Alexandra Lemm

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The other night, I was eating dinner with my husband when we got onto the topic of certain teaching misconceptions. Teaching can sometimes feel like a war of attrition. We are asked to teach an insane academic skill set to students whose primary language is not English. I have been told, “it’s not that hard.”

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Drowning in the Shallow

JANUARY 29, 2022

Children and young people will not automatically improve their movement, health, academic success or their pro-social behaviours just by participating in the subject. To ensure … Continue reading 20 mistakes I’ve made in my 20 years of teaching PE.

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Alexandra Lemm

JUNE 30, 2021

Along with that, time is usually of the essence while attempting to create and teach engaging lessons before the dreaded state test. When thinking of the teaching profession, it is easy to forget the tasks that are on the other side of the classroom door. This is the harsh reality of pandemic teaching.

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Gopher Sport

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In the world of international education, there are those who simply teach, and then there are educators like Allison Deakin, Head of Department for Elementary PE and Swimming, JV & Varsity Badminton Coach, and former Activities Coordinator at GEMS Dubai American Academy (DAA).

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SHAPE America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Students who have the opportunity for regularly scheduled physical activity and more classroom movement benefit academically, physically, and socially. Teach students how to learn and to love learning. Students who are happily engrossed in their learning process are less likely to misbehave or lack effort.

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SHAPE America

MAY 31, 2022

negotiating facilities use agreements, requesting funds from higher administration for women’s athletics, negotiating with faculty about academic vs. coaching duties). As department head, I prepared a time management survey and found that coaches spent much more time coaching than teaching and performing the academic-related tasks (e.g.,

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Gopher Sport

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Establishing Shared Mission and Values We focus on establishing a shared school mission, values, and behaviors geared toward both academic and social-emotional success for every student. A positive school culture creates an environment where students feel safe, respected, and encouraged to take risks in their learning.

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Reinventing the Game

JUNE 15, 2021

These pair of words may sound simplistic and maybe even having negative literal connotations at first, especially if you have never encountered it with relation to learning and probably off-putting to someone who wants to teach better and got no appetite for seemingly obscure concepts. The concept of non-linear development comes in.

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Open Phys Ed

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Promote health-enhancing physical activity : Daily movement and activity are woven into the fun, with exciting physical challenges that keep students energized.

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Reinventing the Game

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This is not easy to talk about on as they are those in the fraternity who take this very seriously and equates it to effective teaching, especially the more experienced teachers. Without doubt, such teaching approaches have resulted in successful learning and performances before but how confident are we on the efficiency of it?

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Mark’s journey in education brought him to Arizona in 1982 where he began teaching adapted physical education at the Arizona Schools for the Deaf and the Blind. Mark started teaching in the College of Education at the University of Arizona in 2008 in the Physical Education Teacher Preparation program.

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Reinventing the Game

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

This is especially so when compared to the academic subjects where results of test and exams are very popular indicators of success. The understanding of philosophy and its role to teaching is part of any teacher training but how effective is its attempt to connect to everyday teaching practises and its long term application?

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Learning Through Sport

MARCH 23, 2025

In Year 12, a new principal decided to stop this program so more time could go ito academics. While recreation sport in curriculum time didn't feature in any of the schools I worked in, when I started my teaching career in the late 1980s, in many jurisdictions school sport was still in curriculum time. Keane, F., & McTeer, W., &

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Aspire-Ed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Here we break down that impact and take a closer look at why gymnastics is an essential sport to teach in primary school. Teaching gymnastics develops key physical skills. Which leads us on to our next point… Teaching gymnastics is in line with the national curriculum. Gymnasts exercise body and mind.

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Physical Education Ideas

MAY 2, 2023

In this blog post, we will explore the reasons why teaching Health and Physical Education is crucial and how literacy is the foundational skill upon which all knowledge is built. Curriculums around the world clearly recognise the importance of teaching literacy in Health and Physical Education. character development 2.

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SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

A principal has low academic scores so he wants to cut recess. An administrator whose students were part of a breakout demo group for their teacher of the year presenter said, “Watching our students teach other school officials about brain breaks and acting as demonstrators for the WHPE presenters was exciting. Is this a good idea?

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Reinventing the Game

AUGUST 11, 2024

My personal dive (too shallow) into skill acquisition sciences is unsuccessfully not seeing the relationship/interaction aspect of classroom teaching environment, at least not so directly. For me, this relationship factor is a key driver of the teaching-learning environment that seemingly can make or break the context best-fit lesson.

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Relentless School Nurse

APRIL 26, 2023

I know that Kathy will continue her leadership and advocacy, focusing on teaching in the Rutgers-Camden School Nurse Specialty Program and volunteering at the state level as an NJSSNA board member. Evidence demonstrates the link between health and academic success and school nurses are an investment in student achievement.

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The Everlearner

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Those of you who know me will know that I specialise in academic PE teaching. My career experience has spanned 22 years of PE teaching and 10 of those years were as a Head of PE in a specialist sixth form college with the biggest A-level PE cohorts that have ever existed.

