Assessment Movement Sports 
SHAPE America
JULY 24, 2025
Like most of you, my purpose is to encourage all students to love movement — in all its forms. How can it benefit students for other sports? This gives kids purpose and makes assessment easier. “I Do you begin class with two minutes of locomotor movement? You won’t feel so overwhelmed. Why are we doing it?
Montessori Physical Education
JUNE 8, 2025
Meanwhile, there has been a national movement towards cross-curricular integration. It could involve using heart rate data in a graphing activity, analyzing movement mechanics in a science unit, or playing a traditional indigenous sport from a culture the students are studying. It doesn’t mean less movement. Start small.
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Learning Through Sport
JANUARY 31, 2025
Sport Education. The Sport Education model (SEM: Siedentop, 1995) defines the content of physical education as representation of authentic sport experiences. A season of sport. Sport, Dance, Outdoor Pursuits, Active Recreation) areas in achieving the "physically educated" goal of the curriculum framework.
PLT4M
JULY 25, 2025
Motor skills, fitness education, social-emotional learning, sport skills, and personal wellness all come into play. From foundational movement to advanced fitness, our programs are structured, flexible, and student-centered. These skills are essential building blocks for more complex movements later on.
Speaker: Shane Pill PhD, MEd, BEd, LMACHPER, FACHPER - Physical Education and Sports Researcher, Professor, Consultant, and Speaker
By providing education in movement competency, education on using movement to develop the ability to be self-regulated and motivated, and education through movement to develop ‘habits of mind’ for positive and constructive engagement with others, PE provides a basis for personal and community health and wellbeing.
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. Movement learning should therefore feature as the primary goal of all physical education programs. Criteria 4.
SHAPE America
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Adding more movement — through physical education, recess and active classrooms — is essential for beating the almost-winter blues. Elementary students get the majority of their movement during the school day in physical education (PE) and recess. As the American College of Sports Medicine puts it, Exercise is Medicine.
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