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5 Ways to Celebrate PE & Sport Week in Your School … All Year Long!

SHAPE America

Every May, we celebrate physical educators and coaches — the “champions” who help kids gain the confidence, competence, and motivation to be physically active in school, before and after school, and for the rest of their lives. Implement games into warmups and lessons that foster and complement the development of motor skills.

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Review of Teaching Fundamental Motor Skills, Fourth Edition

Human Kinetics

From Joncie Albright, PGMT , Physical Education Teacher at Locus Grove Primary School in Orange County, Virginia. . Teaching Fundamental Motor Skills, Fourth Edition , is the one must-have book for all new and veteran elementary physical education teachers!

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How to ‘Spring’ Into Physical Activity During National PE & Sport Week

SHAPE America

Going outside to be physically active helps increase a person’s mood, their fine motor skills, social skills, and personal wel-being. He is currently the coordinator of Physical Education and Health Education for Manassas City Public School in Manassas, VA. Follow David on Twitter @ManassasCityHPE.

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Power-Up Rhythm and Timing in Physical Education Activities

Gopher Sport

Due to a variety of factors including less opportunity for physical activity throughout the day, more seated classroom time, and fewer foundational motor experiences (swinging, climbing trees, jumping rope, building forts, and kicking the can in the alley), children’s fundamental motor skills are on the decline ( Brian et al.,

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Health Benefits Of Physical Education In Schools

PLT4M

The health benefits of physical education schools are well documented. After exploring the current state of student health and wellness, we outline and review the short and long-term health benefits of physical education in schools. Only 26% of high school-aged students attend PE classes 5 days a week.

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Coach Rob Seeks Advocates for #PEMovingForward

Active Schools Us

It was one of the best experiences of my life, which I’m trying to prolong by coaching my 10-year-old daughter’s team for the last three years as well. A couple weekends ago, my son’s team had its last game ever since the boys are now moving toward playing on their high school team.

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So what is adapted physical education?

Arizona Health and Physical Education

Over the years I have heard many misconceptions about how a student qualifies for adapted physical education as well as what the actual purpose of adapted physical education is. standard deviation points away from the mean on the Test of Gross Motor Development (TGMD-2). To begin I’d like to clear up one misnomer.