- Manhasset Secondary School
- About the Teacher
Giardino, Mark
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Phone: 516-267-7658
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Degrees and Certifications:
BA in Marketing/Management from Siena College MA in Physical Education from Queens COllege
Mr. Mark Giardino
I graduated from Hauppauge High School in 2000. I love to play and coach sports, I played soccer, basketball and baseball in high school. I attended Siena College where I was a member of the soccer team from 2000-2004. Although I played in very few games during my college soccer career, I think it gave me a different and new perspective on sports. When I graduated from Siena College, I worked in the business field for a year until I started coaching baseball the summer after. At that time I went back to school and got my masters in physical education. While I was in school I worked in the Hauppauge School District as a substitute teacher and teachers assistant. I coached middle school soccer, middle school baseketball, and was the varsity baseball assistant coach at Hauppauge from 2005-2010. I have continued coaching three sports ever since I started at Manhasset in 2010. I currently coach varsity boys soccer, 7th grade basketball, and varsity baseball. In years past I have coached JV girls soccer, JV boys soccer, JV boys basketball, and JV baseball at Manhasset.
As a physical education teacher I believe that we have had some positivie changes to our program that will make physical activity more engaging and rewarding for all students. We have started a fitness class, a project adventure class, and started teaching in a sports education model. The fitness elective is for students who want to work out 2-3 days a week during the school day. The students who seletct the fitness elective are expected to focus on a specific component of fitness during their 30 minute workout. Project adventure is an elective where we focus on team building, problem solving, and climbing on our indoor and outdoor high elements that include a rockwall, vertical playpen and cargo net. In regular physical education, we focus on life time activities that includes badminton, tennis, volleyball, yoga, weight training, ultimate frisby, disc golf, and a yard games unit. I believe it's important to make physical activity a habit, not a chore.