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Howard PE teacher: jump roping and active play build fitness and resilience
Summary
Jaylene Follin, Howard physical education teacher, described using jump roping, active play and skill-focused lessons to build students' cardiovascular fitness, perseverance and emotional regulation; she said classes often include about 40 students at a time.
Jaylene Follin, the Howard physical education teacher, said she uses jump roping and other "active play" activities to build students' fitness and resilience.
Follin told meeting attendees that she frames basic movements as "skills" rather than exercise and emphasizes trying, failing and persistence as part of learning. "We're supposed to fail. That's how we learn," she said.
Follin said the class focuses on small motor and movement skills—jogging, skipping and jump roping—and sets expectations that young learners will try even when nervous. "One thing I do love about them ... the majority of them are fearless," she said. She also described teaching students to control their bodies and to practice slow-motion movements as part of skill development.
She linked movement practice to character development, saying perseverance and working through frustration are as important as physical gains. "The successes and the failures that are about to happen, that is what gets me excited," Follin said, adding that she works with roughly 40 children at a time.
The remarks focused on classroom practice and student development; no formal district action or policy change was proposed during the remarks.
