SHAPE America

AUGUST 11, 2022

What I’ve learned from these conversations is that even though our PETE programs may be different, our students are almost all struggling with the same issue — their professional transition from students to teachers. The heat really gets turned up as students enter the internship or student teaching phase. Running the Race.

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SHAPE America

OCTOBER 29, 2024

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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SHAPE America

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As American society and schools experience growing diversity and interconnectedness, our responsibilities as teachers must embrace pedagogical approaches that nurture and celebrate diversity, inclusion, and empathy. Reflection and Self-Evaluation Being an anti-racist educator requires continuous learning, self-reflection, and advocacy.

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SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

SHAPE America serves as the voice for 200,000+ health and physical education professionals across the United States, and the organization is committed to diverse leadership on its Board. She also coordinates the Physical Education Master’s Certification Program at the University of Maryland College Park. She has an Ed.D.

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Physical education electives offer an opportunity for students within a physical education program to select from a wide variety of different course options that suit their goals and interests. And this also comes at a time where physical education has been a hot topic of discussion in schools.

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SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Wisconsin Health and Physical Education (WHPE), a SHAPE America state affiliate, has been “speaking out” for quality health and physical education in Wisconsin for more than two decades. Advocating for health and physical education is worth the effort! Advocacy was at an all-time high that day thanks to “Dr.

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SHAPE America

MARCH 14, 2023

We teach at the Ancona School, a small, progressive elementary school in the Hyde Park area of Chicago’s South Side. Each year, our school’s Gone Fishin’ trip combines physical education with outdoor recreation. We found them in the fifth and sixth grade teachers, who happened to be nature lovers (though not anglers).

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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. Here are some examples of the types of grants I’ve received, along with my advice on how you might find similar grants for your physical education classes.

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PLT4M

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Mike Graham, PE teacher and founder of PE 4 Every Kid, is joining forces with PLT4M to enhance elementary physical education for students and teachers alike. Mike Graham, a dedicated PE teacher and founder of PE 4 Every Kid. The obvious choice? Mike won Elementary P.E.

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SHAPE America

AUGUST 2, 2023

How do you know what to teach in your physical education classes? I am a National Board Certified elementary physical education teacher with more than 13 years of experience. In 2022, I was honored to be named the SHAPE America National Elementary Physical Education Teacher of the Year.

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SHAPE America

OCTOBER 12, 2023

KYSHAPE provides daily slides with prompts, as well as activities and social media posts for each daily theme that administrators, health and physical educators, and other classroom teachers can use. As a health and physical education teacher, I teach kindness as part of my curriculum. minds event.,

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SHAPE America

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In 2023, I presented a session at the SHAPE America National Convention & Expo in Seattle with Jessica Adkins, the 2022 SHAPE America Western District High School Physical Education Teacher of the Year. When we teach students about death in health education, we can help them understand life, empathy, and resilience.

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Reinventing the Game

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

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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Reinventing the Game

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Precision in Physical Education (PE) – What is its role? It is something that once was a mainstay in the country I come from but now a subset of the bigger physical literacy push. You may still find older teachers and school curriculum still clinging to it. Or is it not? How about sport/game skills or abilities?

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SHAPE America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

There are fewer sunlit hours after school for children to be outside and physically active. This time of year, it is increasingly important to incorporate physical activity into the school day. Adding more movement — through physical education, recess and active classrooms — is essential for beating the almost-winter blues.

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Learning Through Sport

MARCH 1, 2025

In a prevous blog here I began to look at concept based curriculum model for physical education as an alternative to a multi-activity curriculum model. Inherent in adopting a concept or thematic based curriculum structure for physical education is that what is learnt is able to be transfered to other contexts.

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SHAPE America

MARCH 21, 2023

As a physical educator in northern Minnesota, I have to be prepared for long winters with lots of snow! Here are a few winter activities for elementary PE that include opportunities to practice personal responsibility, cultural studies, and physical fitness outside. They all asked me, “How do you build a snowball?”

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SHAPE America

OCTOBER 3, 2023

As a middle school health and physical education teacher, I know first-hand that initiatives impacting the whole school and surrounding community can be powerful. Be prepared to talk to parents, teachers, and administrators about why health literacy should be a focus for all students — not just the students in health class.

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Mark has been in the field of education since 1976. Mark’s journey in education brought him to Arizona in 1982 where he began teaching adapted physical education at the Arizona Schools for the Deaf and the Blind.