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SHAPE America

JUNE 6, 2024

Creating a supportive space that enables the team to thrive despite external distractions — whether they be personal struggles, academic pressures, or unforeseen weather challenges — is significant. Leaders in any setting face a myriad of outside influences that can impact team dynamics.

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Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Research shows that the motor skill development associated with consistent participation in physical education/activity can improve academic performance, cognition, visual-perceptual skills, attention, memory, and problem-solving skills ( CDC, 2010 ; de Greeff et al., 2018 ; Fernandes, et al., 2019 ; Kolovelonis & Goudas, 2023 ).

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Active Schools Us

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The definition of physical education varies, but most agree it is an academic subject that provides standards-based curricula and instruction that are part of a well-rounded education. Physical education teaches students essential life skills such as teamwork, communication, and problem-solving. PE and recess are not the same!

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Reinventing the Game

OCTOBER 9, 2021

These are words that practitioners may not have the effort and time bandwidth to differentiate or understand their academic vs literal use. May leverage on a specific context, e.g. the teaching of concepts in an invasion game, to deliver pedagogy ideas better. Pedagogy, framework, strategies, theories, underpinnings, models, etc.

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Open Phys Ed

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Teachers have told us that no matter what grade level they teach, they love looking through all three modules for quick and fun activities that reenforce fitness concepts while also providing health-enhancing physical activity that can build student fitness.

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

MARCH 18, 2023

He is also the coauthor of the Corwin Bestseller The Kinesthetic Classroom: Teaching and Learning through Movement, a book and philosophy that has changed the view of teaching and learning around the world. The Kinesthetic Classroom 2.0 Corwin) was released in the summer of 2017.

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Alexandra Lemm

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

At our last district professional development, I had the honor of presenting one of my very favorite teaching topics, stations with intervention ! In the teaching world, we define intervention as a teacher working independently with a small group (or one student) while assessing and helping specific students’ needs.

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Stanford Childrens

MARCH 3, 2025

Regardless, teach kids to keep the volume level at no higher than half. often -has academic difficulties that cant be attributed to other causes -complains of ringing, buzzing, or other noises in their ears You can also contact your childs school and ask to be connected to an educational audiologist.

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Reinventing the Game

OCTOBER 23, 2020

This is usually the point where a whole year’s of effort culminates and everyone sort of wind down from an intense academic calendar. A part of the teacher tension in approaching is exactly that, i.e. the tension created by teachers for themselves in wanting to ‘teach’ in PE and not just present experiences. I see value in both views.

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Reinventing the Game

DECEMBER 4, 2020

As we head towards the end of the academic year from where I am from, we have an awkward two weeks period where PE resumes before school closes for the holiday. It is a lot to think about in wanting to teach in schools but not surprising when at times we are also expected to take care of the affective.

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PE Scholar

AUGUST 20, 2024

Introduction to physical literacy A seminal paper written by UK academic, Margaret Whitehead, in 2001 spearheaded the concept of physical literacy.

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Open Phys Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

Personal enjoyment, social engagement, and having an appreciation for all movement forms will teach and reinforce skills and concepts while keeping the magic of movement alive. Academic Language Cards: [PDF, WORD]. Academic Language Quiz: [PDF, WORD]. Module Documents. Complete Module Packet: [PDF, WORD]. Ride Out: [PDF, WORD].

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

In fact, banning phones opens the door for more purposeful and innovative uses of technology to enhance student learning and academic performance. Teaching students to use technology as a tool is essential in preparing them for success in today’s digital world.

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Active Schools Us

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Be patient with parents who call you the “gym teacher” – reinforce the term physical education and teach them the difference over time. Be patient with colleagues who treat you as their prep rather than as an academically focused peer. Like all relationships, your physical education support system will take time.

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Alexandra Lemm

JULY 12, 2020

It isn’t news that there is a certain type of personality associated with teaching. We were thrown into virtual learning with no end in sight, we adapted and spent hours teaching each other, guiding each other and consistently worrying about the students that never showed up through the screen.

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Montessori Physical Education

AUGUST 27, 2023

experiences that are connected to or mirror the academic curriculum.” ” — Glossary of Education Reform This means that while we have our own classroom, we should not act as an independent entity from the academic classroom. However, a co-curricular complements and connects to the academic curriculum.

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Reinventing the Game

MAY 1, 2021

I have been lamenting on this for our practise for some time, i.e. how we introduce movement evaluation cues directly as teaching cues to our learners. This is an extremely popular way of teaching for many. This brings to the forefront for me the role of cognition and its influence on how we teach.

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Open Phys Ed

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

The activities in this module are designed to teach students how to move safely around a track (running loop) while exploring different locomotor movements and having imaginative fun with their classmates. Concepts introduced include physical activity in and out of school, basic nutrition education, safety and locomotor movements.

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