 Choosing a Curriculum
Many people believe that if you just get children moving, they will automatically learn fundamental movement skills. But research doesn’t support this view of motor skill learning.
Like most other skills, locomotor and object-control skills are learned most efficiently when they are taught most effectively—through demonstration, practice, and targeted feedback.
And being able to perform motor skills competently influences children’s willingness to be active outside of school, not only in the short term but also as they move into adolescence and adulthood.
EPEC combines the true skill learning that prepares students to be physically active for life with moderate-to-vigorous physical activity for immediate health improvement.
Use our Standards-Based Curriculum Checklist to evaluate and compare EPEC to other programs to determine if they are truly standards-based, not merely activity-based.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) also offers an extensive evaluative instrumen for physical education curricula called the Physical Education Curriculum Analysis Tool or PECAT.
For a list of research abstracts, view our Physical Education, Skill Learning, and Physical Activity literature review.
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