Gopher Sport

JANUARY 15, 2025

Its simplicity allows for easy adaptation to different age groups and skill levels, making it an excellent tool for PE teachers looking to diversify their curriculum. Heres how Boardball can be adapted for younger students, why its a great fit for PE, and what educators are saying about it.

Fitness

The Everlearner

OCTOBER 30, 2024

This post is written for PE teachers or those teaching or coaching young people in an educational setting.

PE

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. I also only meet with each class once a week.

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

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. Teaching the next generation is a way of paying forward what has been fostered inside of me.

Physical Education

SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Cara has served and supported SHAPE America and SHAPE Maryland through service, training, Twitter chats (@CaraGrant11), coaching, mentoring, as a contributing author, and as a member of the SHAPE America EDI Podcast team. Nilo was a preK-8 PE teacher and coach before going to higher education. She has an Ed.D.

Physical Education

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

SHAPE America

JUNE 8, 2022

Our coach would run drills and teach us the rules, and we would play friendly games among ourselves. I started coaching girls athletics in the late 1980s. Megaera Regan Megaera Regan is a retired elementary physical education teacher from the Port Washington School District on Long Island. More Battles.

Elementary

The Everlearner

JULY 6, 2022

The biggest influences in my PE teaching career are the risks that I have taken. I have worked in six PE departments over 20 years, working alongside in the region of 100 PE teachers in total across that time period, as well as working indirectly with thousands of PE teachers now.

PE Teacher

Learning Through Sport

OCTOBER 10, 2021

There is limited evidence of sport teaching in physical education transferring to physical activity participation 'beyond the school gate' in any numerical sense of significance. Teaching for understanding argument. The shortfalls of this curriculum model for secondary school PE are well documented. Utility argument.

Teaching

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. We add to this challenge by also wanting to be very specific with our teaching outcomes, e.g. values, affective, skills , etc. So on and on the thoughts swirl.

Physical Education

Learning Through Sport

JULY 11, 2023

This study showed that personalised teaching with a focus on mastery learning leads to two standard deviation improvement in student learning outcomes as it enabled teachers to give more attention to student ‘higher mental processes’ – problem-solving, application of principles, analytical skills, and creativity. AI makes it possible.

Coaching

Heartzones

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

.” Graduating with a degree in Physical Education, she jumped into a career as a Nevada middle and high school PE teacher (1993-2003), a coach, and a Division 1 basketball official, but she yearned for even more. I also learned that teaching was fun and allowed me to continue to lead a healthy lifestyle.

Physical Education

PLT4M

JULY 14, 2022

Formative Assessment For Physical Education The Eberly Center at Carnegie Mellon has a simple way of defining formative assessments : The goal of formative assessment is to monitor student learning to provide ongoing feedback that can be used by instructors to improve their teaching and by students to improve their learning. Find a Time.

Assessment

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

Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 25, 2023

Physical Education teachers and sport coaches have in common the development of a curriculum (program of learning) and the method (pedagogy) to teach the content of the curriculum. What to teach Physical education programs package the content, pacing, spacing and progression of learning into a design called a curriculum.

Coaching

Player Development Project

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

What experience are you delivering as a coach and what legacy are you leaving for young people? PE Teacher and blogger, Sporticus reflects on his own practice and evolution as a coach, outlining the importance of creating environments for children that go beyond just playing sport. ‘If

PE Teacher

Gopher Sport

AUGUST 28, 2024

Here are five reasons to start teaching tennis in your PE classes: 1. We are PE teachers. NetGenerationSchoolsManualGrades-3and4 Skill Development Videos: Not sure you are teaching the skill correctly, No Problem! USTA has teaching videos that are also found on YouTube and the free Net Generation App.

Schooling

Learning Through Sport

MARCH 4, 2022

I often read that in the 1970's the idea of 'quality' teaching began to transition from teacher-directed, explained from a behavourist perspective as direct instruction for replication of the teachers knowledge or the knowledge provided by the teacher and the skills and abilities demonstrated by the teacher, to student centred.

