SHAPE America

APRIL 18, 2023

From these teachers and coaches, students learn just how important physical activity is for physical, mental, and social-emotional health. Include at least three motor skills and one foundational movement skill every Motor Skill Monday (every day is even better!) Be creative and include them in games and movement challenges.

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Schedule a 15-Minute demo to learn how PE teachers are ushering in a new age of Physical Education with Fitness and Technology! More On An Intro To Fitness Philosophy An introduction to all things movement and fitness. Ready to WOW your Admins?

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PE Physical Activity High School Physical Education 116

Open Phys Ed

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Promote health-enhancing physical activity : Daily movement and activity are woven into the fun, with exciting physical challenges that keep students energized.

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Physical Education Physical Activity Academics Creativity 131

SHAPE America

APRIL 20, 2023

Here are some tips to help you get started: For Teachers: Advocate for more outdoor recess and field days. Make new friends through movement. Reach out to your local school’s physical education teacher for more information and opportunities. Take your classes outside! Introduce new games that are easy to learn, but fun to play.

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Physical Activity PE Sports Sports 443

SHAPE America

MAY 23, 2023

As an elementary physical education teacher in the Bronx, NY, I’m always looking for ways to stretch my PE budget and introduce my students to new physical activities. Open, I told some other New York City physical education teachers in a Facebook group. One of the teachers was really excited about the information about the U.S.

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Learning Through Sport

MARCH 1, 2025

Rink (2006) suggested that movement concepts as the content for physical education has the potential to be the subject matter of physical education that enables teaching and learning for the long term curricular goals usually espoused for physical education - the transfer of learning to active and healthy living beyond the school gate.

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SHAPE America

AUGUST 12, 2024

School administrators must figure out ways to support staff members, so they don’t join the growing number of teachers who have decided to leave the profession. We all know that stress in the education field is at an all-time high. This nationwide issue is one that I am super passionate about.

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Active Schools Us

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Unfortunately, students just weren’t signing on (maybe 4 out of 15 students) or were signing on but with parents or grandparents doing something in the room that wasn’t conducive to movement. Danielle : I reach out all the time to families by sending ideas, activities, resources – including how to find movement in everyday activities.?One

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PE Teacher PE Teacher Movement 130

SHAPE America

MARCH 24, 2022

Students around the field are throwing and catching discs, learning movement skills, encouraging one another, and enjoying physical activity in the process. The teacher watches, supervises and offers students feedback, reflecting on the effectiveness of their lesson plan in real time. It was a good throw, just too far.

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Physical Education PE Elementary Movement 221

Reinventing the Game

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

You may still find older teachers and school curriculum still clinging to it. It doesn’t help that evaluation process across subjects prefer clear quantitative data to compare teacher performances. This means that precise movements are needed in push-ups and sit-ups to trigger the automatic count. Or is it not?

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Physical Education PE Education Education 264

Arizona Health and Physical Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The K-sixth physical education teacher at Faith Mather Sossaman Elementary School is devoted to making sure students exercise their bodies along with their brains. Her devotion paid off when she earned an honorable mention at the Arizona Educational Foundation’s 2025 Teacher of the Year Awards in October.

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Education Education Elementary School Physical Education 86

Reinventing the Game

OCTOBER 23, 2020

My intention with the class is to allow some autonomy for the students and connecting it to a learning process where I get students to contemplate what they are doing and connecting it to the bigger picture of why certain movements seem more attractive over others. These two experiences are identifiable for many teachers.

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Physical Education Teacher Education Education 130

S&S

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

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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Movement PE Elementary Dance 94

Open Phys Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This collection of instant activities serves to help teachers get students moving quickly, while also providing meaningful learning tasks with academic integration. The post Pi Day Movement Resources (K-8) appeared first on OPEN Physical Education Curriculum.

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Movement Academics Physical Education Physical Activity 90

The Everlearner

JUNE 26, 2024

Dear PE and Sport teachers, I really enjoy writing posts that cover subject content. In the past, my writings on movement analysis , levers , planes , axes and nutrition have proved really popular.

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Teacher PE Sports Sports 105

Relentless School Nurse

MAY 1, 2023

And on May 24, we’ll mark one year since 19 children and two teachers were killed in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. We will also be able to follow up with you and the people who attend your event to keep you all involved in the gun violence prevention movement. This is the best way to have the biggest impact!

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Schooling Coordination Movement Elementary School 325

Reinventing the Game

MARCH 13, 2021

The next understanding that I wanted was what if the same group of learners pass through different teachers at any one learning phase of their life, e.g. in a term. Of course, one probable answer is that learning mechanisms have the ability to adapt to reach an objective that is desired, in spite of what we do as teachers.

Physical Education 130

Physical Education Teacher Education Education 130

SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

If you are a health and physical education teacher who would like to celebrate Black History Month in your classes, take a look at the five ideas below. Reese Ryzewski, SHAPE America’s 2020 Midwest District High School Physical Education Teacher of the Year, used the story of Jesse Owens to discuss discrimination in athletics.

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Physical Education Health Education Education 221

Moving Minds Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Just as phones and cellular service companies need updates and means to improve their value, schools need different techniques to encourage teachers to offer (or offer more) movement breaks. The post 5G: Motivating Teachers to Implement Movement Breaks appeared first on Moving Minds Blog.

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Motivation Movement Teacher Schooling 52

Reinventing the Game

AUGUST 11, 2024

It is difficult subject, wanting to enhance, educate, improve life skill movement that is almost unique to everyone through a generalised approach. I have to find some consensus as I have been a PE teacher for almost three decades and that is bound to mean something. What is its form? A paradox in approach to its existence.

