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How Professional Associations Have Made Me a Better Health and Physical Education Teacher and Leader

SHAPE America

Benefits of State Affiliate Membership As a young teacher, I decided to join SCAHPERD for the professional development opportunities. The leadership skills that I have developed serving within SCAHPERD have reflected on my growth as a leader as both department chair at my school and as a district lead teacher.

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New FDA Resource Helps Teachers Educate Students About the Dangers of Vaping

SHAPE America

Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products takes this issue seriously and prioritizes efforts to educate teachers, parents, health care providers, and youth about the dangers of youth vaping. The Vaping Prevention and Education Resource Center was created with the students’ health and teachers’ specific needs in mind.

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5 Tips for Moving Your Career Forward as a Health and Physical Education Teacher

SHAPE America

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. We, as teachers, are inherently placed in a position to exert influence and enact. Running the Race. Change is hard.

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Do Teachers Deserve All Their Holiday Time?

Physical Education Update

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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How Physical Education Plays a Core Role in Student Development

Speaker: Shane Pill PhD, MEd, BEd, LMACHPER, FACHPER - Physical Education and Sports Researcher, Professor, Consultant, and Speaker

It's when teachers are educationally purposeful and strengths-based in their planning, teaching, and assessment that physical education achieves the three dimensions of education in, through, and about movement.

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Introducing Students to New Lifetime Sports in a Mobile PE Class

SHAPE America

My name is Casey Page and I am a physical education teacher in Shelby County, Kentucky, which is a suburb of Louisville. I also coach golf and am an assistant athletic director at our school, but I have always thought of myself as a teacher first. As a PE teacher, you already know the gym gets stolen from you all the time.

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3 distinctions PE Teachers should know

Drowning in the Shallow

When we reduce things down to its simplest level the PE Teacher has only two things they have any control over to influence children’s learning in PE and making it a meaningful experience. The second is their teaching behaviours … Continue reading 3 distinctions PE Teachers should know →