TExES PE EC-12 258 study guide
TExES PE EC-12 258 · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
Physical Education EC–12 (258) is a Texas educator certification exam delivered through the Texas Educator Certification Examination Program. It is designed for candidates preparing to teach physical education to students from early childhood through grade 12 in Texas public schools, usually while completing an educator preparation program that leads to standard certification in the field. The exam is computer-administered and includes 90 selected-response questions plus 1 constructed-response question. Candidates should plan for 5 hours of total appointment time: 15 minutes for the CAT tutorial and compliance agreement and 4 hours and 45 minutes of testing time. Topics on this exam: Motor Skills and Movement Concepts, Health-Related Fitness and Physical Activity, Physical Education Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment, and Student Development, Learning, and Safety in Physical Education. The TExES PE EC-12 258 study guide has 4 sections and about 1,571 words.
01Motor Skills and Movement Concepts
Nearly every question here starts with sorting a skill into a category. Locomotor skills travel through space: walk, run, jump, hop, skip, gallop, slide, leap. Non-locomotor (axial) skills act around the body's own axis while stationary: bend, twist, turn, push, pull, sway, swing, balance. Manipulative skills handle an object: throw, catch, kick, strike, dribble, volley, trap.
386 words, about 2 min02Health-Related Fitness and Physical Activity
Health-related components: cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, and body composition. Skill-related (performance) components: agility, balance, coordination, power, reaction time, and speed. Candidates miss power constantly - it belongs to the skill-related list even though it grows out of strength. Memorize both sets as fixed lists and check any list question against them.
359 words, about 2 min03Physical Education Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
Know the signature of each. Movement education is concept-based and common in the elementary grades. Sport education uses seasons, persistent teams, individual roles, and a culminating event. Tactical games / Teaching Games for Understanding poses the tactical problem before the skill and groups games as invasion, net/wall, striking/fielding, and target.
400 words, about 2 min04Student Development, Learning, and Safety in Physical Education
Children are not miniature adults. They have a larger skin surface relative to body mass and a lower sweat rate, so they heat up faster and need frequent water and shade breaks. Growth plates are vulnerable, so avoid maximal heavy loading. Attention spans are shorter, so keep tasks brief and change them often.
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