Gopher Sport

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

I have written articles on teaching bowling, conducted webinars on best practices, and presented in-person workshops at major conferences. I have had the privilege of leading workshops at the **NYSAHPERD Conference**, where I guided PE teachers in implementing bowling units effectively.

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SHAPE America

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Now in her third year of teaching, Kelsey has worked as a high school physical education teacher, track and cross-country coach, and science teacher.

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Gopher Sport

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

SuperSafe Floor Hockey: A Unique and Safe Way to Teach Hockey in PE DOM Sports Hockey season is here! When it comes to introducing young players to the game of hockey, safety and performance are top priorities for teachers and coaches. Finding the right equipment can make all the difference.

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Cara has served and supported SHAPE America and SHAPE Maryland through service, training, Twitter chats (@CaraGrant11), coaching, mentoring, as a contributing author, and as a member of the SHAPE America EDI Podcast team. Nilo was a preK-8 PE teacher and coach before going to higher education. She has an Ed.D. He has a Ph.D.

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Reinventing the Game

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Precision in Physical Education (PE) – What is its role? There was a time where the age group I deal with are supposed to be ready for their enlistment in the uniform-groups via their fitness lessons in schools ) To a large extent, precision also plays a big part of how the fraternity exhibits in delivering PE.

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SHAPE America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Elementary students get the majority of their movement during the school day in physical education (PE) and recess. It is estimated that kids get about 5,000-6,000 steps during school on non-PE days and 7,000-8,000 steps on PE days. All three of these tenants of PE can be better utilized in classroom settings.

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SHAPE America

MAY 23, 2023

As an elementary physical education teacher in the Bronx, NY, I’m always looking for ways to stretch my PE budget and introduce my students to new physical activities. Steven was a joy to teach with and so very knowledgeable. We have the bikes at my school for as long as we use them and teach the nutrition curriculum.

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Physical Education Update

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Then stay after hours to coach or supervise extracurriculars. Dick Moss, Editor, PE Update.com. To subscribe to the free PE Tips of the Week Newsletter, Click Here! To check out the PE Update.com website, Click Here! tags]teaching,holidays,teachers [/tags]. Welcome to Scotland.” Where can I get THAT job?

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The Everlearner

OCTOBER 30, 2024

This post is written for PE teachers or those teaching or coaching young people in an educational setting.

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The PE Hub

APRIL 18, 2024

Breaking Boundaries: Teaching Cricket in Primary Schools As summer fast approaches (hopefully bringing the sunny weather with it), so do the ‘summer sports’ in PE. Each of these activities comes with different challenges when teaching in primary schools. However, this does not have to be the case.

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Active Schools Us

MARCH 24, 2021

As a basketball fanatic and coach, I challenge all sports fans and caring community members to take a quick break from March Madness to advocate for one often overlooked part of our education system that is critical to the development of the student athletes who are wowing us during this year’s tournament: physical education.

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Gopher Sport

JANUARY 15, 2025

How Boardball Bumps Up The Fun, Fitness, and Teamwork in PE Classes BOARDBALL Boardball replaces the volleyball net with a portable board, reducing the barriers to play and setup while keeping the core bump-set-spike fundamentals of the game intact. Testimonials From our Educators, Coaches, and Olympians! And so much more!

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SHAPE America

MAY 31, 2022

I was charged with combining the men’s and women’s departments, supervising the planning and construction of a building, overseeing the revision of the curriculum for physical education (PE) majors and the required PE program, developing research and instructional laboratories, and instituting faculty research programs.

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Gopher Sport

AUGUST 16, 2023

In Volleyball, one of the hardest skills to teach is setting, especially with younger students! Above you’ll find a short video on how I approach teaching this important skill to my students. This teaches the importance of mobility during the game. Moving While Setting: Encourage movement while setting.

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Reinventing the Game

APRIL 14, 2022

It is a combination of work stress, doubts about alignment of what I want with what it should it be like to be a Physical Education (PE) teacher, fatigue, etc. came after a discussion with a fellow teacher in the all-consuming discussion of what PE is and what it should look like. Are our teaching models, strategies, approaches, etc.

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Town/neighborhood: I have lived in San Tan Valley for over 12 years, but I teach at Faith Mather Sossaman in the Queen Creek Unified School District. What I do: I’m one of the physical education teachers at Faith Mather Sossaman Elementary School, currently in my 18th year teaching in Arizona.

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SHAPE America

JUNE 8, 2022

Our coach would run drills and teach us the rules, and we would play friendly games among ourselves. I started coaching girls athletics in the late 1980s. One other difference that I noticed at the time was that basketball rules were different for boys and girls. The girls team had six players instead of five. More Battles.

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Gopher Sport

AUGUST 12, 2022

Kick off the school year by tuning in to the August PE Huddle with a focus on “ A New School Year: A Game Plan for a Successful Start”. The start of the school year has a large impact on how you feel about your classes and teaching in general throughout the school year. He received his M.S. Molten Chair in Athletics in 2013 – present.