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SHAPE America

APRIL 20, 2023

And with the celebration of healthy lifestyles, active minds and bodies, let’s reflect on the importance of physical education and sports. Here are some tips to help you get started: For Teachers: Advocate for more outdoor recess and field days. Never underestimate your ability to create and teach new games and activities.

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SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

This year’s theme, according to the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), is Black Health and Wellness, which ties into the content areas of health and physical education. How can someone’s culture affect how they might take care of their health? Use Sports Stories to Talk About Discrimination.

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Physical Education Update

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

One thing about physical educators is that they realize the value of making lessons fun. This often applies for those physical educators who teach academic subjects. It’s a great example of the physical education attitude and training applied to academic teaching.

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Gopher Sport

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

SuperSafe Floor Hockey: A Unique and Safe Way to Teach Hockey in PE DOM Sports Hockey season is here! Incorporating floor hockey into a physical education curriculum is a great way to get kids motivated and involved in physical activity. Finding the right equipment can make all the difference.

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Physical Education Update

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It’s almost March break and teachers will soon be getting a long-deserved week of rest and recovery. Now, there are those who claim that teachers are overpaid for the amount of time they work and the number of holidays they receive. Teachers must be “on” for an entire school day. Do teachers deserve their holidays?

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Drowning in the Shallow

DECEMBER 22, 2024

This blog post is adapted from Teaching about planning in pre-service physical education teacher education: A collaborative self-study and is part of my evolving thoughts about how we teach planning to novice PE teachers. The way we teach novices PE teachers to plan is problematic.

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Open Phys Ed

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

This interactive event is designed for both the classroom and physical education. Each day, students will take part in engaging activities that encourage collaboration, kindness, and creativity, whether in the classroom or during physical education.

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Reinventing the Game

JUNE 15, 2021

These pair of words may sound simplistic and maybe even having negative literal connotations at first, especially if you have never encountered it with relation to learning and probably off-putting to someone who wants to teach better and got no appetite for seemingly obscure concepts. Rudd, Woods, Correira, Seifert, & Davids, 2021).

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Reinventing the Game

OCTOBER 23, 2020

For them, my attitude was to hear them out and present activities that was planned for by their original teacher. These two experiences are identifiable for many teachers. At every point in a teaching scenario, including before and after, the ideal situation will be a constant questioning of what we doing. processes.

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Reinventing the Game

AUGUST 11, 2024

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? The macro education environment seems to believe in its presence and its deserved existence but the worry for me is its micro presence in schools.

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Active Schools Us

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Physical education (PE) is critical to students’ overall development. Having well-trained, passionate PE teachers is essential to the success of any physical education program. Physical education can get confused with physical activity. PE and recess are not the same!

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Report Card on Physical Activity For Children and Youth from the Physical Activity Alliance has long served as a trusted resource for measuring and monitoring data surrounding overall physical activity and more specifically, physical education. Grade 10: 53.3% Grade 11: 40.2% Grade 12: 33.0%

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Active Schools Us

JUNE 6, 2024

Teachers can use adversity as an opportunity to help students get better, grow stronger, change, and learn. It teaches us valuable lessons, builds character, and can help us reach our highest potential. Adversity teaches us valuable lessons about ourselves, the power of endurance, and the importance of occasional discomfort.

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Gopher Sport

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

By: Gopher Community Physical Education teacher Heather Burd is not just an educator; she’s an example of resilience, compassion, and empowerment. Born with right hemiplegia, a partial paralysis on her right side—a condition as rare as she is unique—Heather has faced physical challenges from day one.

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Gopher Sport

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In the world of international education, there are those who simply teach, and then there are educators like Allison Deakin, Head of Department for Elementary PE and Swimming, JV & Varsity Badminton Coach, and former Activities Coordinator at GEMS Dubai American Academy (DAA). Her advice to other PE teachers? “Be

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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. I imagine no amount of formal words and directives can create this type of personal teacher thinking.

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Physical Education Update

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Who, after all, teaches snow-shovelers the essentials of lifting with the legs, keeping the back straight and avoiding rotational twisting of the torso while the feet are planted? It makes me wonder why we don’t we teach practical physical skills in PE…skills like shoveling snow, lifting sofas, cutting grass or hammering nails.

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Every November and December, public school students, parents, teachers and administrators face the difficult task of acknowledging the various religious and cultural holiday traditions celebrated during that time of year. Be aware that some religions teach that celebrating holidays and birthdays is unacceptable.

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