Montessori Physical Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

As a PE teacher in a Montessori school, I know my situation is unique compared to PE teachers in traditional schools. My class sizes are smaller than the horror stories I read about on Facebook from teachers who have to manage fifty or more students at a time. It was an eye-opening and fulfilling exercise.

PE Teacher

Magnus Health

APRIL 24, 2025

Teachers, nurses, athletic staff, and faculty can help decrease student stress levels. It’s not up to the teacher to fix the stress, as it’s unlikely that stress is coming from you. Teachers can incorporate breathwork into the classroom as well. Instead, it’s about holding space for the child.

Nervous system

PLT4M

JULY 30, 2025

Coaches need tools that help them plan, deliver, and adapt workouts for a wide range of student-athletes. >>> Free Download: The Essential Guide To Teaching Weight Training What Coaches Look For in a Strength and Conditioning Program Template Coaches want a clear structure that organizes lifts, movements, and conditioning pieces.

Strength

SHAPE America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

LESSONS FROM HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATORS We need health and physical education (HPE) teachers to flood classrooms at all levels with ideas and inspiration. HPE teachers already have it figured out! As the American College of Sports Medicine puts it, Exercise is Medicine. Active and healthy students are better learners.

Physical Activity

SHAPE America

APRIL 18, 2023

Every May, we celebrate physical educators and coaches — the “champions” who help kids gain the confidence, competence, and motivation to be physically active in school, before and after school, and for the rest of their lives. Here is a sample fun beginner circuit (listed as a regression/primary exercise/progression).

Motor Skills

SHAPE America

DECEMBER 13, 2022

If you are a teacher, coach, counselor, or parent of teens, you know they are not immune to stress at this time of year. Eating healthy food, getting enough rest, and making time to exercise are three ways they can counter the challenges of the season and get ready for the new year. Help Teens Focus on Health and Avoid Nicotine.

Exercise

PLT4M

AUGUST 25, 2022

Exercise and fitness should not be a one size fits all approach. Modified exercises allow every individual to succeed in fitness. In this blog, we will explore 5 exercise modification examples that are an excellent addition to any physical education class or workout. Let’s use the push-up as an example. Get Access Here.

Exercise

Heartzones

AUGUST 10, 2023

Applying the principles for intense exercise requires immediate feedback. These principles of individualized instruction, in group settings, become impossible to implement for intense exercise, when there is no immediate feedback. What individual exercise intensity records are documented from physical education or sport?

Physical Education

PLT4M

MAY 10, 2023

Exercise and self esteem go hand in hand. Regular exercise can help boost your confidence and self-esteem while improving your overall physical and mental health. This article will explore the relationship between exercise and self esteem and how schools utilize exercise to increase confidence and self-esteem via physical education.

Exercise

Heartzones

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

My muscle doesn’t know the difference if I’m digging in the yard, carrying heavy shopping bags, or lifting a dumbbell.” ( Source & Study ) What is going on inside the body during strength exercises? Notice the elastic bands in the partner drills, that provide leg resistance exercise, while also providing cardio conditioning.

Physical Education

Heartzones

JUNE 1, 2023

Parent/Teacher Conferences with Physical Educators: Show me the data for 50% of the physical education grade – Effort. Parent/Teacher Conferences Now consider showing the parents the heart rate graph of their child for every physical education class! Where is the history of exercise data stored for every student?

Physical Education

Reinventing the Game

APRIL 14, 2022

It is a combination of work stress, doubts about alignment of what I want with what it should it be like to be a Physical Education (PE) teacher, fatigue, etc. came after a discussion with a fellow teacher in the all-consuming discussion of what PE is and what it should look like. Or is it vice versa?

Physical Education

The PE Geek

MAY 7, 2023

With over a million downloads and a multitude of positive testimonials, this innovative app has proven to be an invaluable tool for PE teachers and students alike. These lesson plans incorporate the Balance It app to provide engaging and effective resources to help students develop gymnastic skills through balancing exercises.

PE Teacher

Heartzones

MAY 31, 2023

Engage in intense exercises and watch your core temperature soar. Its mobile individual app allows coaches to track the core temperature of their athletes. Now, let’s kick things into high gear with some action-packed lessons and watch this short video. The heat is on, and soon you’ll start sweating to cool things down.

Coaching

PLT4M

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The purpose of this collaboration is to support physical education teachers and coaches to provide better access and inclusion for students with disabilities. . This can often result from teachers not knowing how to work with students with disabilities in physical education classes.

Motor Skills

Aspire-Ed

MAY 18, 2023

For teachers and coaches, it means all those things and more. According to Sport England, physically literate children are more likely to be active for the long term – but more than half of children aged five to 15 in England aren’t doing the recommended daily amount of exercise. What’s the qualification about?

Coaching

Montessori Physical Education

APRIL 2, 2022

If you have any previous athletic or weight training experience (which I assume most of you have since you are PE teachers), then the information he provides through his Instagram account might be all you need. Even though my knees feel 100x better, whether I need it or not, I will subscribe as a thank you for all he has done for me.

Coaching

Arizona Health and Physical Education

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The individual providing the adapted physical education should collaborate with the occupational therapist, the physical therapist, the special education teacher, parents and/or the physical education teacher to meet the child’s needs related to: ● health and safety, including specific medical needs ● modifications of equipment or the environment.

