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5 Tips for Teaching Physical Education Without a Gym

SHAPE America

Are you losing your gym space for a class period, a day, a week or longer? At some point, most physical education teachers have had to give up the gym for a concert, rehearsal, assembly, construction, or other school/community activity. And, although teaching PE without a gym is not ideal, it is possible.

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Introducing Students to New Lifetime Sports in a Mobile PE Class

SHAPE America

A Different Type of PE Class This is my 13th year of teaching physical education, but I have also taught other subjects along the way, such as health, wellness and weightlifting. Rock climbing at LEF Climbing gym in Lexington, KY. As a PE teacher, you already know the gym gets stolen from you all the time.

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Why teach gymnastics in primary school?

Aspire-Ed

Here we break down that impact and take a closer look at why gymnastics is an essential sport to teach in primary school. Teaching gymnastics develops key physical skills. Flexibility, strength, technique, speed, control, coordination and balance are all developed through gymnastics.

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Universal Design for Learning in Physical Education

Arizona Health and Physical Education

This month’s blog hopes to provide you all with helpful information on how to implement the concept of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) into your current teaching environment. The main way to do this is to create a learning environment where students have what they need to flexibly meet the learning goals. Can everyone sit together?

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Gymnastics Lesson Plans

PLT4M

At PLT4M, we recommend teaching gymnastic skills to the entire class allowing ample students time to practice the movements together. But all beam exercises can also be achieved by using any of the painted lines on the gym floor or by putting down a line of tape. If you have a soft beam or slightly elevated beam that is great.

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A History of Yoga

The Sporting

Yoga is ideal for boosting mental well-being and is a great tool in life with which to find balance, whilst maintaining strength and flexibility. Yoga - amazing for flexibility, take your mat anywhere! Furthermore, during this period, many yogis chose to move to the West to teach curious Westerners a thing or two about yoga.

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Rainy Day PE Lessons: Teaching PE in Wet Weather in a Primary School

The PE Hub

However, with some creativity and flexibility, you can still give the children high-quality PE, even with limited space. A multi-skills teaching bag can also be a great resource, offering a range of tools to keep pupils engaged and ready to go as and when needed.