Elementary School Recreation Teaching 
SHAPE America
MARCH 14, 2023
We teach at the Ancona School, a small, progressive elementary school in the Hyde Park area of Chicago’s South Side. Each year, our school’s Gone Fishin’ trip combines physical education with outdoor recreation. What the Adults Learn Find adventurous colleagues, regardless of what they teach.
Arizona Health and Physical Education
JANUARY 11, 2023
Most Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) programs only require this one course and we all know this one course cannot fully prepare one to teach or accommodate students with unique needs in your classes. So what does ‘qualified’ mean in terms of teaching adapted physical education? Now what do I mean by settings?
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Better Coaching
DECEMBER 24, 2024
A well-designed sports program has the capacity to teach teamwork, sportsmanship, grit, leadership, and many other life skills, as well as a lifelong love for their game. This underscores the futility of making high-stakes decisions about a childs athletic future in elementary school.
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. Let’s dive in!
Whole Child Sports
MARCH 26, 2020
Which is not, in any way, shape or form, to suggest or insinuate that co-ed and boys teams (at the recreational and travel levels) do not sorely need more female coaches too: THEY DO. But the best coaches don’t simply teach and preach. To wit, check out Bound Brook’s killa Coach Jen. Good coaches are critical to athletic success.
Stanford Childrens
MARCH 25, 2024
K-12 hospital school gives kids a chance for normalcy and connections to other kids during long recoveries At most schools, the two students would never have met. One boy was a teenager in high school, the other a child in early elementary school. A teacher and students work on lessons, circa 1960.
Spark PE
JANUARY 14, 2022
Across the globe, efforts to promote social distancing directly affected physical activity of youth by closing schools, which affected physical activity opportunities including physical education, recess, after-school sports and activities, and walking and biking to school. SPARK has the “Active Classroom” program.
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