SHAPE America

APRIL 18, 2023

From these teachers and coaches, students learn just how important physical activity is for physical, mental, and social-emotional health. Be creative and include them in games and movement challenges. Have progressions and regressions of specific movements available within the teaching and coaching mode to facilitate development (e.g.,

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FACTS Management

APRIL 10, 2024

Teaching is a rewarding yet demanding profession. From lesson planning to managing student behavior, stress is something every teacher can expect to encounter at some point in their career. Fresh air and sunlight have been shown to reduce stress levels and improve overall mood, making outdoor breaks a valuable tool for teachers.

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FACTS Management

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Teachers are the heroes of your school. These living, breathing examples of your school’s mission, vision, and values regularly serve fellow teachers, students, parents, and community members. Showing teacher appreciation is an important part of increasing and maintaining morale, but it doesn’t have to be costly.

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Physical Education Ideas

MARCH 27, 2024

As a Physical Education teacher, you have the exciting task of organizing a day filled with laughter, friendly competition, and memories that will last a lifetime. Whether it's "Summer Olympics” or "Water Based," a theme sparks creativity and enthusiasm among students and staff alike. Been there. Choose wisely. What worked well?

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PE Teacher Teacher PE Creativity 98

Gopher Sport

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

By: Gopher Community Physical Education teacher Heather Burd is not just an educator; she’s an example of resilience, compassion, and empowerment. Heather teaches hundreds of students each week, navigating her own physical challenges while showing her students the importance of resilience, self-acceptance, and overcoming adversity.

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PE Teacher Teacher PE Teaching 59

Carly's P.E. Games

JUNE 8, 2019

They are so generous and eager to support teachers in our district! It's fun to be creative while teaching elementary P.E. Please check out my other links: My Teachers Pay Teachers Store: [link] My Webpage: [link] My Youtube Channel: [link] My Pinterest Page: [link] For several years, I have been organizing my P.E.

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Gyms Elementary Creativity Teacher 130

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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Gopher Sport

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Interestingly, the focus of the article wasn’t so much on teachers opposing recess but rather on the requirement itself. In my view, we can find more creative and productive ways to encourage positive student behavior without isolating them while their peers enjoy physical activity.

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Physical Activity Physical Education Creativity Teacher 107

Gopher Sport

JUNE 6, 2023

Throughout my career as a physical education teacher, I have grown a strong appreciation for juggling scarves ! Inexpensive, portable, simple to use, easy to store – scarves should be in every PE teacher’s repertoire, especially towards the end of year when you find yourself teaching somewhere other than your gym!

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Aspire-Ed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Steph Donovan is a dance specialist and has been teaching dance for as long as she can remember. But she’s also a primary school teacher and understands the time pressures that come with planning, researching and resourcing an engaging creative curriculum for your pupils. Steph’s workshop is a chance to change that.

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Dance PE Primary School Creativity 98

Arizona Health and Physical Education

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Salt River Project (SRP) invites Arizona teachers to apply for Classroom Grants of up to $5,000 beginning October 1, 2024. The grants are available for teachers looking to incorporate creative ways to keep their students engaged in STEM and social science projects. DETAILS: Teachers can apply now through February 28, 2025.

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Open Phys Ed

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Each day, students will take part in engaging activities that encourage collaboration, kindness, and creativity, whether in the classroom or during physical education. Activities and lessons bring students together through fun, snowman-inspired challenges that build leadership skills, foster community, and strengthen school spirit.

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Physical Education Physical Activity Academics Creativity 131

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. When using a GBA, the term “guided” does not imply an implicit “game as teacher” learning environment.

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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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Arizona Health and Physical Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The K-sixth physical education teacher at Faith Mather Sossaman Elementary School is devoted to making sure students exercise their bodies along with their brains. Her devotion paid off when she earned an honorable mention at the Arizona Educational Foundation’s 2025 Teacher of the Year Awards in October.

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School Yard

AUGUST 27, 2024

Play-based learning is presented not just as a teaching strategy but as a fundamental approach to actively engaging students in making sense of the world around them. Our expert guests share creative examples of play activities, emphasizing the benefits of peer teaching and inclusion.

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Elementary Education Physical Education Physical Activity Nutrition 105

PE 4 Learning

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Overview Wanna Teach PE is an A-Z guide to PE teaching. From the sports hall to the field, from extra-curricular to examinations, PE teaching is one of the broadest, most challenging, yet most rewarding roles within education, and Wanna Teach PE provides insight into the realisms behind being a PE teacher.

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The Physical Educator

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Dance is a polarizing subject in the world of physical education: some teachers love to teach it, other teachers can’t even imagine themselves teaching it. We teach them to love dancing, as early and often as possible. I understand the importance of support musicality when teaching dance.

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Physical Education Ideas

APRIL 17, 2020

There is so much creativity and wonderful teachers doing wonderful things in the Physical Education space. The teacher in me wanted direction. That is OK, but if you are ever going to get creative, now is the time to do it. As mentioned, I created a Youtube video where I was teaching the fundamental skills of how to run.

