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Strategies for Building Support in Physical Education Programs

Learn how to garner support from various sources such as principals, colleagues, parents, school boards, and legislators to enhance your physical education program. Discover effective ways to engage students and the community to promote the value of PE. The key is to showcase the benefits and quality of your program to gain the backing you need.

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Strategies for Building Support in Physical Education Programs

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  1. Chapter 33 Building Support for Your Program

  2. 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.

  3. 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

  4. The Populations Needed to Support Your Program • School administration (principal) • Colleagues in your school • Parents • School board • Community at large • Legislators • Students

  5. 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

  6. 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.)

  7. Ideas for Gaining Support from the Seven Populations (cont) Gaining Support from Parents • Attend PTA (PTO) meetings regularly, even if you’re 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

  8. Ideas for Gaining Support from the Seven Populations (cont) Gaining Support from Parents (cont) • Send “good news” notes about a child’s 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)

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