A great elective by Camdyn

A great elective by Camdyn - June 2025 Scholarship Essay

An elective that would be a great idea to offer students in high school or even in college would be specific physical activity electives that surpassed the regular physical education requirement. When students take a physical education class it's a fun class and yes, we do get to be physically involved, but it would be much better for students that had an interest in a specific sport or a physical activity to be able to take those electives and learn specific fundamental skills that go along with them. For example, with basketball, you could offer basketball 1 for beginners, basketball 2 for the intermediate student and basketball 3!for the advanced student. In the beginners class, they could offer to teach the basic fundamentals of basketball, i.e. dribbing, passing, and shooting. Then in the intermediate class, obviously a little more in depth study of those skills. And finally in the advanced class, those would be students that already are playing on basketball teams and have some basic skills and some fundamentals down, but refining those skills would be what would happen in an advanceed course.
This could be offered in several sports tennis, karate, gymnastics, squash, etc. many different areas in which students would find interest and instead of having to take just a basic physical education class , they could hone in on their skills and or learn a new sport.