The Physical Education Framework is based on the premise that the quality and productivity of each individual's life can be enhanced through participation in a comprehensive, sequential physical education system that promotes physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being.
Education implies a focus on the whole person as opposed to a narrow range of skills or abilities.
It means teaching children how to apply new knowledge and to become lifelong learners. The concept of lifelong learning is as relevant to physical education as it is to other areas. A physically educated person is one who has mastered the necessary movment skills to participate confidently in many different forms of physical activity, values physical fitness, and understands that both are intimately related to health and well-being. This framework is based on a set of major premises that permeate every chapter and should be clearly understood by everyone planning or developing a physical education program for children in kindergarten through grade twelve. It is not separate and distinct from the core curriculum.