Personal Fitness

Course Description:

A fitness reward awaits—students experience personal change, both physically and mentally, from the Personal Fitness course journey. The course begins with an assessment of each student’s current physical condition. Workout logs enable students to measure individual progress. Realistic goals, set with the guidance of a training instructor, help students reach their personal fitness goals. Students travel through the virtual town of Wellville and learn about exercise, conditioning, managing stress, diet, and nutrition. A fitness program is developed and tailored to each student’s needs. By following personalized training principles, students feel energy levels increase and gain confidence from personal success. Engagement in exercise and physical activity according to personal plans leads students toward developing healthy habits that will last a lifetime. The best way to live a healthy life is to prevent health problems before they occur—this course helps students do just that. And the best time to start is right now.

Course Details:

Course Title (District):

Personal Fitness

Course Title (NCES SCED) :

Physical Education—Other

Course Provider :

Ann Arbor Public Schools

Content Provided By :

Florida Virtual School

Online Instructor Provided By :

Ann Arbor Public Schools

Standards Addressed :

None

Academic Terms :

Semester, Trimester, Accelerated

NCES SCED Code : 08049

Subject Area :	Physical, Health, and Safety Education
Course Identifier :	Physical Education—Other
Course Level :	High School (Secondary)
Available Credit :	0.5
Sequence :	1 of 1

How To Enroll:

Enrollment Website :	http://a2virtual.org
Email :	[email protected]
Phone :	734-997-1208

Students and Parents: It is important to work closely with your local school counselor or registrar to follow the school's enrollment procedures. By clicking the "Start Registration Request" button below, you will be able to notify the school of your interest in registering for the online course. However, it is the responsibility of the district or school to review the registration request and approve or deny the request. Please make a note to follow up with your school after submitting a registration request.

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Additional Course Information:

Email: [email protected]
Phone: 734-997-1208

Additional Cost: $0.0

Additional Cost Description: None

Course Outcomes / Objectives

Outcomes of the Personal Fitness Course:

Give students the knowledge and desire to establish personal health and fitness programs.
Educate and motivate students to want to stay physically active and make healthy lifestyle choices far beyond their high school years.
Help students realize that regular physical activity will increase their energy level and productivity.
Provide safe, challenging, and enjoyable activities that will allow students to assess and evaluate their lifestyles.
Help students to realize that personal fitness is just that -personal-and that their bodies will not be compared to others in any way.
Help students understand the value of participating in physical activity to promote psychological well-being.
Help students develop positive attitudes about their physical self-images because they will be making improvements in their programs and lifestyles.
Give students the confidence to take control of many aspects of their lives

Course Review

iNACOL National Standards for Quality Online Courses

Content (13)

Academic Content Standards and Assessments	Rating	Comments
The goals and objectives clearly state what the participants will know or be able to do at the end of the course. The goals and objectives are measurable in multiple ways.	Fully Met	Found in Course Information
The course content and assignments are aligned with the state’s content standards, Common Core curriculum, or other accepted content standards set for Advanced Placement® courses, technology, computer science, or other courses whose content is not included in the state standards.	Fully Met	Found in Course Information
The course content and assignments are of sufficient rigor, depth and breadth to teach the standards being addressed.	Fully Met	All State Standards are addressed.
Information literacy and communication skills are incorporated and taught as an integral part of the curriculum.	Fully Met	Essays as well as Dissussion boards are used.
Multiple learning resources and materials to increase student success are available to students before the course begins.	Fully Met	Found in Course Information (Welcome box)

Course Overview and Introduction	Rating	Comments
Clear, complete course overview and syllabus are included in the course.	Fully Met	Found in Course Information
Course requirements are consistent with course goals, are representative of the scope of the course and are clearly stated.	Fully Met	Found in Course Information
Information is provided to students, parents and mentors on how to communicate with the online instructor and course provider.	Fully Met	Found under Instructor Introductrion.

Legal and Acceptable Use Policies	Rating	Comments
The course reflects multi-cultural education, and the content is accurate, current and free of bias or advertising.	Fully Met
Expectations for academic integrity, use of copyrighted materials, plagiarism and netiquette (Internet etiquette) regarding lesson activities, discussions, and e-mail communications are clearly stated.	Fully Met	Found under Course Information and Ann Arbor Public Schools Policies.
Privacy policies are clearly stated.	Fully Met	Found under Ann Arbor Public Schools Policies.

Instructor Resources	Rating	Comments
Online instructor resources and notes are included.	Fully Met	Eteacher Guide
Assessment and assignment answers and explanations are included.	Fully Met	Link to outside resourse for keys, rubrics included in course.

Instructional Design (11)

Instructional and Audience Analysis	Rating	Comments
Course design reflects a clear understanding of all students’ needs and incorporates varied ways to learn and master the curriculum.	Fully Met	Videos, essays, discussion boards, personl activity logs, etc. are used.

Course, Unit and Lesson Design	Rating	Comments
The course is organized by units and lessons that fall into a logical sequence. Each unit and lesson includes an overview describing objectives, activities, assignments, assessments, and resources to provide multiple learning opportunities for students to master the content.	Fully Met	Description of lesson is included, and various methods for mastering content are used including, surveys, essays, quizzes, and discussion boards.