Agility

PLT4M

APRIL 17, 2023

Historically, sport coaches and strength coaches have worked with high school athletes, but now physical education teachers are getting involved. Next, not all PE teachers tasked with running a weight room class have experience in writing and creating strength and conditioning programs. Download Now!

High School

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?

Schooling

Learning Through Sport

JUNE 30, 2021

Developments in curriculum frameworks around the world have formalised a rationale for critical thinking, problem solving and creativity in PE as elements in both curriculum design and in the wording of student achievement standards.

Convergent Discovery

Heartzones

MAY 30, 2023

The online program offered by Heart Zones allowed students to use the sensors at home while allowing their teacher, Coach Ami Schulte, to see their progress. What do you wish other PE teachers understood or knew about Heart Zones? After the first day of teaching students how to use the monitors it is a smooth process.”

Schooling

PLT4M

JULY 31, 2023

By tracking their progress, teachers can identify individual student learning needs and tailor their teaching methods to suit each student better. It helps teachers and educational institutions evaluate the effectiveness of their curriculum and teaching methods.

Physical Education

PLT4M

AUGUST 25, 2022

PE teacher Adam Hughes reviews with a student how to scale a movement with a PVC pipe. Therefore, we scale and teach depth over time rather than jeopardize foot placement, knee path, or maintenance of the lumbar curve. Any type of injury from working out will likely stop a student’s fitness journey in its tracks.

Exercise

Heartzones

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

“ What I like most about using Heart Zones is being able to refocus my time, attention, and efforts on teaching rather than crowd control.” “Thank you” “I get it now coach!” ” “How did I do today coach?” Most of their Heart Zones purchase was a result of approved grants.

Middle School

Aspire-Ed

APRIL 26, 2022

Liam continues to play golf and has a handicap of 5, he coaches his son’s (U12’s) and daughter’s (U9’s) football teams, valuing the chance to provide his own children and their teammates with key opportunities to lead healthy lives. And why teaching? Liam had great teachers, two of them being PE teachers.

Primary School

PLT4M

MARCH 24, 2023

PE teachers see phys ed apps as a way to enhance and improve student learning. For example, Judd Hunter is a PE teacher at Arlington High School in Washington. Finally, these are individual apps that provide you, as the PE teacher, no insights into the progress or improvement of your students.

Phys Ed

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. Let’s explore the best practices that will help keep your school’s weight room a safe and productive space for all. >>>

Schooling

PLT4M

JUNE 14, 2022

There is no one set way to teach physical education. 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. Sue is a high school P.E.

Physical Education

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

Physical Education Ideas

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

The lead up for Xmas for me means finishing 300 assessments across the school, reports, organising our junior school swimming carnival, managing/coaching as part of our interschool sports program and planning lessons on top of that… oh, and writing this blog. It’s all you need to live a perfect, stress free life as a PE teacher.

PE Teacher

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

Heartzones

MARCH 24, 2022

At a glance: High school PE teacher (25+ years) and assistant football coach at Stillwater Public Schools in Stillwater, MN. . Butch Nash Outstanding Assistant Coach Award – 2019. Awarded Minnesota State Physical Education Teacher of the Year 2018. A Trailblazer you should know: . DARRELL SALMI.

Obesity

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

Teaching Physical Education for 17 years in the Topeka Metropolitan area has been a labor of love and a highlight of my life. We will be there with our Reaction Intelligence Wall to challenge and inspire athletes and coaches alike, further cementing the role of innovative technology in advancing physical education.

Motivation

PLT4M

JUNE 7, 2022

Additionally, color coded T-shirts earned for lifting standards are examples of an external regulation (reward) and can provide incentive for hard work, dedication in the weight room, and status with teammates and coaches. Use reciprocal and self-check teaching styles. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education , 36 (3), 277–291.

Motivation