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Earth Day Freeze Dance!

Elementary P.E. Games

Overview. Earth Day freeze dance has arrived, and it’s the perfect brain break and movement game to gets your kids active! What better way to celebrate earth day then with a fun freeze dance game! Find the full video and the directions for how to play down below If you’re looking for more Just Dance / Freeze Dance games for kids, then also be sure to check out my entire Yoga Freeze Dance series along with some of my recent games – Rabbits On The Run , Encanto Guess The Charac

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Performance and Learning in PE

Drowning in the Shallow

The recent Ofsted research review in PE highlights that most children in PE lessons are novices and therefore need to be supported by explicit teaching strategies. Specifically high quality demonstration, instruction, feedback and practice will benefit the acquisition of important declarative and procedural knowledge.

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Sportsmanship is SEL (Part 3)

Montessori Physical Education

In Sportsmanship is SEL Part 2 , we utilized a simple question that can unlock tremendous SEL potential, “ What was the intended outcome?” While this can be useful in lower elementary with more mature students, it really comes into its own in upper elementary. From the last blog: “This question gets to the source of the conflict in a way that does not make anyone good or bad.

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A Fun Bowling Lesson or Tournament for PE Class

The PE Specialist

With this post I wanted to share a fun activity that I normally do with my students on a random week in the year between 2 units of instruction or right before a break. We have a Cosmic Bowling Tournament and the more “Extra” you can go with dimming the lights, bubble machines and black […].

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Reimagine the Role of PE to Reconnect With Your Students

Speaker: Jeremy Kellem, M.Ed. - Educational Strategist, Former Athlete, and CEO/Founder of W.I.N. (We Impact Now, LLC)

For many students, physical education is critical to becoming active and developing healthy routines. But how is this possible anymore with the repercussions of the pandemic? Years of COVID-19, social distancing, and virtual learning have all had a profound effect on students, which means educators need to adjust their classes accordingly. The good news is that P.E. can still play a vital role in helping students intellectually, emotionally, physically, and socially.

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Promoting Lifetime Activities in Secondary Schools

Gopher Sport

This month the PE Huddle will focus on “Promoting Lifetime Activities in Secondary Schools.” For the past 40 years, physical education professionals have talked about the importance of graduating students who will be physically active throughout their lifespan. We will discuss and analyze why this important goal has not taken hold in many of America’s schools.

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S3 Ep4 – The Primary PE Huddle: “My PE teachers were my heroes”

Aspire-Ed

This week on the podcast we welcome United Learning’s Head of Sport Shaun Dowling. Who is Shaun Dowling? Shaun is Head of Sport at United Learning , a national group of primary, secondary and all-through schools across the state and independent sectors. As Head of Sport, Shaun supports Heads of PE and Directors of Sport in further improving the quality of their PE curriculum, school sport programmes and physical activity provision; Shaun ensures they’re using the power of sport to as

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How I Teach Spikeball in PE Class

The PE Specialist

So you want to teach some Spikeball in your PE Classes? I know how you feel, I’ve been teaching spikeball to my students for the past few years and it’s been a big hit. Why Spikeball? As soon as I played the game for the first time, I was hooked on how fun it was […].

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8 Ways to Avoid Fights With Your Children

RC Families

No matter how much you want to avoid fights with your children–or conflicts, or heated disagreements, or whatever you want to call them–even the most controlled parent can find themselves doing just that, because kids are masters at pushing your buttons. When you feel the anger rising within you, remember that the best way to. Read More.

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Gameday Tactics

Player Development Project

It can be easy to overcomplicate things when it comes to gameday tactics. But, as coaches, we should remember that our priority is not winning matches, but supporting the development of our players — and that our use of tactics can play an important role in this process. In this article, we discuss some of the key considerations when creating tactical plans, and how we can coach tactics within the context of youth football.

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How Physical Education Plays a Core Role in Student Development

Speaker: Shane Pill PhD, MEd, BEd, LMACHPER, FACHPER - Physical Education and Sports Researcher, Professor, Consultant, and Speaker

Physical education is an important part of the development of the whole person: physically, socially, emotionally, and cognitively. By providing education in movement competency, education on using movement to develop the ability to be self-regulated and motivated, and education through movement to develop ‘habits of mind’ for positive and constructive engagement with others, PE provides a basis for personal and community health and wellbeing.

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5 Ways to Support Social Emotional Learning with Your Family

PE for Parents

The post 5 Ways to Support Social Emotional Learning with Your Family appeared first on Action for Healthy Kids.

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2022 School Health Profiles Support

Shape PA

Hello Health, Safety and Physical Education Community! I am currently in the process of completing the 2022 School Health Profiles Survey. CDC has selected multiple schools to participate in the National Survey. The information collected for this survey will help us identify needs around school policies, procedures, curriculum, and professional development offerings.

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Cross country fun!

Delamere Academy

Lots of SATs revision this week for year 6 as they take part in a mock SATs week

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April 2022: Investing ESSER Funds

Rennie Center

April 2022: Investing ESSER Funds. catherine-rauseo. Wed, 04/20/2022 - 09:20. Tue, 04/19/2022 - 12:00. Read More. News Type. Newsletter.

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The Benefits of Student-Led Activities

Skillastics

It may come as a surprise to learn that leadership doesn’t begin at the high school level. In fact, educators are creating opportunities for young leaders at the primary age as children are introduced to leadership concepts long before kindergarten. Penn State’s Pre-K early learning social-emotional standards include: “Know and state independent thoughts and feelings” (25.1.1 Self Awareness) and “Participate in new experiences with confidence and independence” (25.1.3 Competence).