How to go about developing a community within a physical education classroom setting.
             Each physical education classroom setting makes up its own community. A
             community is a group of persons that are supportive of each other, take responsibility for
             their actions, cooperate with, and trust one another. The students within the class help in
             the making of decisions that affect the classroom environment. But how do you go about
             In the beginning of the class year the teacher/instructor needs to get all the
             students together in an open and safe grouping and set the ground rules for how to
             conduct themselves while participating in the class meeting. These boundaries would set
             this meeting apart from any other class time.
             The meetings would need to be consistent over time. The meetings would need to
             be organized and scheduled for certain times throughout the school year. And meetings
             could also be called in the case that there is an important issue that needs to be discussed
             The biggest concern is cooperation. The environment within the meetings must be
             safe, caring, and controlled. Safety would allow the students to hold a sense that any ideas
             or statements made by them during the meetings would not be criticized by the class as a
             whole. It takes a lot for a child to open up and speak about their thoughts and feelings in
             front of their fellow students. A caring environment would aid in the process in making
             the students feel safe. Having all the students pay attention and listen while others speak
             would create a caring atmosphere. Control within the meetings would give structure to
             them. The teacher needs to control the environment by organizing the room, setting rules
             that would only allow one person to talk at a time, and requiring that the students help in
             the decision making process would help create a fair and equal environment between the
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