Instructional Strategies and Activities	Rating	Comments
The course instruction includes activities that engage students in active learning.	Fully Met	Survyes, physical activites, discussions.
The course and course instructor provide students with multiple learning paths, based on student needs that engage students in a variety of ways.	Fully Met	Physical activities, essays, surveys, discussions.
The course provides opportunities for students to engage in higher-order thinking, critical reasoning activities and thinking in increasingly complex ways.	Fully Met	Students are required to apply knowledge to a real life situation.
The course provides options for the instructor to adapt learning activities to accommodate students’ needs.	Fully Met
Readability levels, written language assignments and mathematical requirements are appropriate for the course content and grade-level expectations.	Fully Met	Teacher is provided multiple resourses through the Eteacher Guide.

Communication and Interaction	Rating	Comments
The course design provides opportunities for appropriate instructor-student interaction, including opportunities for timely and frequent feedback about student progress.	Fully Met
The course design includes explicit communication/activities (both before and during the first week of the course) that confirms whether students are engaged and are progressing through the course. The instructor will follow program guidelines to address non-responsive students.	Fully Met
The course provides opportunities for appropriate instructor-student and student-student interaction to foster mastery and application of the material.	Fully Met	Instructor feedback for each lesson as well as discussion board activities for student to student interaction.

Resources and Materials	Rating	Comments
Students have access to resources that enrich the course content.	Fully Met	Each lesson provides links to outside resources.

Student Assessment (7)

Evaluation Strategies	Rating	Comments
Student evaluation strategies are consistent with course goals and objectives, are representative of the scope of the course and are clearly stated.	Fully Met
The course structure includes adequate and appropriate methods and procedures to assess students’ mastery of content.	Fully Met	Activities, essays, quizzes, exams, discussion boards are all included.

Feedback	Rating	Comments
Ongoing, varied, and frequent assessments are conducted throughout the course to inform instruction.	Fully Met	See #2 above.
Assessment strategies and tools make the student continuously aware of his/her progress in class and mastery of the content.	Fully Met	Students are immediately aware when they've submitted an assignment, and are immediately aware through their grade book when the teacher has graded an assignment.

Assessment Resources and Materials	Rating	Comments
Assessment materials provide the instructor with the flexibility to assess students in a variety of ways.	Fully Met	See #2 abve.
Grading rubrics are provided to the instructor and may be shared with students.	Fully Met	Rubrics are provided within the lesson, or through instructor.
The grading policy and practices are easy to understand.	Fully Met	Found in Course Information (Syllabus)

Technology (11)

Course Architecture	Rating	Comments
The course architecture permits the online instructor to add content, activities and assessments to extend learning opportunities.	Fully Met	Instructor can add content.
The course accommodates multiple school calendars; e.g., block, 4X4 and traditional schedules.	Fully Met

User Interface	Rating	Comments
Clear and consistent navigation is present throughout the course.	Fully Met
Rich media are provided in multiple formats for ease of use and access in order to address diverse student needs.	Fully Met

Technology Requirements and Interoperability	Rating	Comments
All technology requirements (including hardware, browser, software, etc...) are specified.	Fully Met	Found in Welcom box.
Prerequisite skills in the use of technology are identified.	Fully Met	Students are told what they need to do in order to be successful and where to go if they need help.
The course uses content-specific tools and software appropriately.	Fully Met
The course is designed to meet internationally recognized interoperability standards.	Fully Met
Copyright and licensing status, including permission to share where applicable, is clearly stated and easily found.	Fully Met	Found under Ann Arbor Public Schools Policies (computer use policies)

Accessibility	Rating	Comments
Course materials and activities are designed to provide appropriate access to all students. The course, developed with universal design principles in mind, conforms to the U.S. Section 504 and Section 508 provisions for electronic and information technology as well as the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility guidelines (WCAg 2.0).	Fully Met

Data Security	Rating	Comments
Student information remains confidential, as required by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).	Fully Met

Course Evaluation and Support (10)

Accessing Course Effectiveness	Rating	Comments
The course provider uses multiple ways of assessing course effectiveness.	Fully Met
The course is evaluated using a continuous improvement cycle for effectiveness and the findings used as a basis for improvement.	Fully Met

Course Updates	Rating	Comments
The course is updated periodically to ensure that the content is current.	Fully Met

Certification	Rating	Comments
Course instructors, whether faceto-face or virtual, are certificated and “highly qualified.” The online course teacher possesses a teaching credential from a state-licensing agency and is “highly qualified” as defined under ESEA.	Fully Met

Instructor and Student Support	Rating	Comments
Professional development about the online course delivery system is offered by the provider to assure effective use of the courseware and various instructional media available.	Fully Met
The course provider offers technical support and course management assistance to students, the course instructor, and the school coordinator.	Fully Met
Course instructors, whether face-to-face or virtual, have been provided professional development in the behavioral, social, and when necessary, emotional, aspects of the learning environment.	Fully Met
Course instructors, whether face-to-face or virtual, receive instructor professional development, which includes the support and use of a variety of communication modes to stimulate student engagement online.	Fully Met
The provider assures that course instructors, whether face-to-face or virtual, are provided support, as needed, to ensure their effectiveness and success in meeting the needs of online students.	Fully Met
Students are offered an orientation for taking an online course before starting the coursework.	Fully Met