Building Support for Your Program

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Chapter 33

• Building Support for Your Program

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Chapter 33 Key Points

• Support from a variety of sources is required to
  develop a program
• Support for physical education is important
  because it is
• Generally regarded as less important that other
  subjects
• Expensive to maintain
• Building support requires more than being a
  successful teacher. You need to be also a
  politician, a public relations director and a
  fundraiser.

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Chapter 33 Key Points

• Building Support
• First build a good PE program
• Principal Most important support educate them
  about your program
• Colleagues Win them over by helping them
  understand the value and quality of your program
• Parents Are particularly helpful in acquiring
  external funding
• School Board Cultivate positive relationship
  right from the start and invite them to your
  program
• Community support can enhance your program
• Legislator May be necessary to contact
  legislator regarding how legislation may affect
  your program.
• Students Children themselves are a source of
  support when they talk positively about your
  program

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The Populations Needed to Support Your Program

• School administration (principal)
• Colleagues in your school
• Parents
• School board
• Community at large
• Legislators
• Students

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Ideas for Gaining Support from the Seven
Populations

• Gaining Support from Your Principal
• You and your principal observe a physical
  education program in a nearby school
• Invite your principal to visit your classes and
  follow-up the visit to talk about what he or she
  saw
• Ask your principal to view videotapes of other
  teachers
• Give your principal articles and books that are
  relevant to your program

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Ideas for Gaining Support from the Seven
Populations (cont)

• Gaining Support from Other Teachers in Your
  School
• Work on a collaborative project together
• Work with a classroom teacher to complete writing
  assignments for physical education in the
  classroom
• Find ways to in-service classroom teachers
  about your program
• Invite a teacher to observe his or her class in
  physical education class
• Make a point to develop rapport with teachers (at
  lunch, etc.)

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Ideas for Gaining Support from the Seven
Populations (cont)

• Gaining Support from Parents
• Attend PTA (PTO) meetings regularly, even if
  youre not required to do so
• Talk to parents, and invite them to visit your
  program
• Present a program for parents, involving as many
  children as possible, that represents attend your
  program
• Send a beginning of the school year letter
  home, informing parents about your program,
  rules, how you can be reached, and so forth
• Develop a monthly or quarterly newsletter for
  parents
• Use bulletin boards to display students work and
  to let others know about your program

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Ideas for Gaining Support from the Seven
Populations (cont)

• Gaining Support from Parents (cont)
• Send good news notes about a childs
  accomplishments
• Use positive phone calls to communicate
• Write letters to your students
• Hold an open house several nights a year
• Schedule a parents work night
• Organize a family run
• Schedule a speaker for parents only
• Invite parents with special skills to share them
  with your physical education classes (i.e. karate
  expert, step-aerobics instructor)