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Add Movement to the School Day to Boost Student Physical Activity and Learning

SHAPE America

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. They perform better on standardized and functional assessments.

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Teaching physical education for effective learning

Learning Through Sport

Teaching is a complex and sometimes complicated endeavour. 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.

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Stop Hiding Behind the Whistle: Why PE Needs to Get in the Classroom Game

Montessori Physical Education

Meanwhile, there has been a national movement towards cross-curricular integration. Most PE teachers teach six, seven, or even eight classes a day with barely a moment in between. It doesn’t mean less movement. Because the truth is, we’ve been using the same excuses for too long: “We don’t have time.” It’s not our job.”

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The National PE Standards Set the Structure — You Provide the Paint

SHAPE America

Students around the field are throwing and catching discs, learning movement skills, encouraging one another, and enjoying physical activity in the process. Grade-Level Outcome (Grade 4): Praises the movement performance of others both more skilled and less skilled. I threw it too far,” the thrower apologizes. That is the “structure.”.

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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

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.

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Mike Graham, PE Teacher, Partners with PLT4M

PLT4M

This exciting partnership will provide schools with a comprehensive and engaging K-5 PE curriculum designed to foster movement, skill development, and a lifelong love of physical activity. Since beginning his teaching career in 1996, Mike has dedicated himself to promoting meaningful and engaging PE experiences for young students.

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Review of Teaching Fundamental Motor Skills, Fourth Edition

Human Kinetics

Teaching Fundamental Motor Skills, Fourth Edition , is the one must-have book for all new and veteran elementary physical education teachers! A corresponding picture for each cue shows proper movement form, which allows students to see and say as they do to mesh auditory, visual, and kinesthetic learning.