Jose Valencia

Physical Education/Health K-4

Hello, my name is Jose Valencia, and I am your child’s K-4 PE and Health teacher this year. Movement and health are the foundations of lifelong learning. My mission is to create a safe, high-energy, and inclusive environment where every student from Kindergarten through 4th grade discovers the joy of being active, building healthy habits, and practicing teamwork. During PE, we work on foundational motor skills, coordination, and cooperative play. While health is focused on teaching wellness, mindfulness, and healthy choices early in life.

In addition, I am also Bateman's Girls Volleyball coach, for which I love leading our student-athletes to build skills, confidence, and sportsmanship on and off the court. My hands and heart are also full raising three kids that also keep me active at home but remind me daily of the unique potential in every child. When I am not teaching or coaching on the court, you can usually find me out on the golf course working on my swing as it is my absolute favorite hobby.

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Classroom Info 

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In my classroom, my goal is to help students maintain and live a healthy lifestyle, which is exactly what Physical Education means to me. A healthy lifestyle involves not just being physically active, but also eating healthy, building relationships with classmates, and accomplishing goals. In order to make sure my students are understanding of what a healthy lifestyle is, I incorporate 3 domains. Psychomotor domain which helps students build their skills, Cognitive domain, helps students understand the purpose of those skills and why we perform them, and finally the Affective domain which helps with building relationships when working in a group, also showing how supportive, respectful, and helpful students are with their classmates. Whether the students are learning how to properly throw a ball, or understanding why our heart beats so fast after running, or even cheering on a classmate when they perform a skill correctly, everything we do in our class has a purpose.
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