Montessori Physical Education

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Aligning Montessori Physical Education Lessons with SHAPE America's National Standards My journey to becoming a PE teacher may not be as typical as most PE teachers. It makes sense with two parents who were teachers. Regardless of where you teach in the US, you can cross-reference what physical standards are met by the lessons.

Motor Skills

Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 31, 2025

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.

Physical Education

PLT4M

JULY 25, 2025

School districts and PE teachers often face the challenge of finding resources that are both high-quality and engaging for students of different ages, interests, and experience levels. In math, you might teach addition, then multiplication, then algebra. At the same time, the curriculum must align with national or state standards.

Motor Skills

Skillastics

APRIL 21, 2025

Lets be honest most after-school and expanded learning programs arent staffed with certified fitness trainers or PE teachers. Team-teaching an activity or rotating roles between observers and facilitators gives everyone a chance to learn by example. Encourage Peer Collaboration No one likes to feel like theyre doing it alone.

Physical Activity

PLT4M

MARCH 3, 2025

When a physical education teacher can’t be in class, whether due to illness, professional development, or personal matters, the show must go on. Well-thought-out PE sub plans not only help maintain the flow of the class but also ensure that students stay active, motivated, and safe, even in the PE teachers absence.

PE

SHAPE America

AUGUST 4, 2022

At some point, most physical education teachers have had to give up the gym for a concert, rehearsal, assembly, construction, or other school/community activity. And, although teaching PE without a gym is not ideal, it is possible. Here are some of my favorite tips for teaching physical education without a gym. It’s not unusual.

Gyms

SHAPE America

JUNE 4, 2024

When I began my teaching career in 2007, I was 22 years old. Teaching in the gym was far different from teaching in an ordinary classroom. Benefits of State Affiliate Membership As a young teacher, I decided to join SCAHPERD for the professional development opportunities. I was scared out of my mind.

Physical Education

SHAPE America

AUGUST 11, 2022

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. The heat really gets turned up as students enter the internship or student teaching phase. Running the Race.

Physical Education

Carly's P.E. Games

APRIL 14, 2019

I want to share some videos of the Dance Unit the Music teacher and I taught to our students. We have a tradition of combining our classes to teach a dance unit together the week before spring break. We always have fun, and the students learn a large variety of dances!

Dance

SHAPE America

MARCH 14, 2023

We teach at the Ancona School, a small, progressive elementary school in the Hyde Park area of Chicago’s South Side. 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.

Recreation

Aspire-Ed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Steph Donovan is a dance specialist and has been teaching dance for as long as she can remember. But she’s also a primary school teacher and understands the time pressures that come with planning, researching and resourcing an engaging creative curriculum for your pupils. Get your ticket here. Key details.

Dance

Alexandra Lemm

MARCH 18, 2020

I could NOT imagine having to handle a career at home while teaching a child, so here’s a teacher in the flesh telling you that you are doing an AMAZING job! We are trained as educators to teach for ten minutes and to have students break, talk, write, whatever, for two minutes. A dance party to their favorite song.

Teacher

Active Schools Us

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

But then in the fall this year, I started doing live virtual classes as well as teaching in – person. When we’re in-person, I end every session with five minutes of dancing with a bubble machine, and they love it. . The post Prioritizing PE Post-Pandemic: An Interview with a PE Teacher appeared first on Active Schools.

PE Teacher

The Physical Educator

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Dance is a polarizing subject in the world of physical education: some teachers love to teach it, other teachers can’t even imagine themselves teaching it. Regardless of your personal comfort level with the activity, I believe dance should be a part of every student’s physical education experience.

Dance

Arizona Health and Physical Education

APRIL 22, 2024

Do you know of an outstanding High School Physical Education Teacher? A “teacher” is an individual whose primary teaching responsibility is in Health, Physical Education or Dance. A “teacher” is an individual whose primary teaching responsibility is in Health, Physical Education or Dance.

High School

Arizona Health and Physical Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

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. So what does ‘qualified’ mean in terms of teaching adapted physical education? Well, that is just part of the story.

Physical Education

Arizona Health and Physical Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Jessica is a physical education teacher at Lewiston High School in Lewiston, Idaho teaching. strength training, dance, yoga and lifetime fitness classes. Teacher of the Year and has served SHAPE America in several capacities over the years on curriculum. certified Dance PL3Y instructor. committees, P.E.

Middle School

Gopher Sport

MAY 4, 2023

Not only can you sing it, but when you hear it, it brings you back to a place in time: a school dance, a wedding, first heartbreak or a backyard BBQ. Ten years ago, I decided that we would dance! One day an administrator walked through our gym, and I asked if we could perform our dance for him.

