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

SHAPE America

These notes became the foundation for a two-part series we would later write for the Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD), “Transitioning From Students of Teaching to Teachers of Students.”. Reflection and honest self-assessment often reveal painful truths about our true willingness to move forward and adapt.

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World Heart Day Q&A with Stanford Children’s Heart Doctors

Stanford Childrens

For the majority of young children with heart disease, recreational play is not restricted. Moderate exercises include brisk walking, dancing, biking, and recreational swimming. We assess our young heart patients’ progress throughout the program and set new goals as their fitness improves.

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Dr. Jacalyn Lund Awarded Luther Halsey Gulick Medal

Human Kinetics

After graduating from Michigan State University, Dr. Lund began her 16 year public school teaching career in Colorado where she also served as president of the Colorado Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (CAHPERD). Leaving Colorado, she graduated with her Ph.D.

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Student Centered Learning Examples Using Technology

PLT4M

3) Identify curricular models, including the activities that will allow students to reach the outcomes stated in the standards Aligning the student learning objectives, assessment strategies, and learning activities is known as instructional alignment (Lund & Tannehill, 2015). Source: Clayton, M., Martino, M., Pritchard, T.,

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Adapted Physical Education – The Call For Inclusion

PLT4M

To achieve this recommendation, children and youth must participate in a quality physical education program and physical activity throughout the day in addition to recreational or competitive sports. Being physically active leads to the development of cognitive skills among children.

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What does the Adapted Physical Education teacher really do?

Arizona Health and Physical Education

And then there is the business of conducting assessments, writing yearly goals and short-term objectives (all aligned with the state standards), and writing progress reports. Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 81 (2), p.40-50. Click on the following link for more information including a convention schedule: .

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5 Tips To Technology Use In Physical Education

PLT4M

Many teachers can use technology to quickly deliver assessments and surveys. For example, a teacher can create a formative pre-assessment or a practice test on Google Forms and share the link with students. Self-assessment and peer assessments has been shown to be enhanced through the use of video analysis (O’loughlin et al.,