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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. Family involvement fills the gaps.

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

SHAPE America

dance, yoga, aerobics) that meet the need for self-expression. It might look like dancing in your room, walking the dog, shooting hoops with friends, riding a bike, or playing tag at recess. Students move in ways they enjoy, explore their strengths, and reinforce skills that transfer to recess, sports and recreational life.

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

SHAPE America

When I started teaching, I had heard a little bit about the South Carolina Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (SCAHPERD), but at the time had no idea how this association would help me grow personally and professionally, transforming me into the educator I am today.

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

SHAPE America

What I’ve learned from these conversations is that even though our PETE programs may be different, our students are almost all struggling with the same issue — their professional transition from students to teachers. We, as teachers, are inherently placed in a position to exert influence and enact. Running the Race. Change is hard.

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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. Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance , August, 29-32. Instructional time. Mosston, M.

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What does the Adapted Physical Education teacher really do?

Arizona Health and Physical Education

If you are a certified physical education teacher, chances are you were required to take one 3-credit class in working with students with disabilities in your physical education classes. Some districts have one adapted physical education teacher who provides consultation services for the entire district.

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School sport participation

Learning Through Sport

While recreation sport in curriculum time didn't feature in any of the schools I worked in, when I started my teaching career in the late 1980s, in many jurisdictions school sport was still in curriculum time. In Year 12, a new principal decided to stop this program so more time could go ito academics.

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