Montessori Physical Education

JUNE 8, 2025

Now, before you come at me with pitchforks made of pool noodles, I acknowledge that physical education (PE) teachers face real, systemic challenges. 📚 📚 Education Scotland – Health and Wellbeing 🚀 Integration Is Not a Threat—It’s a Superpower Let’s be clear: integration is not a zero-sum game. .

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Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 5, 2025

The goal of physical education teaching is student learning and it is the teacher who has the responsibility for directing the learning through their curriculum (program design), pedagogy and assessment decision-making. Physial education teaching is therefore a goal directed activity.

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Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 31, 2025

In my last post here , I considered what it means to teach physical education for effective learning. In this blog, I connect back to an idea I have discussed before in relation to games based teaching here , that is making a physical education program meaningful. This is because physical education teachers are educators.

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What's New in Adapted Physical Education

JULY 27, 2022

For this episode we had a discussion with Dr. Ron Croce, a full professor at the University of New Hampshire, about his interesting career that intersected with adapted physical education, neurology, biomechanics, and motor learning.

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Physical Education Framework for California Public Schools is a 342-page document that outlines the California state standards for PE. This detailed framework breaks down everything from content standards to grade level outcomes, assessments, and more. For example, not all physical education programs have access to a pool.

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PLT4M

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Thus we can assess our ability to perform repetitions of bodyweight movements to track our relative strength overtime, before ever think about a barbell or heavy weights. Specifically, with the push up and pull up tests, we are assessing the muscular strength and endurance of the upper body.

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