MOVEMENT

EDUCATION
The benefits of an active lifestyle

What is Movement
Education?

Movement Education is an approach which

involves teaching physical games and
sports, gymnastics, dance and Fundamental
Movement Skills (FMS).

It aims to excel students learning,

enhances their teamwork skills, builds on
their fitness levels and addresses problemsolving skills (NSW Department of Education
and Training, 2000).

What is Movement
Education?
FMS involves the static balance, the sprint run,

the vertical jump, the catch, the hop, the side

gallop, the skip, the over arm throw, the leap,
the kick, the two-hand strike, and the dodge. All
of these movement skills are strategically
sought out by the NSW Government and
implemented across NSW schools. (NSW
Department of Education and Training, 2000
p11)
These skills are also selected in order to align
with invasion games, target games, court/net
games and striking/fielding games. This
remedies useful for professional sports and
development in the future. (Light, 2013).

Why is it important?

Movement education doesnt just benefit

children physically, it also enhances social,
emotional, ethical and cognitive processes.
(Burdette, 2005).

It does this by addressing leadership skills,

teamwork, collaborative learning,
transformative learning along with having
affiliations to enjoyment through uses of
gross-motor activity. (Burdette, 2005).

Movement Education in
Schools

The NSW Board of Studies Teaching and

Education Standards (BOSTES, 2007)
implements movement education
throughout the syllabus with use of games
and sports, gymnastics, active lifestyle and
dance. Programming and Planning by
teachers must reflect around these subject
matters using appropriate communication
and tactical techniques.

Rationale
Taken into my own perspective, movement education
has benefited me throughout my schooling as well as
my adult-life. The use of movement education
embedded throughout my education encouraged me to
become heavily involved in ballet and I can confidently
say enhanced my social and communication skills which
has helped me work with groups in all instances.
Movement education should be implemented with
positive reinforcement, a positive outlook and a positive
approach. I plan on engaging in movement education to
the best of my ability as a future educator to therefore
provide my students with the same positive experience I
had with my physical learning experiences.

Strengths

Always enjoyable

Never the same learning experience

Influences social interactions and peer communication

Always room for skill and activity modification

Builds confidence and self-esteem

Contributes to positive mental health

Reference List

Board of Studies, NSW. (2007).Personal development,

health and physical education K-6: Syllabus. Sydney,
Australia: Author.
Burdette, H., & Whitaker, R. C. (2005). Resurrecting free play
in young children: Looking beyond fitness and fatness to
attention, affiliation, and affect.Archives of Pediatrics &
Adolescent Medicine, 159, 46-50.
Light, R. (2013). Game sense for physical education and
sport coaching. In Game sense: Pedagogy for performance,
participation and enjoyment (pp. 37-47). London, UK:
Routledge.
NSW Department of Education and Training. (2000).Get
skilled: Get active: A K-6 resource to support the teaching of
fundamental movement skills.Ryde, Australia: Author.