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The Heart Behind Field Day

Mr. Kirsch

As an elementary PE teacher, I spend the entire year helping students build skills, confidence, and a love for physical activity. As PE teachers, we design engaging stations, coordinate volunteers, adapt for all abilities, and often pull it off with limited resources. Field Day is where our passion meets purpose.

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Introducing Students to New Lifetime Sports in a Mobile PE Class

SHAPE America

As a PE teacher, you already know the gym gets stolen from you all the time. With the help of several different avenues (especially my family youth service coordinator, Christina Olsson), I always have funding, so no student misses a trip because they can’t afford it. I think this also leads to a positive class culture.

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Daily Physical Education as an Academic and Behavioral Intervention

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You’ve got to coordinate, sense, process, integrate, inhibit, and continually make decisions.” If biking doesn’t work at your school, here are some other activity ideas: Running Hiking Strength Training Cross-Country Skiing The timing piece is critical.

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Health and Physical Education Leaders Seek Election to SHAPE America Board

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She also coordinates the Physical Education Master’s Certification Program at the University of Maryland College Park. Nilo Ramos Nilo Ramos is an assistant professor and program coordinator of physical education at Coastal Carolina University. Nilo was a preK-8 PE teacher and coach before going to higher education.

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This Is How My School Stocks Up on Kindness … and PE Equipment

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Kristi Bieri, PE teacher at Odessa Upper Elementary, shows off her school’s Amplify Kindness mural. I also let the top fundraising student take the Gopher catalog home and bring back suggestions on what PE equipment to order with the funds we received back to our school. Almost every hallway had bulletin boards using the theme.

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What I’ve Learned About Spreading Kindness in My School — on World Kindness Day and Throughout the Year

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It’s important that health and PE teachers take the lead on spreading kindness. In 2018, while working at SCAPA at Bluegrass, a School for the Creative and Performing Arts in Lexington, KY, she was named SHAPE America Southern District Middle School Physical Education Teacher of the Year. minds event., but all year.

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Tips for Gaining National Recognition for Your PETE/HETE Program

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I volunteered to assist the health education (HE) and physical education (PE) teacher preparation program coordinator. SHAPE America Webinars for CAEP Accreditation With National Recognition National Physical Education Teacher Education Standards National Standards for Initial Health Education Teacher Education.