Physical Education

 

Mr. Joe Laws jlaws@epiphanychicago.org

He is Epiphany School’s Physical Education Teacher.
All students from Pre-K through eighth grade meet with him weekly. physical Education is a comprehensive program that stresses locomotion skills in kindergarten and 1st grade and progresses to peer teaching in 8th grade.

Within our Physical Education curriculum we include health lessons such as nutrition, body awareness, cardio vascular fitness, life long fitness and emotional well being.

Mr. Laws is a graduate of the University of Illinois with a B.S. in Physical Education and a Minor in Recreation. He has been teaching in the Archdiocesan school system for nearly 26 years. He has worked at such schools as: Providence St. Mel’s, St. Thomas Aquinas, Resurrection, St. Martin Deporres, The academy of St. Benedict the African and now here at Epiphany School. He has enjoyed all of his experience and loves working with young people.

Physical Education Curriculum

1. Physical Education prepares the individual to be able to engage in a variety of lifetime skills and activities.  This will also help the individual try and maintain a certain amount of physical fitness throughout their lives.

2. Physical Education helps the individual to begin to understand how their body moves.

3. Physical education is important in a healthy lifestyle; it helps us to maintain some degree of physical fitness.

4. Rules, strategies and a safe environment are some of the most important elements of teaching physical education.

5. Physical Education helps to teach social behavior and the appropriate sportsmanship.  These are qualities one needs to also succeed in life.