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

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

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. HPE teachers already have it figured out!

Physical Activity

SHAPE America

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As American society and schools experience growing diversity and interconnectedness, our responsibilities as teachers must embrace pedagogical approaches that nurture and celebrate diversity, inclusion, and empathy.

Physical Education

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. Be creative and include them in games and movement challenges.

Motor Skills

SHAPE America

MAY 23, 2023

As an elementary physical education teacher in the Bronx, NY, I’m always looking for ways to stretch my PE budget and introduce my students to new physical activities. It came with a top-notch Bluetooth speaker, subscription to the service, and the Billie Jean King Eye Coach (think batting tee for tennis).

Physical Education

SHAPE America

APRIL 20, 2023

Here are some tips to help you get started: For Teachers: Advocate for more outdoor recess and field days. Make new friends through movement. Reach out to your local school’s physical education teacher for more information and opportunities. Take your classes outside! Introduce new games that are easy to learn, but fun to play.

Physical Activity

Active Schools Us

MARCH 24, 2021

As a basketball fanatic and coach, I challenge all sports fans and caring community members to take a quick break from March Madness to advocate for one often overlooked part of our education system that is critical to the development of the student athletes who are wowing us during this year’s tournament: physical education.

Coaching

Reinventing the Game

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

You may still find older teachers and school curriculum still clinging to it. It doesn’t help that evaluation process across subjects prefer clear quantitative data to compare teacher performances. This means that precise movements are needed in push-ups and sit-ups to trigger the automatic count. Or is it not?

Physical Education

Reinventing the Game

MARCH 13, 2021

I can sort of make out who the coach, the physical trainer, the assistants, etc. The next understanding that I wanted was what if the same group of learners pass through different teachers at any one learning phase of their life, e.g. in a term. Can this teacher constraint go as far as changing internal learning mechanisms?

Physical Education

The PE Geek

APRIL 9, 2023

2016), video feedback provides a visual learning experience that can help students better understand their movements and identify areas for improvement. Personalized Feedback: Video feedback allows teachers to provide personalized feedback to each student. According to a study by Graham et al.

PE

Skillastics

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Movement is defined as changing the position of one’s body parts relative to each other. Physical activity is defined as intentional voluntary movement directed toward achieving a goal. The definitions of movement and physical activity are different, but we use the words interchangeably.

Physical Activity

PLT4M

JULY 22, 2022

What started as a passion project for our two co-founders while they were teaching and coaching has since grown into a nationwide fitness and health movement. Thank you to all of the teachers and coaches who share our mission of empowering students with the love and skills for lifelong fitness. The original logo of PLT4M.

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

Open Phys Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Grade 7) Provides corrective feedback to a peer, using teacher-generated guidelines, and incorporating appropriate tone, and other communication skills. Grade 8) Provides encouragement and feedback to peers without prompting from the teacher.

Middle School

Aspire-Ed

MAY 18, 2023

For teachers and coaches, it means all those things and more. It’s where they learn Fundamental Movement Skills – from balancing to throwing a ball – that blossom into sporting talents and vital life tools like teamwork and taking part. It gives pupils a better start in life.

Coaching

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Recent evidence suggests that adding developmentally appropriate cognitive demands to patterned movement stimulates executive function and the precursor skills to reading and math ( Paschen et al., The ability to synchronize movements with rhythm is fundamental to children’s ability to pull to a stand, walk, run, skip, and gallop.

Physical Education

PLT4M

AUGUST 25, 2022

PE teacher Adam Hughes reviews with a student how to scale a movement with a PVC pipe. And as teachers and coaches, it is our job to help each individual reach their full potential. By even just providing a few different exercise modification examples in a class or workout, you can open up the door to so many more students.

Exercise

Learning Through Sport

JULY 13, 2021

There are many versions of game-based approache s to sport teaching and coaching. When using a GBA, the term “guided” does not imply an implicit “game as teacher” learning environment. Instead, it is a purposeful environment deliberately constructed and shaped by the pedagogical actions of the teacher (Pill, 2017).