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Learning Through Sport

JULY 13, 2021

There are many versions of game-based approache s to sport teaching and coaching. However, it is more accurate to think of a GBA as a range of teaching styles or a “toolkit” of styles. We show a GBA can be many teaching styles to players, which invokes the metaphor of the GBA as a pedagogical toolkit.

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Reinventing the Game

MARCH 13, 2021

I can sort of make out who the coach, the physical trainer, the assistants, etc. Picking out any one activity, I try to consider if I will use it for my own students during Physical Education (PE) and the conclusion was probably not exactly but modified to meet an objective that probably wasn’t the original intention of the football team’s.

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MSU

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

She is 7 years old and attends the same K-12 school that I teach at. I am a 6-12th PE and Health teacher for the last three years at Baraga Area Schools. I enjoy working out, coaching basketball (junior high and Michigan Tech University) and playing golf in my spare time.

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Gopher Sport

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Christmas light fight #physed #middleschool #warmupactivity pic.twitter.com/qWfFdd7SOE — Coach Byrd (@2005Supra) December 1, 2022 3. Holiday Shapes (Holiday version of Shipwreck) Activity Idea by Shannon Irwin , shared on PE Universe Get ready for a festive warm-up! View a video demonstration on PE Universe!

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The Everlearner

JULY 6, 2022

The biggest influences in my PE teaching career are the risks that I have taken. I have worked in six PE departments over 20 years, working alongside in the region of 100 PE teachers in total across that time period, as well as working indirectly with thousands of PE teachers now.

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Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 2, 2023

It has long been argued that teaching and coaching must be based on sound, rigorous research and systematic evidence of what works, how and why it works, where it works and for whom it works (Slavin, 2002). A teacher or coach must ensure the learner is engaged in the learning process (Mosston, 1966). Curran et al.,

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The PE Hub

APRIL 18, 2024

Breaking Boundaries: Teaching Cricket in Primary Schools As summer fast approaches (hopefully bringing the sunny weather with it), so do the ‘summer sports’ in PE. Each of these activities comes with different challenges when teaching in primary schools. However, this does not have to be the case.

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Learning Through Sport

JULY 11, 2023

This study showed that personalised teaching with a focus on mastery learning leads to two standard deviation improvement in student learning outcomes as it enabled teachers to give more attention to student ‘higher mental processes’ – problem-solving, application of principles, analytical skills, and creativity. AI makes it possible.

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Gopher Sport

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Specifically, I aspired to become a physical education teacher and coach. Upon completing university and securing a permanent teaching position, I immediately connected with students and quickly realized the profound impact of physical activity in their lives.

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Learning Through Sport

OCTOBER 10, 2021

There is limited evidence of sport teaching in physical education transferring to physical activity participation 'beyond the school gate' in any numerical sense of significance. Teaching for understanding argument. The shortfalls of this curriculum model for secondary school PE are well documented. Utility argument.

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Learning Through Sport

MARCH 23, 2025

I reckon that the research shows this is how the coach and others 'construct' and input into the sport environment rather than being inherent to sport itself. School sport participation can be a conversation conundrum. I know many people don't have positive experiences with sport.

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Learning Through Sport

JUNE 4, 2022

The rationale for this spend is improvement in student outcomes (teacher PD) and player outcomes (coach PD). This morning, I was reading a research paper investigating coach use of a 'contemporary' non-linear pedagogy. In a 2014 blog here on writing about 'how we develop our PE programs?'

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Learning Through Sport

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Small sided games (SSGs) have been part of the coaching lexicon for decades. Wade, 1967; Worthington, 1974) where they were used to teach attack, defence and transition principles of play. The aim of the review is to determine what can be generalised for all coaches and physical education teachers from this body of literature.

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Learning Through Sport

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Small sided games (SSGs) have been part of the coaching lexicon for decades. Wade, 1967; Worthington, 1974) where they were used to teach attack, defence and transition principles of play. My colleague, Deb Agnew, and I did a scoping review of the SSG literature from 2006-2016.

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The PE Hub

APRIL 3, 2024

But why is it that golf doesn’t seem to be on the PE radar? Of course, practically, it can be a challenge to teach. And let’s be honest, traditionally, golf has been seen as an elitist sport, leaving it seemingly unreachable for everyday people meaning it is left out of the PE curriculum. What is Tri-Golf?

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Aspire-Ed

AUGUST 3, 2023

Are you a sports coach looking to create a supportive environment for every pupil? The new Behaviour Management course from Aspire:ED is here to help you empower your coaching techniques and positively impact your pupils' lives. To help you navigate these challenges, we've compiled some top tips for behaviour management.

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Heartzones

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

.” Graduating with a degree in Physical Education, she jumped into a career as a Nevada middle and high school PE teacher (1993-2003), a coach, and a Division 1 basketball official, but she yearned for even more. I also learned that teaching was fun and allowed me to continue to lead a healthy lifestyle.

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Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Activities in physical education often teach children important classroom skills including following instructions, making decisions, problem-solving, teamwork, and self-regulation. Using rhythmic patterns to teach math concepts or language skills not only makes learning more engaging, but it also makes learning more effective.

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