Pinoy Fail

Working abroad is literally one of the toughest job yet rewarding when it comes to compensation  you'll ever experience  especially if you're alone.  Combined physical and emotional stressed await to someone doing all the house hold chores and not to mention the nostalgic feelings that can sedate one's mood.

Many of the expats especially Filipino abroad are striving in their everyday living. from their home accommodation down to thier work place itself. Many of the Filipino workers here in abroad are working with excellence and of quality that is mainly the reason why employment from the Philippines of the blue and white collar job in any place abroad is continuously  increasing. However, in spite of being industrious of every Pinoy abroad when it comes to work still there is this stigma  of being a Pinoy..

" Crab Mentality" is a phrase which best described by another phrase " if I can't have it, neither can you". This is actually famous to all Pinoy which  ideally means trying to pull down somebody on his back just to get over him.. "playing safe" in a given circumstances is one of the underlying principle of this Pinoy stigma. actually on my personal view  playing safe towards work, office mates and especially to your superior is  everybody's cup of tea. i mean everybody does it. No doubt but on the context of professionalism, we have to  do what is right. we have to speak out and stand for your philosophy towards your craft. what happens is that,  most of the so called professionals Pinoy abroad are becoming "so-so" or "underdog" to those people who's the quality of work and knowledge is less than on what you've  possessed. The reasons  are, they want to keep the boss-employee relationship going and of favor for  him and what makes this more horrible  is that when you are in front of your colleagues you keep saying bad things and complaints on your superior. duh....

This blog is not referring to anybody. This is a mere opinion and the basis are only the encounters and here says of people around. we just hope to eradicate or at least lessen this stupidity amongst us. We dont have fight, argue nor back stubbed against each. We can always sit down and compromise things that bother us than keep barking at each other's back like a dog!

Physical Education as Educational Subject

Most of the schools today are having inadequate understanding towards Physical Education. Often times, they tend to mixed up Physical Education from Sports. even worse, they inter replace the concept of Physical Education vs. Sports or for others they tend to combined it as one.

In a survey conducted about the Physical- Activity standard in school in Dubai by the Dubai Health Authority (DHA) last November 2012, It has been found out some factors implementing a successful Physical Education program;

the school  number of hours of PE class. It is a compulsory that the students must be having  two hours of Physical Education class in a week. It entails a variety  of physical activities with all bodily movements including the warm up and conditioning activities as well. Mr. Mark Webster, the head of PE department in Jebel Ali primary school once said that " Leading a healthy lifestyle is an important life lesson and as a school it is our role to guide youngster on this path." For him it is important that during early age, students should be exposed  in Physical Activities through simplification of the lesson and making it fun so children willingly attend these classes. Song, dance, gymnastics and structured play are most likely they will appreciate to do.

In addition, Weekend sports club in school is in demand  and really something to look forward for the students and parents here in Dubai. Football, Swimming, Basketball, Cricket, Tennis and Athletics  are the common sports offered in  the said club. The objective is to promote not only sports participation but the health and fitness  related effect of it for the students. In government school in Dubai, the authority is proposing  to increase the number of hour for PE class to 150 minutes for primary and 225 minutes for secondary because of the a big incidence of lifestyle diseases happening around. 

Most of the time, as I experienced teaching PE class in one of the schools in Dubai, they are substituting the PE subject or most commonly known as PROXY with other activities or sometimes replacing PE class into maths, science or english subject suddenly just to have  make up class or for the sake of completion of the missed class by the teacher or whatever which is against the regulation. chances are, students have been suppressed with the opportunity to play and educate their body plus the frustration and  emotional effect of it to  the students will somehow occur.

Teachers competency is also one of the essential factors in a learning process of Physical Education. Some of the teachers do not differentiate  between Sports and PE and they make it very competitive. PE is an educational subject so regardless of the child's ability, they need to participate. Its  fundamental aim is to educate the body through physical activities. Sports is an organized and competitive activities  with a set of standardized rules and regulations  which also help to improve one's physical fitness. PE is a graded subject in Government school but teachers still give it less priority. Teachers' empowerment is necessary to understand that PE is not an option and every child  must be exposed to some kind of activity in the school.

It is important to start exposing a child to different physical activities at a young age for the development of the active lifestyle and will be able to carry those habits into adulthood.

Approach to Physical Activity

Whole of School Approach to Physical Activity

http://www.fitness.gov/blog-posts/whole-school-approach-physical-activity.html

This article is all about the empowerment of Physical Education program  in school setting  by putting an organized effort which stressed out the 3 vital  points to further improve the quality of the P.E program.

1. Assessing the status of physical activity and physical education in schools 

- continuous development and assessment of the physical education curriculum is important. Curriculum developers of the school has to  keep in mind the up to date trends and issues relating to physical education, also, the demand of the society which we have to meet, for instance, you are teaching in place which is most likely surrounded by bodies of water well then improve swimming  and aquatics activities in your school. if supposed you're living in USA where Basketball has been invented then might as well create a program that will promote  and enhance the skills in playing Basketball.

2.Reviewing the science behind the effects of physical activity on health, development and academic performance in youth

- Physiologically speaking if one is expose to any physical activity or just a simple loco motor movements,directly there would be a favorable effects to the body. A 15 minutes of walking every day can actually burn certain amount of calories inside your body, simple jogging, biking, running jumping and even kissing (for adult) according to study can make your muscles stretch and burn a certain amount of calories then imagine what more if  its physical activities where all of the body parts are moving. On the other hand, the academic performance of a child has something to  do with Physical Activities.Studies show that  a child who is physically active in sports  and games  has also a  great performance in academics as compare with a child who is not. Reasons are the mind and the body are getting more relax  to receive information and learning.  the emotional and social skills also are increasing that's why according to them a child has a great tendency to excel and be academically active as well.

3. Making recommendations appropriate with the scientific evidence.

- Of course there's  still room for improvement.  even if the school has a strong and concrete P.E program but if the availability of the equipment are lacking still not enough. or for example if the school has strong program and curriculum for P.E,and has  adequate and of quality sports  equipment resources, but you don't have a skilled and   competent  Physical education instructor still it won't work.

I hope that the above points will be also implemented in the school not only in states of america but to its neighboring countries as well...especially to the school which  I am working right now in United Arab Emirates.