ATMOSPHERE OF CLASSROOM: Hello, I am a junior in college and enjoy fitness and being active, especially lifting. As a future Health and PE teacher I was wondering if as a teacher you can be fully engaged with your students? What I mean by this is can you run or workout beside them, or would this remove you from your role as facilitator? Has anyone had success with this, or any advice for me? Please share in the forum.   CROSS-FIT?: The new "in" in fitness is Cross-Fit Training. (http://crossfit.com/)This is high level fitness. Do you believe that bringing this in at the high school level would be a good or bad thing? I think that the students will like it, but I also have a feeling that it might go down hill because of how grueling it can be. Please share in the forum. CREATION OF CURRICULUMS: As an up and coming physical educator, I find myself curious as to the process of how curricula are created. I do not fully understand the process. How big of a part does the district vs the teachers play in creating a curriculum? As a newly hired teacher, do you generally have to wait before you can make any changes that you would like? Are you basically stuck teaching what someone else wants taught? Or does the process and situation literally differ in every case? I really appreciate any responses. Please share in the forum. iTOUCH APPLICATIONS : Our middle school staff is very interested in using iTouch technology in their teaching. They have dabbled in it a bit, but we are looking for more people that have used this in their teaching. Has anyone used this successfully? How have you applied this technology to enable your students to learn? Please share in the forum. CROSSFIT: I have recently tried a new workout routine called crossfit. As a future PE teacher I was wondering if anyone has tried this in their PE classes, and if so how did your students like it? Please share in the forum. START SPENDING MONEY ON GIRLS: When I went to high school our girls volleyball team were really good. However, no matter how many games we won or how far we made it in playoffs our school would not buy anything new for us. We were in dire need of a new net and new uniforms. Instead of the school spending money on us, they would always decide to buy new things for the football team who hadn't won a single game for the past 64 games. I feel that our school didn't want to spend money on a girls team when they could spend it on the boys team. Even though the football had a horrible record the school wanted them to have all of the best equipment. This never made any sense to me and I don't think what they did was right. Does this type of thing only happen at my school or does this happen to girls teams at other schools too? Please share in the forum. WOMEN ATHLETE SCHOLARSHIPS: As a woman and an athlete it was hard for me to find scholarships. I am a pole vaulter and it seemed as if though only the guy pole vaulters on my team got scholarships. Is this how it is at every school? Are there places to look where I can find scholarships for just female athletes? Find out more. DON'T PRACTICE, DON'T TEACH: Ok, we all have heard the saying "Practice what you preach", so why is health and physical education any different? If you cannot pass the various fitness tests, how can you tell your students to run more and do more pull-ups. Being a healthy and active role model should be part of this job, and I feel students look at that more than what you are teaching in class. So, what do you think? Should health and PE teachers have some sort of fitness test to become certified in health and PE? Please share in the forum.