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Prioritizing PE Post-Pandemic: An Interview with a PE Teacher

Active Schools Us

Danielle Branciforti has taught PE for 30 years. Active Schools: How has the pandemic changed PE for you and your students?? . Danielle: It’s been a disaster – trying to do PE remotely is such a disservice to the students, all of whom have some developmental, behavioral, or some physical limitations. One of the best?things?parents

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Why I Embrace a More Inclusive and Empathetic Teaching Style in Physical Education

SHAPE America

My third-grade PE teacher, an African American male, introduced me to literature beyond the PE curriculum, which made an indelible impression on my psyche, self-esteem, and confidence as a recently arrived Afro-Latino student in the United States.

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Daily Physical Education as an Academic and Behavioral Intervention

SHAPE America

Bringing Bikes to Our School About six years ago, I developed a biking curriculum for my PE program. An Extension of PE Along the way, I got to thinking about the intervention class as an extension of standards-based physical education rather than just an opportunity for physical activity. The freedom I feel is my favorite part.”

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Is teaching Physical Education (PE) a tough job? Why I have stopped trying to be a better teacher and revert to wanting to make sense of what I am doing and why.

Reinventing the Game

You can imagine the dilemma when in such an environment, the same expectations overflow into subjects like Physical Education (PE). As much as we have settled handling this mismatch in evaluating subjects like PE and other life-skill related ones, it still creeps up every now and then on the ground in an awkward way.

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Physical Education (PE) a guilt-trip subject for education systems

Reinventing the Game

The Perfect Physical Education (PE) classroom – What does it look like? Is PE a guilt-trip subject for education systems to ensure there is a balance in their existence? It is difficult subject, wanting to enhance, educate, improve life skill movement that is almost unique to everyone through a generalised approach. environment.

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Movement Concept Stations for PE Grades K-5

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School: Ravenwood Elementary Activity: Movement Concepts Stations Skills: Locomotor Movements, Pathways, Levels, Speeds, Balance, Dancing Grade: K-5 Movement Concepts Description This is a stations based activity where students work on different types of body movement. We utilize lots of equipment … Read More.

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Using the City as Your Physical Education Classroom

SHAPE America

To teach my students about these activities, I often go beyond my school’s traditional PE space — and use the city as my physical education classroom. I wanted to create a space my students could connect to “uncommon-to-them” physical fitness activities, such as yoga, boxing, weight training, cycling, and mountain biking.