Dance

Human Kinetics

MAY 23, 2023

Human Kinetics (HK), the premier publisher of K-12 and higher education resources for physical education (PE), health education, adapted physical activity, and dance, acquired the online school effective March 31. By Human Kinetics, Champaign, IL The PE Central Online School is under new ownership.

Online Schooling

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Activities in physical education often teach children important classroom skills including following instructions, making decisions, problem-solving, teamwork, and self-regulation. Using rhythmic patterns to teach math concepts or language skills not only makes learning more engaging, but it also makes learning more effective.

Physical Education

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!

Coordination

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Teach students games they can play on their own during PE time. Teach and review playground safety with students , especially with playground structures such as monkey bars. Here is a tutorial we created to address this – it was shared with parents, teachers, and paraprofessionals. Monkey Bar Safety 4.

Physical Education

Gopher Sport

JULY 12, 2024

This approach increases student engagement and fosters more organized and efficient teaching for you! I am a big believer in teaching through gameplay! Find games that incorporate your objective and teach it to your students. A lot of standards include activities like dance and gymnastics, things not everyone will relate to.

PE Teacher

Open Phys Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Grade 7) Provides corrective feedback to a peer, using teacher-generated guidelines, and incorporating appropriate tone, and other communication skills. Grade 7) Provides corrective feedback to a peer, using teacher-generated guidelines, and incorporating appropriate tone, and other communication skills.

Middle School

PLT4M

OCTOBER 23, 2023

We unpack these 6 standards and how physical education teachers can utilize PLT4M to align to the Illinois learning standards. 6 ISBE Pe Standards There are 6 ISBE PE standards for physical education teachers to consider. Here is where physical education teachers can turn to trusted resources that are aligned to ISBE PE standards.

PE

PLT4M

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Roxeanne Bush, a middle school PE teacher in Illinois, describes the need for variety and choice , “Students at this level crave choice and different options. As teachers, we need to help foster that with various activities, units, and opportunities throughout the year. Below is an example lesson plan.

Middle School

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 PE teacher therefore needs to find out what is meaningful to students, and build from there. Utility argument.

Teaching

Open Phys Ed

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Identifies the rules and etiquette for physical activities/games and dance activities. Locomotor Skills: Combines locomotor skills with movement concepts in dance, fitness, and sport environments. Movement Concepts: Creates open space to create an advantage or with a specific purpose in dance, fitness, and sports activities.

Middle School

What's New in Adapted Physical Education

JUNE 8, 2021

In this episode we join them in one of their undergraduate APE classes, where they had a panel of recent APE student teachers and their mentors they worked with in the field. They go in-depth and discuss their experiences, how they navigated the pandemic and student teaching, and the keys to becoming a successful APE teacher.

Teacher

Open Phys Ed

JANUARY 15, 2024

Jumps and lands in the vertical plane using a mature pattern (3); Combines jumping and landing patterns with locomotors and manipulative skills in dance, gymnastics and small-sided practice tasks/games environments (5). force, direction, speed, pathways, extensions) in small-sided practice task/game environments, dance and gymnastics (5c).

Motor Skills

PLT4M

OCTOBER 27, 2022

PE teachers can choose from endless PE activities without equipment. First and foremost, PE activities without equipment can teach students lifelong fitness skills they can do anywhere and anytime. Many teachers will consider splitting the class into two more manageable small groups. Dance fitness is for everyone!

PE

PLT4M

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Teachers want to know exactly how to hit on SEL competencies in lesson plans. For example, teachers use mindfulness lesson plans as a way to incorporate explicit SEL activities for high school students. Let’s dive into 10 examples teachers can use in their classrooms! Social Emotional Learning wheel.

High School

Open Phys Ed

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Manipulative Skills: Refines manipulative skills to improve performance in dance, fitness, and sport activities. Movement Concepts: Creates open space to create an advantage or with a specific purpose in dance, fitness, and sports activities.

Middle School

Gopher Sport

JANUARY 3, 2024

Directions for Level 1: “Feeling Great or Whoa” The teacher states the name of a food. Objective: To allow for movement that develops different locomotor skills and spatial awareness, and to help students understand the food groups and proper nutrition. This activity can be done in the classroom or the gym.)

Nutrition

PLT4M

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Teacher wellness activities should be more than one-off professional development days. We explore fitness-based staff wellness ideas for teachers to promote physical and mental health. . The Importance of Staff Wellness Ideas For Teachers Teachers spend most of their days focusing on others.

Fitness

Open Phys Ed

MAY 8, 2023

Manipulative Skills: (Grades 9-12) Demonstrates competency and/or refines activity-specific movement skills in two or more lifetime activities.

High School

PLT4M

AUGUST 9, 2024

This approach aims to teach students the value of regular exercise and how to design routines that suit their individual needs and goals. PE teacher Sue Mathewson displays PLT4M curriculum options on a smart board at Hammond Central High School. Ready to WOW your Admins?

Fitness