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Teaching Teaching Creativity Government 52

The PE Hub

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Rainy Day PE: As a primary school teacher, you may be no stranger to wet weather causing havoc during the school day! However, with some creativity and flexibility, you can still give the children high-quality PE, even with limited space. Rainy days also often affect your lessons, especially when it comes to outdoor activities like PE.

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PLT4M

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As technology becomes more prevalent in the classroom, physical education teachers must create classroom technology rules to ensure students use technology appropriately and safely. As a result, many teachers and schools struggle with the looming technology issues and distractions that occur with students using devices in the classroom.

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Aspire-Ed

OCTOBER 12, 2022

And yet gymnastics is barely covered in initial teacher training. As a result, it’s seen as a difficult and dangerous sport to teach, with teachers left apprehensive about delivering lessons. So how do you move from fearing the sport to making it one of your favourite to teach? What will you learn?

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Physical Education Update

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Perhaps as physical educators, we should provide more encouragement for creative improvisation. Here are some other ideas—some tongue in cheek and some not— that might improve our childrens’ dearth of plaything creativity: Make MacGyver re-runs required television viewing for all school-age children.

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Stanford Childrens

MARCH 25, 2024

At some hospitals, including Packard Children’s, they are part of the Child Life and Creative Arts team, which works in many different ways to help kids feel like kids while they’re hospitalized. Teachers visited bed-bound patients in the McLaughlin Unit, while Stanford Unit patients came to the classroom. “I

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Schooling High School Conditioning Teacher 109

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Skills I choose to focus on in this PE unit are: serves [mainly underhand], passing, setting, and I teach the very basics of hitting. Creative Volleyball Drills to Boost Engagement Having students participate in drills can come with challenges, especially if this sport is not one they care for.

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Teaching Teaching Middle School Creativity 52

Montessori Physical Education

JULY 30, 2023

To help alleviate some of the new school year anxiety and replace it with excitement, I have three free lessons and a video to get your creative juices flowing. Cardiovascular System Kickball is the ultimate game for you if you are teaching human body systems! Finally, here is a fan-favorite lesson that teaches about food webs.

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Schooling Body Systems Cardiovascular Elementary 88

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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Fitness Fitness Academics Assessment 98

Physical Education Ideas

MARCH 1, 2020

Teaching Basketball in PE can be fun, interesting and challenging all at the same time. As a PE teacher, we need to try and cater for both skill sets. There are plenty of fun and creative ideas for activities and games in your basketball unit: Sharks and Minnows. A fun drill which focuses on keeping the head up while dribbling.

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Teaching Teaching Strength PE Teacher 52

Open Phys Ed

JANUARY 15, 2024

Combines movement concepts (direction, levels, force, time) with skills as directed by the teacher (3); Applies the movement concepts of speed, endurance and pacing for running (4a). Register for FREE today to access all of the modules. Outcome [E3.3-5c]. Analyzes movement situations and applies movement concepts (e.g.,

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Motor Skills Movement Physical Activity Dance 98

PLT4M

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

While Christi has retired from teaching after over 30 years in the field, she is still sharing insights and ideas for PE programs across the country. And if there aren’t options within the school district, many teachers are encouraged to look for grant funds. Check out her actionable steps to funding physical education programs.

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Physical Education Education Education Assessment 110

Learning Through Sport

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

I mapped out the model I call Play with Purpose for developing player game sense as people were telling me that the model I was discussing filled a missing 'piece' of information for them about the Game Sense approach- when, why or how to use 'other' teaching styles in a game based approach (GBA). It depends on the task outcome requirements.

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Learning Through Sport

JUNE 13, 2021

Engaging in this contested space, I did my doctoral study on curriculum and pedagogical innovation for sport teaching, which I termed sport literacy as I theorised sport teaching in PE using multi-literacy theory (Drummond & Pill, 2011; Pill, 2009, 2010). Sport is an applied, practised and situated set of skills; 2.Sport

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Learning Through Sport

JUNE 30, 2021

Developments in curriculum frameworks around the world have formalised a rationale for critical thinking, problem solving and creativity in PE as elements in both curriculum design and in the wording of student achievement standards. Critical thinking can be learned.

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Montessori Physical Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

We teach the concept of sportsmanship to all our students so that they may have the complete Social and Emotional (SEL) toolkit available to them as they grow and mature. Physical education professionals (and some Montessori teachers) may ask, “What are we losing from traditional PE if we utilize an integrative model?”

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PLT4M

JULY 19, 2023

The start of a new school year is an exciting time for students, families, teachers, and school districts. As everyone starts to plan for the upcoming year, this article explores back to school planning for physical education teachers. To start, physical education teachers can define their overarching goal for students.

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

MAY 9, 2023

What’s a teacher on summer break to do?! There are a plethora of great opportunities out there to expand your teaching knowledge with conferences, workshops, and online courses. EPEW is dedicated to providing an outlet to all creative and inspirational teachers who wish to share their craft with anyone willing to grow as an educator.

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Physical Education Elementary Assessment Teacher 77

Montessori Physical Education

OCTOBER 16, 2022

With our middle school volleyball season ending soon, I wanted to strike while the creative iron was hot. So what could I do that is volleyball themed and could teach a cool concept from the classroom? These lessons are perfect for the classroom teacher who has to do it all (including PE) and the PE teacher new to Montessori.

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