Teaching

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

Learning Through Sport

MAY 18, 2021

constructivism and complex learning) relevant to sport coaching have been used to suggest that it is preferable to retain the logic of play by simplifying the representation of the game as the focus if not the majority of the learning to play experience, especially with novices. Both skill acquisition theory (e.g.

Coaching

FACTS Management

AUGUST 11, 2022

You don’t have to work in the education industry to know that the last few years have been tough for teachers. This burnout has led to increasing numbers of educators leaving the field, putting even more pressure on remaining teachers. While there’s no magic cure for burnout, one of the best ways to combat it is to prioritize wellness.

Wellness

Learning Through Sport

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Small sided games (SSGs) have been part of the coaching lexicon for decades. It is therefore difficult to generalise the value of SSG for sport coaching or sport teaching in PE, when there is an absence of research into the use of SSGs in most game categories and in general, most sports.

Conditioning

MSU

APRIL 12, 2019

Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Sport Coaching and Leadership Online Programs. Perhaps the most important goal for coaches is developing the movement skills of their athletes. Perhaps the most important goal for coaches is developing the movement skills of their athletes. The answer is simple, right?

Coaching

Skillastics

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Movement is defined as changing the position of one’s body parts relative to each other. Physical activity is defined as intentional voluntary movement directed toward achieving a goal. The definitions of movement and physical activity are different, but we use the words interchangeably.

Physical Activity

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). One of the simplest ways of adapting an activity is to modify or substitute the movement involved.

Physical Education

Learning Through Sport

JUNE 4, 2022

Professional development is 'big business' with globally billions of dollars annually invested in teacher and educator continuing learning (Kraft et al., The rationale for this spend is improvement in student outcomes (teacher PD) and player outcomes (coach PD). How do we address the decline in general movement ability?

Teaching

Learning Through Sport

JULY 11, 2023

In this video, Sal explains that while we have seen AI can help teachers with lesson planning, and we have seen teachers and systems worry that AI will do the 'work' of students for them, and therefore use of AI needs to monitored and controlled. AI and sport teaching and coaching. AI makes it possible.

Coaching

PLT4M

JULY 31, 2023

Benefits of Tracking Student Progress – The Why Tracking student progress benefits students, teachers, administrators, and families. By tracking their progress, teachers can identify individual student learning needs and tailor their teaching methods to suit each student better.

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.

High School

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

Learning Through Sport

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Three basic strategies have been used in physical education for the promotion of meaningful movement participation, which I will align with the focus area of sport: Prudential – the argument that movement is a useful tool towards achieving wellness. I.e. if you do not adopt an active lifestyle your life expectancy will be shortened.

Teaching

Learning Through Sport

JUNE 30, 2021

McBride (1999) suggested that if PE teachers deliberately structure lessons with the need for critical thinking and creativity in mind, students will learn the cognitive skills and the dispositions that support them will be reinforced.

Convergent Discovery

PLT4M

MARCH 21, 2023

The hang clean is a popular movement in strength and conditioning programs. The Clean – Key Terms For This Olympic Weightlifting Movement The clean (as part of the clean and jerk) is one of only 2 olympic lifts – the other being the Snatch (just like the squat, bench press, and deadlift are considered “Power Lifts”).

Movement

Learning Through Sport

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

GBAs provide an alternative to the technical orientated ‘behavourist’ teaching and sport coaching which is based on a dominance of direct instruction for replication of prescribed movement models (Pill & Hyndman, 2018): what Tinning (2010) described as demonstrate-explain-practice.

Sports

Physical Education Ideas

JULY 27, 2019

In fact, there are thousands of teachers out there experiencing this probably as you read. As children develop cognitively, their play will move more towards games with sophisticated rules which brings in the importance of fundamental movement skills. ENTER PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHER. Have you ever been in a P.E.

Physical Education

PLT4M

JUNE 14, 2022

All across the country, physical education teachers tweak and adapt physical education curriculum models to support their unique group of students. teacher in Arizona Her school just signed up for PLT4M, and the P.E. There is no one set way to teach physical education. Sue is a high school P.E. chair has invited her and the other P.E.

Physical Education