To receive an endorsement to teach Physical Education, a person must:

1. Hold a Bachelor’s degree; and

1. Have completed an approved program of preparation for teaching physical education in kindergarten through grade 12; or

2. Forty-two semester credits which must include course work in each of the following:

1. Anatomical kinesiology or mechanical kinesiology, or both;

2. The physiology of exercise;

3. Testing and measuring the skill and ability of a pupil in physical education;

4. The psychological or social aspects of physical education, or both;

5. Motor learning or motor development;

6. Adapted physical education;

7. Movement activities for pupils in preschool and primary grades;

8. Movement activities for pupils in intermediate grades;

9. Advanced first aid or an equivalent course of study;

10. Methods and techniques of teaching in each of the following areas:

1. Physical fitness;

2. Team sports;

3. Rhythms and dance or rhythmic activities for pupils in elementary school; and

4. Individual sports;and

3. Twenty-two semester credits in professional education to include:

1. Foundations of education;

2. Methods of teaching physical education in elementary and secondary grades; and

3. Eight semester credits of student teaching in a composite program which must be split between elementary and secondary grade levels. All 8 credits of student teaching could be completed at the middle school or junior high school level (6-8) and meet the K-12 requirement.

NOTE: If your student teaching was at the elementary level only or at the secondary grade level only, you will not qualify for the K-12 PE endorsement; however, you might qualify for the K-8 PE endorsement.