Gopher Sport

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When it comes to introducing young players to the game of hockey, safety and performance are top priorities for teachers and coaches. Solo Skill Practice Stickhandling Drills : Have students practice weaving the puck or ball through cones (or any other obstacles) to improve their hand-eye coordination and stickhandling skills.

Teaching

Better Coaching

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Physical Growth and Maturation From infancy to adolescence, children undergo substantial changes in skeletal structure, muscular strength, cardiorespiratory capacity, and coordination. Prior to puberty, growth patterns can be erratic.

Sports

Gopher Sport

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

I have had the privilege of leading workshops at the **NYSAHPERD Conference**, where I guided PE teachers in implementing bowling units effectively. But more importantly, Ive seen how bowling can bring people togetherbetween a father and son, between teammates, between a PE teacher and their students.

PE

Arizona Health and Physical Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The K-sixth physical education teacher at Faith Mather Sossaman Elementary School is devoted to making sure students exercise their bodies along with their brains. Her devotion paid off when she earned an honorable mention at the Arizona Educational Foundation’s 2025 Teacher of the Year Awards in October.

Education

PLT4M

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

As a popular lifetime physical activity, bowling supports a well-rounded approach to physical literacy by improving coordination, balance, and accuracy while reinforcing fundamental movement skills. Introducing different challenges like bowling for prizes or different point systems. PreK-2: 1.2.6 PreK-2: 1.2.9

Teaching

Relentless School Nurse

JUNE 18, 2025

I wasn’t trained as a therapist, but I’ve become a bridge, connecting students with the limited mental health resources we have, coordinating with families, following up, checking in. I created care plans, trained teachers, managed emergencies, and made sure students could safely participate in school life. I know I’m not alone.

Schooling

PLT4M

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Jump rope activities for elementary PE are more than just a way to get kids movingthey help students develop essential motor skills, rhythm, timing, and coordination. PE teacher and K-5 content expert Mike Graham emphasizes the importance of key teaching cues when working with young learners.

Elementary

Gopher Sport

MARCH 3, 2025

This is a lot of set up but it completely worth it if you have the support from Administration and teachers. I had to leave the pins and lights set up for several days which had to be coordinated with our Extended Day program. Give yourself time to set up.

PE

PLT4M

JANUARY 29, 2025

Throwing and catching games for elementary PE are more than just fun activitiesthey help students develop essential motor skills, coordination, and spatial awareness. PE teachers dont need specialized gearjust a few basic essentials can create engaging and effective activities for all grade levels. Grades 3-5: 3.5.2

Elementary

PLT4M

MAY 9, 2025

Whether PE teachers want a quick game for an instant activity or fun variations to fill an entire PE class, there are countless options to choose from. Physical education teachers can easily adapt tag games to work indoors or outside, offering flexibility based on available space.

Elementary

PLT4M

MAY 12, 2025

From there, as students skill levels progress, PE teachers can introduce a wide variety of invasion-style games that build on these foundational skills in fun and engaging ways. Ring Raiders A large-group game focused on stealing and protecting rings, promoting both offensive and defensive strategies while emphasizing team coordination.

Elementary

Relentless School Nurse

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

This coordinated effort presents an unprecedented threat to the future of federal education policy and funding in our country. President Trump’s campaign promise to close the Department is now being echoed in Congress, with Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie’s reintroduction of H.R. Education is a fundamental right.

Education

PLT4M

JANUARY 31, 2025

Basketball games for elementary PE are more than just fun activitiesthey help students develop essential motor skills, coordination, and spatial awareness. Fun and engaging activities that emphasize movement, ball control, and coordination help students develop foundational skills while keeping them active and engaged.

Elementary

PLT4M

MARCH 18, 2025

Soccer games for elementary PE are more than just fun activitiesthey help students develop essential motor skills, coordination, and spatial awareness. Physical education teachers can modify soccer games to work inside the gym or outdoors, allowing for flexibility depending on the space available. Download Now!

Elementary

Relentless School Nurse

APRIL 15, 2025

We manage chronic conditions like asthma and diabetes, navigate the surge in student mental health needs, coordinate care with families and outside providers, and respond to public health crisesfrom RSV outbreaks to COVID-19. Build Relationships: Collaborate with teachers, families, administrators, and community partners.

Schooling

Montessori Physical Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Watching the coordinated movements of the offense and defense made me think that this game would have been an excellent training tool for the military. The defenders must move together in a coordinated pattern. If you have basketball teams, this game is excellent for working on trapping concepts for defense.

Gyms

SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

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.

Physical Education

SHAPE America

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Gaining National Recognition status for your physical education teacher education (PETE) and/or health education teacher education (HETE) program begins with accreditation, which is a review of the quality of your educator preparation program(s). In addition, the teacher education program is reviewed as a whole, not by content area.

Assessment

SHAPE America

OCTOBER 12, 2023

KYSHAPE provides daily slides with prompts, as well as activities and social media posts for each daily theme that administrators, health and physical educators, and other classroom teachers can use. As a health and physical education teacher, I teach kindness as part of my curriculum. The impact of health. minds event., but all year.

