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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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Review of Adapted Physical Education and Sport, 7th Edition

Human Kinetics

Extensive research supports this well-known and extensively used assessment instrument. While competitive and elite competition is included, the span of activities in this new edition is also comprehensive in coverage of recreational and adventure physical activities.

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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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edTPA Preparation: A Guide Designed for PETE Students

Human Kinetics

The Educative Teacher Performance Assessment (edTPA) is “a uniform and impartial process to evaluate aspiring teachers” and is now used by over 900 institutions in 41 states ( edtpa.aacte.org ). . After a day of teaching, Nicholas often spends time up and moving by playing recreational hockey and softball with friends and family. .

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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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Curriculum Mapping For Physical Education

PLT4M

In order to move the profession forward and cater to student needs, we must constantly assess our curriculum and explore new pedagogies, curricula, and technology. Also popular were alternative Lifetime Fitness courses like HITT Bootcamps, Dance and Boxing, along with Recreational Activities like Spikeball, Pickleball, and Kan-Jam.