Physical Education

The Sporting

MARCH 24, 2023

followers AKA, the body coach, Joe Wicks is one of the most popular fitness trainers out there. Kelsey believes that low-impact exercises are very helpful for your body, and she shares plenty of yummy healthy recipes, useful workout ideas and updates from her life journey. Instagram: @jenselter 2. Joe Wicks : 4.6m

Fitness

PLT4M

MARCH 15, 2023

And with all of these factors at play, there is also rarely a certified strength and conditioning coach or professional managing all this. In fact, only about 10-15% of high schools report having a full-time certified strength coach. Students and coaches alike can access everything they need to work through a training session.”

High School

PLT4M

JUNE 14, 2023

At the heart of any good strength and conditioning software is a streamlined management tool that can make life easier for coaches, teachers, and personal trainers. Teambuildr – A training software geared towards professional and collegiate sports teams that have certified strength coaches. More on this later).

High School

Gopher Sport

APRIL 10, 2024

So impactful, that Topeka School District decided to create a whole day of Professional Development and purchase BlazePod for each elementary Physical Education teacher in the district. I set up 8 cones around the gym, and labeled each of them with a different exercise or activity that I want them to do. Set a timer for 5 – 10 minutes.

Motivation

PLT4M

JANUARY 11, 2024

Whether you’re a PE teacher, a coach, or a school administrator, understanding and implementing safety protocols is key to fostering a positive and safe weight training experience for students. While this can happen with sports coaches and teams, the best place to start this introduction is through physical education classes.

Schooling

Heartzones

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

For the first time , the Physical and Health Education teacher, the coach, and the after school program directions are able to see live biofeedback on a student’s response to different exercise intensities. But, what if the numbers displayed on the visual Big Board are unusual?

Assessment

Heartzones

MARCH 2, 2022

Imagine a new direction in physical education… Imagine having individual exercise data that was immediately sent to student records, the student, and the parents, each day from physical education classes. We cannot recommend exercise prescriptions to “groups” of individuals. Heart Zones Inc. Lesson Design: Documenting Results.

Physical Education

PLT4M

JUNE 7, 2022

Sean Fullerton is a former secondary physical education teacher and current Ph.D. student at the University of New Mexico in the Health, Exercise, and Sports Science Department. Teachers can fall into the trap of believing certain students don’t have the disposition for physical activity or exercise, which is far from the truth.

Motivation

PLT4M

MARCH 6, 2023

He specializes in creating training and physical resources for physical education teachers to promote the inclusion of students with disabilities. Teachers must provide instruction supported by Universal Design for Learning (UDL). This article is part of an on-going partnership between PLT4M, Lakeshore Foundation, and NCHPAD.

Physical Education

PLT4M

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Sean Fullerton is a former secondary physical education teacher and current Ph.D. student at the University of New Mexico in the Health, Exercise, and Sports Science Department. Organizing the learning environment in physical education (PE) can be a daunting task for teachers, especially with large classes. Siedentop et al.,

Cooperative Learning

Heartzones

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

“I think Heart Zones is a very impactful tool that teachers can utilize to create a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) classroom…” ~ Brian Nassif, PE Teacher at Albert Einstein Academies What was your first experience with Physical Education technology? for their motivation to play/move.

Schooling

PLT4M

JUNE 8, 2023

F – Frequency – how often will you exercise? I – Intensity – how hard do you work during your exercise? T – Time – how long do you exercise during each session? T – Type of exercise – what types of workouts will be a part of your workout program?

Physical Education

School Yard

MARCH 19, 2019

Teachers know, however, that activities reinforcing focus and mindfulness have been useful and beneficial for students for many years. Students and teachers alike use concepts relating to mindfulness to make education more effective and help students learn to manage emotions and practice self-management. Stress is hard on the body.

Physical Education

PLT4M

APRIL 17, 2023

Historically, sport coaches and strength coaches have worked with high school athletes, but now physical education teachers are getting involved. A physical education teacher works with a student in a high school strength and conditioning class. Better yet, it was designed for all students, not just for athletes.”

High School

PLT4M

MARCH 24, 2023

We break down what makes for a great physical education app for teachers, students, and schools. And we hear teachers refer to students as “digital natives,” meaning that they grew up with technology and have used it almost like it is second nature. How can we turn that it into physical activity and exercise?

Phys Ed

PLT4M

MARCH 21, 2023

Lastly, we will talk about some of the common mistakes when performing the hang clean and break down tips and tricks to maximize the exercise. It must be acknowledged that there is some discrepancy amongst coaches, teachers, and trainers as to what catch constitutes a standard clean rep, regardless of starting position.

Movement

Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 5, 2021

Concentrate" I have often heard coaches say versions of this statement to players. How then do we coach to teach players to concentrate - metaphorically, to shine an intentional 'spotlight' on the things to attend to?

Teaching

PLT4M

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Sean Fullerton is a former secondary physical education teacher and current Ph.D. student at the University of New Mexico in the Health, Exercise, and Sports Science Department. Student centered learning places the focal point of instruction on the individual needs of the students, rather than the teacher. PLT4M Classroom.

Assessment

PLT4M

APRIL 5, 2023

And as more people saw the upside of weight training programs in the 70s and 80s, high school coaches also wanted to tap into the benefits of weightlifting for young athletes. But most high school coaches had little experience or knowledge in the weight room. At times, we have upwards of 60 students in the weight room.

High School