M.D Up To Lecture 9 Flashcards
Physical Literacy
• The foundation of SOCIAL, BEHAVIOURAL, and FITNESS related skills that children need to possess or develop in order to receive the benefits of physical activity and support for lifetime enjoyment and success!
Social/cognitive
•understanding of movement, safety and knowledge of body, rules
(Body awareness-sensory info)
(How to play safely and objective of game)
Behavioural
•capacity to preform movements efficiently
Fitness
•have the functional capacity to preform the actions
Someone who is physically literate
- demonstrate economy of movement and confidence in many physically challenging situations
- have the ability to read the environment, anticipate and respond efficiently with intelligence and imagination
Economy of Movement
•can be MEASURED
- “smooth”
- energy minimizing
Physically challenging
•a continuum (small-large)
•a relative term depending on age and body scaling
-easy for one is hard for another
“Read” the environment through:
•Sensory skills
- how we sense the world
- touch, vision, taste, smell and hearing
•cognitive skills
- perception of shapes, size, plays, weights, surfaces…
- decision making
- motor programming
Physical Literacy Model: Interactions
- fundamental motor skills
- PA Behavior
- physical fitness
- knowledge and understanding
Fundamental motor skills
• capacity to perform basic actions professionally
-ex. Throw, kick, jump, run, walk
PA Behavior
- Beyond intentions, what are people actually doing daily?
* how does it match the DPA guidelines (CSEP)?
Physical fitness
• functional capacity for cardio-respiratory endurance, muscular strength, flexibility
Knowledge and understanding
- attitudes towards health behaviours
- Applications of why increase PA and decrease sedentary behaviour are important
- understanding of why food and exercise prescriptions are present and dosages