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Physical Education Education Education PE 162

PLT4M

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

We explore some of the top physical education electives and how physical education teachers and programs across the country are encouraging lifetime fitness through a physical education electives model. >>> When Nicole Haese first revamped the Lifetime Fitness course, she had 1-2 sections a year.

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Physical Education Education Education Fitness 105

Active Schools Us

MARCH 30, 2022

Incorporating movement into the classroom can be stressful without the proper routines to calm and refocus students. This workshop will provide a variety of tools, tips, and techniques to help teachers navigate the transitions between sessions of physical activity. Featured Presenters: Virginia Chief Movement Officers Cadre.

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Academics Physical Activity Movement Elementary 130

Better Coaching

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Children have shorter limbs and different leverage points compared to adults, which influences their biomechanics during movements like throwing, kicking, or running. Cross-Training: Encourage children to engage in multiple sports, thereby distributing repetitive stresses across different muscle groups and movement patterns.

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Sports Sports Sport Biomechanics 98

SHAPE America

JUNE 23, 2022

We wrote the book for physical education teachers, preservice teachers in PETE programs, and their instructors to use in class and in after-school, recreation, and sports programs. White Fear in Black Spaces: Confronting the fear that many student-teachers have working in predominately Black schools. Additional Resources.

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Physical Education Education Education Physical Activity 221

Reinventing the Game

OCTOBER 9, 2021

The mention of such points may get you going as a teacher or result in a large sigh of exasperation that there are always folks trying to intellectualise the field of PE when it should be dead simple. It matters when we acknowledge that the movement is a life-skill and the recipients of our services are differentiated with many needs.

Physical Education 130

Physical Education PE Education Education 130

Gopher Sport

APRIL 19, 2024

Of the 4 standards, it’s probably fair to say that the new Standard 4 presents the most opportunity and some challenges for teachers. Key Components of Standard 4: Standard 4 states that students should develop personal skills, identify personal benefits of movement, and choose to engage in physical activity that is personally meaningful.

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Physical Activity Movement Motivation Physical Education 124

Active Schools Us

JANUARY 11, 2023

5 Ways Teachers Can Support Workday Wellness While Improving their Practice and the School Culture . Do this to the extent that your own practices and methods are improved as a teacher within your content area but allow yourself the breaks necessary to keep your focus during work times. By: Lisa Paulson. Kristian Ellingson.

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Education Education Teacher Physical Education 182

Reinventing the Game

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

I must say that every one of my articles were written as a result of an observation, some experience, some reading and connecting it to what I think I need to do better as a Physical Education (PE) teacher. There is a lack of leveraging on the role of voluntary non-survival movement and what this means in leading a better life.

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Physical Education Teaching Teaching PE 130

Reinventing the Game

AUGUST 27, 2021

The preceding words do sound like a tired teacher rather than reality. It is space and time that comes with joy and satisfaction in teaching and learning for teachers. We do not need teachers trained over multiple years to do that, honestly. The request for help from the small foreign teacher-training centre was eye opening.

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Physical Education PE Education Education 130

Reinventing the Game

MAY 1, 2021

I have been lamenting on this for our practise for some time, i.e. how we introduce movement evaluation cues directly as teaching cues to our learners. Much of the cues we derive from ideal movement solution may mean little to novices who are still exploring their own range of movement adaptations.

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Physical Education PE Education Education 130

Reinventing the Game

JANUARY 29, 2022

My own interest in Ecological Dynamics approaches when looking at how we interact with the world in our needed actions daily definitely takes up quite a bit of the time I have that is dedicated to professional development outside of the business of being a teacher leader on a day-to-day basis. It is not easy. Is living it.

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Physical Education PE Education Education 130

Aspire-Ed

MAY 1, 2024

What if pupils could achieve higher academic attainment while ticking off their daily movement and exercise targets? Boosting results with physically active learning Physically active learning challenges traditional, desk-based teaching methods by injecting movement into lessons. With physically active learning (PAL), they can.

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Physical Activity Movement Primary School Academics 52

PLT4M

APRIL 22, 2024

Instead, PE teachers can introduce basic gymnastics skills in just about any gymnasium or space. From here, teachers can create stations where students can spread out into smaller groups and practice different types of exercises. Teachers can pair and match different drills depending on total class time.

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Human Kinetics

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Human Kinetics author Erica Hornthal was a guest on Building America Now with David Bolanos to talk about her practice as a dance & movement therapist and her Body Awareness for Mental Health Online Course. . Erica Hornthal, LCPC, BC-DMT, is a licensed clinical professional counselor and board-certified dance and movement therapist.

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Movement Health Dance Conditioning 52

i-phys-ed

AUGUST 22, 2022

The blog post provided a few simple suggestions to encourage teachers to think critically about how they could improve the way that dance was being delivered in their physical education programs.If you were anything like me when I first came out of university, … Movement Composition: More Than Just Dance Read More ».

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Dance Movement Physical Education Teacher 52

Open Phys Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

These activities provide an opportunity for teachers to integrate rhythmic movement in a fun and engaging way. Personal enjoyment, social engagement, and having an appreciation for all movement forms will teach and reinforce skills and concepts while keeping the magic of movement alive. Teacher Evaluation.

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Fitness Fitness Physical Activity Academics 110

PLT4M

JUNE 17, 2023

Movement breaks, or brain breaks, are opportunities for students during the school day to get up out of their seats and move. In this article, we explore the benefits of movement activities and provide 15 different free movement breaks for the classroom. First, movement breaks promote increased focus and attention span.

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Movement Physical Activity Physical Education Academics 52