Schooling

SHAPE America

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

As a physical education teacher, I have been doing school fundraisers for 23 years. My PE equipment closet is now busting at the seams, so I’ve started gifting classroom teachers with a portion of the funds I get back. They are detailed and ready for a teacher to use — and I am blown away with what they do for my school community.

PE

SHAPE America

APRIL 20, 2023

Here are some tips to help you get started: For Teachers: Advocate for more outdoor recess and field days. Reach out to your local school’s physical education teacher for more information and opportunities. He is currently the coordinator of Physical Education and Health Education for Manassas City Public School in Manassas, VA.

Physical Activity

SHAPE America

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Several past presidents, the association’s executive director and secretary (a former HPE teacher and administrator) made more than 50 contacts speaking to school personnel from across the state. This task was assigned to the association secretary and a team of state, district and national teachers of the year.

Physical Education

SHAPE America

APRIL 18, 2023

From these teachers and coaches, students learn just how important physical activity is for physical, mental, and social-emotional health. Be mindful that soccer is lower-body dominant for object control and tennis is upper-body dominant, so including eye-foot and eye-hand coordination helps to develop skills across sports.

Motor Skills

Relentless School Nurse

AUGUST 6, 2022

A comprehensive approach to school safety actively engages students, teachers and parents, identifies high-risk individuals using threat assessment techniques, and instructs teachers and administrators to refer these students to mental health services. School safety is not just a physical challenge, but a psychological one too.

Schooling

Relentless School Nurse

OCTOBER 16, 2024

We discuss how they coordinate with parents, teachers, and healthcare providers to address significant issues such as mental health, chronic illnesses, and the influence of social media on student well-being. In Part One , we explore the core responsibilities of school nurses and how they navigate the complexities of student care.

Schooling

Relentless School Nurse

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Coordination of Care: We work closely with parents to ensure that the school has up-to-date health forms, prescriptions, and necessary equipment to manage the student’s health condition. Our training includes handling emergencies related to chronic conditions, such as asthma attacks, allergic reactions, or seizures.

Conditioning

Arizona Health and Physical Education

AUGUST 6, 2024

A teacher from the Queen Creek Unified School District was given an honorable mention in the Arizona Educational Foundation’s 2025 Teacher of the Year Awards. Lara Cox, a K-sixth physical education teacher at Faith Mather Sossaman Elementary School, will be honored at the Arizona Teacher of the Year Awards ceremony on Oct.

Teacher

PE Scholar

APRIL 22, 2025

Understanding Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) or dyspraxia for PE teachers and adaptive teaching strategies.

Coordination

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. the intent of task itself and the environment that the learner works in), other than teacher instructions. Or is it not?

Physical Education

Relentless School Nurse

AUGUST 9, 2023

Furthermore, coordinating with a school nurse across multiple schools can introduce communication challenges, emphasizing the need for efficient communication systems. Health Advocacy: School nurses advocate for students’ health needs within the school setting and collaborate with parents, teachers, and healthcare professionals.

Schooling

SHAPE America

JUNE 2, 2022

My PE teacher took enough personal interest in me to introduce me to the girls basketball coach, telling him that I should go out for the team. I asked a teacher to help me write a letter to the Board of Education. So, I started begging teachers to volunteer to coach a club team. I didn’t return for the next practice.

High School

Gopher Sport

JANUARY 16, 2023

When I became a health and physical education (HPE) coordinator, we used electronic documents and eventually created a spreadsheet with equipment inventory data for all of the schools in our district. This is an amazing free tool that teachers and HPE coordinators probably didn’t know existed. Gopher has created exactly that!

PE

Carly's P.E. Games

MAY 27, 2020

Coordinating poly spot and ball for bowling. Please check out my other links: My Teachers Pay Teachers Store: [link] My Webpage: [link] My Youtube Channel: [link] My Pinterest Page: [link] Student playing defense during the game Battleship. Students playing defense during the game Battleship. Playing Guard the Castle.

Coordination

The Everlearner

JULY 24, 2024

It will be one of those that, I hope, will really make PE teachers go, “Oh, I see!” Part 1 The origin of muscle tissue Part 2 Muscle tissue structure and function Part 3 Muscle contractions and coordination Part 4 Muscle tissue advanced - Muscle tissue as a “smart device” ( this post )

PE Teacher

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As knowledge of the impact of motor coordination on children’s cognition and academic achievement evolves, physical educators are increasingly integrating rhythmic coordinative movement into their daily classroom activities to prime the brain for learning. You are experienced teachers. 2019 ; Kolovelonis & Goudas, 2023 ).

Physical Education

The Everlearner

JULY 17, 2024

Dear PE teacher, Now that we have got the nature of muscle tissue and the microscopic anatomy of it in the bag, we can start to address some of the classic topic applications.

PE Teacher

Gopher Sport

JUNE 6, 2023

Throughout my career as a physical education teacher, I have grown a strong appreciation for juggling scarves ! Inexpensive, portable, simple to use, easy to store – scarves should be in every PE teacher’s repertoire, especially towards the end of year when you find yourself teaching somewhere other than your gym! All while having fun!

Coordination