S3 Ep24: Why Covering Health and Fitness in Education is so Hard
Teachers Off Duty
Bored Teachers
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
We dive head first into the world of teaching health and fitness in schools, and let's just say things are about to get awkwardly sweaty. From dodging flying dodgeballs to trying to convince middle schoolers that deodorant is NOT optional, collectively, we have seen it all!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi guys, welcome to Teacher's Off-Duty Podcast. Today we're going to be talking about physical education and wellness. |
| 0:30.0 | Alright guys, thanks for joining us today. We are super excited because we are going to talk about something we haven't really even discussed yet on the show and that is our journey and all of our stories about physical education. |
| 0:54.0 | And today we actually have the perfect guest for this because we are joined by Megan Mattelevich. |
| 1:02.0 | Mattelevich, you're close. Mattelevich, I'm one of these days. I'm going to say it right. I know. I know your name. I just can't say it. |
| 1:08.0 | Matt, most of the students call me Miss Matt, so or Miss M. You could have said that for me. You're my surprise. |
| 1:14.0 | Miss Matt, Miss Mattelevich, I'm Megan. I'm super happy to be here. I've been a health and PE teacher for five years now, just crazy to think about. |
| 1:21.0 | It's awesome. All middle school, 6th, 7th, 8th grade and I love it, surprisingly. |
| 1:26.0 | It sounds like such a fun job. It is. No day is the same. All days are different. It's not your typical routine every day. You just never know. |
| 1:33.0 | Teaching health to middle school has to be a pretty wild experience. |
| 1:36.0 | It is. It is, especially when we get to the family life. |
| 1:40.0 | Oh, so they re-bring it in. |
| 1:42.0 | I love it. Yes, we re-bring it in. So family life. |
| 1:45.0 | I love that they made it for some interesting stories. |
| 1:48.0 | It makes it less awkward to say. |
| 1:51.0 | Yeah. Yeah. Like what class do you have to family life? |
| 1:54.0 | I think family life. I think eventually maybe it's like an individual health or something like that. |
| 1:59.0 | Because what if you're not going to have a family? That's right. |
| 2:01.0 | You were talking about this because this was not my experience when I was in middle school. |
| 2:04.0 | You guys separate kids. We do. |
| 2:06.0 | So it's less confrontational and awkward for the kiddos. |
| 2:09.0 | I think so. I love teaching all the girls. It's more comfortable for everyone in the room. |
| 2:14.0 | The boys can make jokes typically. |
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