker room doors will be locked and roll will be taken seven minutes after the tardy
• bell rings at which time all students are expected to be quietly seated in roll call order in the gym.
• Four tardies per quarter equals a detention.
• Any student that is over 15 minutes late with a pass will be asked to make up the entire
• period. No pass, no make-up.

GENERAL RULES:

• No gum, food, or drink in class.
• No hats or coats are to be worn in class.
• No pagers, cell phones, walkmans, or other music devices are allowed in class.
• Bring student planners to class and leave them in your PE locker.
• No jewelry is to be worn in class.

PROPER CONDUCT:

• Be respectful to all students and faculty.
• Use proper language. (No Profanity)
• Respect all school facilities and equipment.
  

Stay in the locker room behind the designated line until the dismissal bell rings.