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Fitness Through Play: How to Reimagine Physical Education for Lifelong Wellness

SHAPE America

Traditional approaches in physical education can lack joy, choice and relevance to students lives. The negative association with fitness can affect students perception of physical activity and the value of physical education. Is physical education an important class for kids to take? Why or why not?

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Fishin’ for Change: Combining Physical Education and Outdoor Recreation

SHAPE America

Each year, our school’s Gone Fishin’ trip combines physical education with outdoor recreation. Whether the activity is basketball or fencing, dance or “circus arts,” it generally has well-defined rules, a time-driven structure, and adults to studiously facilitate.

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How Professional Associations Have Made Me a Better Health and Physical Education Teacher and Leader

SHAPE America

Young educators are often deterred from joining professional organizations because they can be viewed as expensive or a waste of time to someone who is already stretched thin, trying to put their best efforts into their classroom each day. I was eager to learn from the best and brightest in the field of health and physical education.

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5 Tips for Moving Your Career Forward as a Health and Physical Education Teacher

SHAPE America

At one such lunch with Mary Henninger, professor in the PETE program at Illinois State University, we began jotting down notes on a napkin — strategies for launching a successful career as a health and physical education teacher. You’ll find a broad network of health and physical education professionals on Twitter.

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Active Schools – 2024 Highlights

Active Schools Us

They also published an open-access article in JOPERD titled Promoting an Active School: Tools, Resources, & Recognition, published in the Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance. Brian Dauenhauer and his team provided expertise that amplified our impact.

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Teaching physical education for effective learning

Learning Through Sport

The goal of physical education teaching is student learning and it is the teacher who has the responsibility for directing the learning through their curriculum (program design), pedagogy and assessment decision-making. Physial education teaching is therefore a goal directed activity.

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Meaningful physical education programs and a 'main theme' curriculum model

Learning Through Sport

In my last post here , I considered what it means to teach physical education for effective learning. In this blog, I connect back to an idea I have discussed before in relation to games based teaching here , that is making a physical education program meaningful. This is because physical education teachers are educators.