More hours yes, but how can they be implemented without losing the pedagogical approach of Physical Education?

Abstract

Lack of adherence to physical activity, overweight and obesity are some of the most worrying health problems they generate today. The educational administration is considering increasing the timetable of Physical Education to three hours in all Compulsory Education. However, the lack of agreement among Physical Education teachers may jeopardize in the medium term the situation reached by our area in the last 30 years. This article has two objectives: a) to establish a framework for discussion that will serve to generate debate among teachers regarding the possibility of increasing the number of hours in PE; b) to present a proposal, through the implementation of pedagogical models, formative assessment and high-intensity intervallic training, that will make it possible to respond to the educational need to increase the number of hours. The result of the proposal may serve as a guideline for educational administrations to take the long awaited step of proposing the third hour, without forgetting the importance in relation to other benefits that it provides such as the affective-motivational ones, those of social insertion, the cognitive ones or those of interpersonal relations.