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Daily Physical Education as an Academic and Behavioral Intervention

SHAPE America

We even built a mountain bike park on our school grounds for students to enjoy because we recognize how bikes can be used to help our students achieve success. He has been teaching for 17 years and resides in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, where he enjoys coaching and exploring the outdoors with his wife and three sons.

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5 Strategies for Using the National Physical Education Standards … and the Benefits of Being a Standards-Based PE Teacher

SHAPE America

How do you know what to teach in your physical education classes? If you often find yourself wondering or asking in an online community what you should do in PE this week or next week or how to start, then you picked the right article to read. This made it easy for me to reference and teach my students about our learning goals.

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Why Bowling Deserves a Spot in Every PE Curriculum

Gopher Sport

Few sports give you a true, measurable way to achieve perfection, but in bowling, its real. I have written articles on teaching bowling, conducted webinars on best practices, and presented in-person workshops at major conferences. Why Bowling Deserves a Spot in PE Bowling is more than just rolling a ball at pins. A pocket hit.

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Is teaching Physical Education (PE) a tough job? Why I have stopped trying to be a better teacher and revert to wanting to make sense of what I am doing and why.

Reinventing the Game

In a recent sharing by our highest education trained in-charge person in the nation, much of the discussion revolved around taking care of the learners in the best possible way without a focus on wanting them all to be alike in objectives and achievements. Teaching Games for Understanding is a multi-step process.

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Physical Education Electives

PLT4M

When Cole Christopher first started teaching at MACCRAY 7 years ago, the weightlifting elective had only a handful of students. Nicole says that the Lifetime Fitness classes have been a game-changer for students at De Pere, “Many students start the semester unsure, even nervous, of what they can achieve.

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Physical Education (PE) a guilt-trip subject for education systems

Reinventing the Game

I have to find some consensus as I have been a PE teacher for almost three decades and that is bound to mean something. 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. The struggle is real.

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SMART Lesson Planning for PE Teachers

Gopher Sport

This approach increases student engagement and fosters more organized and efficient teaching for you! Clearly define what you want your students to achieve throughout the lesson. I am a big believer in teaching through gameplay! Find games that incorporate your objective and teach it to your students.