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Creating an Effective Health and Wellness Club at School

SHAPE America

As a physical education teacher at Hebron High School in Carrollton, TX, I developed a Health and Wellness Club for our ninth-grade campus as an initiative to reduce obesity and related comorbidities that are associated with sedentary lifestyles and a lack of physical activity.

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Add Movement to the School Day to Boost Student Physical Activity and Learning

SHAPE America

LESSONS FROM HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATORS We need health and physical education (HPE) teachers to flood classrooms at all levels with ideas and inspiration. HPE teachers already have it figured out! Teachers will notice a boost in student focus and attention span after a movement break.

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Precision in Physical Education (PE) – What is its role?

Reinventing the Game

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. It is something that once was a mainstay in the country I come from but now a subset of the bigger physical literacy push. Or is it not?

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Obesity, Hunger, Inactivity and the Search for Hidden Answers

Physical Education Update

It raises some interesting questions about our perception of the causes of obesity, hunger and lack of activity. tags]physical education,obesity,childhood obesity,inactivity,exercise/code> [/tags] Hi Readers, I just received this email from long-time reader and physical educator, David Flax of South Africa.

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Teaching Health & Physical Education - Everyday is the way

Physical Education Ideas

In this blog post, we will explore the reasons why teaching Health and Physical Education is crucial and how literacy is the foundational skill upon which all knowledge is built. Moreover, regular physical activity reduces the risk of chronic diseases, including heart disease, obesity, and diabetes. character development 2.

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Adapted Physical Education – The Call For Inclusion

PLT4M

He specializes in creating training and physical resources for physical education teachers to promote the inclusion of students with disabilities. Alex has an undergraduate degree in Physical Education Teaching and a master’s degree in Curriculum and Teaching in Physical Education.

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Should PE get a 'divorce' from HPE?

Learning Through Sport

Has too much emphasis shifted from teaching in PE for 'participatory objectives' to other objectives while the need for teaching for learning attainment of movement competence has never been more needed in Australia? Teacher ability to teach for and subsequently expect movement skill attainment seems less obvious.

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