Lynn used to have her students develop bulletin boards that promoted and advocated for a school's Physical Education program. There's a need, says Lynn, for future P.E. teachers to understand the role of advocacy in their work--knowing how to promote the P.E. curriculum so the school and community can appreciate it and it isn't marginalized.
Instead of bulletin boards, students now use what Lynn thinks is a much more powerful, and personal, tool for advocacy--web sites. She assigns students in her elementary and secondary physical education methods courses the task of creating a web page, to be included in a fictional school's site, about the P.E. program.
