SHAPE America

OCTOBER 17, 2022

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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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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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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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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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. The impact of health. minds event.,

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SHAPE America

AUGUST 27, 2024

When it comes to preventing drug overdoses, being prepared means equipping middle and high school students, teachers, coaches, and community members with the knowledge to identify signs of a drug overdose and the skills and tools needed to respond quickly and effectively.

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Drowning in the Shallow

DECEMBER 31, 2022

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 →

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SHAPE America

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

As health educators, it is important to teach our students to be health literate. By using best practices in health education, specifically a skills-based health approach, health educators teach and assess health literacy skills that students will use throughout the rest of their lives.

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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. I am a National Board Certified elementary physical education teacher with more than 13 years of experience. Let me tell you a little bit about me.

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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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SHAPE America

MARCH 21, 2023

Because I still want my students to get outside for fresh air and some natural vitamin D, I’ve gotten creative with one of my favorite units, which focuses on a standards-based approach with teaching opportunities in social and emotional learning. One of the best outdoor activities I have found to teach these skills is sledding down a hill.

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SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Nilo was a preK-8 PE teacher and coach before going to higher education. Such experience has assisted his teaching, research, service, and advocacy efforts to support and improve the HPE profession. He has a Ph.D. in kinesiology (sport pedagogy) and an M.S. degree in health and physical education.

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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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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 3, 2024

This diverse mix of students, each with their unique stories and challenges, embody why I teach. To teach my students about these activities, I often go beyond my school’s traditional PE space — and use the city as my physical education classroom. And Renee, a new mother, looks visibly exhausted from juggling her responsibilities.

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SHAPE America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

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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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. Steven was a joy to teach with and so very knowledgeable. Open, I told some other New York City physical education teachers in a Facebook group.

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The PE Specialist

JANUARY 1, 2023

If you’re anything like me before you started teaching you didn’t really know much about jumping rope. To be honest, I didn’t know a single jump rope trick before I became a teacher. I would have never thought that I could spend 3-4 weeks teaching jump rope to students. What’s Up PhysEd Friends!

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The Everlearner

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Many PE teachers overtly teach sporting conduct including topics such as sportsmanship, gamesmanship and deviance. Furthermore, PE teachers often make reference to nuanced versions of these concepts such as fair play or etiquette and even types of deviance such as positive and negative deviance.

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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. We found them in the fifth and sixth grade teachers, who happened to be nature lovers (though not anglers). We noticed that once the students had gotten the lay of the land, they quickly started teaching one another.

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SHAPE America

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Teachers recommended 24 fifth-graders and 24 sixth-graders, who were then split into two groups per grade. He has been teaching for 17 years and resides in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, where he enjoys coaching and exploring the outdoors with his wife and three sons. Follow him on X @McKinneyPhysEd.

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SHAPE America

APRIL 20, 2023

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. Encourage them to teach you the rules and skills of the games. Take your classes outside!

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Alexandra Lemm

JUNE 30, 2021

Have you ever heard of teacher burnout? Along with that, time is usually of the essence while attempting to create and teach engaging lessons before the dreaded state test. It is one of the reasons that teachers look forward to summer, and for many, why they leave the field. . This is the harsh reality of pandemic teaching.

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The Everlearner

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Dear PE teachers, I wanted to take the opportunity to write a series of ideas that might help you to unite your teaching with GCSE PE with the experiences that students receive in GCSE biology. Therefore, I thought this post might support GCSE PE teachers in understanding their students' experiences as a whole.

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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. Each year we survey our staff on their interests and needs, and then find someone who is a local expert to teach us about the topic at hand.

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The PE Hub

APRIL 18, 2024

Breaking Boundaries: Teaching Cricket in Primary Schools As summer fast approaches (hopefully bringing the sunny weather with it), so do the ‘summer sports’ in PE. Each of these activities comes with different challenges when teaching in primary schools. However, this does not have to be the case.

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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. 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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PE Scholar

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Luke Jones shares his experience of a relentless pursuit to secure his first pe teacher job and how he got his first teaching post.

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The Everlearner

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In reality, what you will find in this post is a very considered and analytical approach to what to teach in a PE classroom that is based on evidence and years and years of successful teaching and learning.

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Relentless School Nurse

DECEMBER 5, 2022

I narrowed my career choices to nursing (like my cousin) or teaching (like my father) as a 17-year-old High School Senior. Now, 30 years later I get to work in a school as a nurse and visit classrooms to teach about health. Albeit I am a different kind of teacher, but I am teaching. I love my job!

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SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Several past presidents, the association’s executive director and secretary (a former HPE teacher and administrator) made more than 50 contacts speaking to school personnel from across the state. This task was assigned to the association secretary and a team of state, district and national teachers of the year.

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SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

They are cautionary tales for teens and their teachers about the importance of avoiding vaping and living nicotine free. Many teens will face similar challenges, but youth vaping is preventable, and teachers like you can help. Be proactive and address the dangers of vaping as part of your teaching and coaching strategy.

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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.

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SHAPE America

MAY 29, 2024

One way to prevent drowning is to teach children about being safer in, on and around the water — and do it in a fun, entertaining and memorable way. The program is being offered for free to educators, camp counselors and anyone who teaches groups of children. Join us and Longfellow the Whale in delivering vital life-saving lessons.

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Physical Education Update

AUGUST 2, 2022

There are three instructional formats that teachers can use, including SMART or Promethean interactive whiteboard, or Microsoft PowerPoint. Using both classroom instruction and activities, these lessons are a fun and easy way to teach students lifelong sun safety habits.

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Drowning in the Shallow

APRIL 8, 2023

This makes it both harder for teachers to teach and for children to learn and see PE as valuable in their education. When children turn up to PE we may not inform them of the learning intention and explain why that learning intention is valuable. If this happens our subject can seem to lack coherence. →

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The Everlearner

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

On Wednesday 18th of October 2023, I released Part 1 of this two-part series on the important elements of GCSE biology that GCSE PE teachers need to be aware of. In this week’s blog, I want to revisit and complete a post I released a fortnight ago. My role today is to follow that up with Part 2.

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