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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

In my bigger teaching environment, much effort is also put into the character and citizenship development of the leaners and this role is expected of all teachers, including the academic teachers with clear examinable performance indicators. Teaching Games for Understanding is a multi-step process.

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

Reinventing the Game

I have to find some consensus as I have been a PE teacher for almost three decades and that is bound to mean something. My personal dive (too shallow) into skill acquisition sciences is unsuccessfully not seeing the relationship/interaction aspect of classroom teaching environment, at least not so directly. The struggle is real.

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Self-Efficacy of PE Teachers to Work with Children with Disabilities

What's New in Adapted Physical Education

In another exciting episode of What's New in APE, we interviewed Lindsey Nowland ( @LindseyNowland), a PhD candidate from Old Dominion University, about her research expertise in adapted physical education (APE), particularly focusing on self-efficacy when teaching students with disabilities in PE settings.

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What does Skills and Values look like in Physical Education (PE)?

Reinventing the Game

It is a combination of work stress, doubts about alignment of what I want with what it should it be like to be a Physical Education (PE) teacher, fatigue, etc. We add to this challenge by also wanting to be very specific with our teaching outcomes, e.g. values, affective, skills , etc. So on and on the thoughts swirl.

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High School Strength and Conditioning Curriculum

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As a result, physical education teachers have to figure out if every student should be on the same training program or if there need to be multiple programs going on in the weight room at one time. Next, not all PE teachers tasked with running a weight room class have experience in writing and creating strength and conditioning programs.