Gopher Sport

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

By: Gopher Community Physical Education teacher Heather Burd is not just an educator; she’s an example of resilience, compassion, and empowerment. It’s something I’ve faced every day of my life, from being unable to walk until age two, to figuring out how to play sports in elementary school with only one good hand.

PE Teacher

Better Coaching

DECEMBER 24, 2024

More, Younger Youth sports occupy a special place in American culture, shaping childrens character, health, and social lives. Across the United States, an increasing number of parents and coachesoften with good intentionsseek to introduce sports to children at younger and younger ages and with greater intensity than ever before.

Sports

PLT4M

JUNE 19, 2025

Some districts lower graduation requirements, citing sports or outside activities as enough. PE teachers can’t do it alone. School leaders—including PE teachers, curriculum directors, principals, and counselors—must work together to build a program that reflects the needs of today’s students. From the 2024 U.S

High School

Gopher Sport

JANUARY 15, 2025

Its simplicity allows for easy adaptation to different age groups and skill levels, making it an excellent tool for PE teachers looking to diversify their curriculum. These creative adaptations make Boardball an invaluable tool for PE classes, offering endless opportunities for fun and skill-building across various sports and activities.

Fitness

Gopher Sport

JULY 16, 2025

At Gopher Sport, our mission is simple! We help PE teachers and coaches make a difference by providing the best equipment to encourage healthy, active lifestyles. But don’t just take our word for it, hear directly from PE teachers across the country about why Gopher is their first choice. That’s more than we asked for.

PE Teacher

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

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. Motor skills, fitness education, social-emotional learning, sport skills, and personal wellness all come into play.

Motor Skills

Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 31, 2025

This is because physical education teachers are educators. This leads to an important question that needs to be addressed by physical education teachers when planning a curriculum , What curriculum is worth planning in the time available? Sport Education. A season of sport. That means, the 'business' is student learning.

Physical Education

Arizona Health and Physical Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

While at ASDB, he helped to organize and develop the first ever Adapted Sports Program for sensory impaired, multi-disabled students. The program included opportunities in adapted sport organizations such as the Special Olympics, Disabled Sports USA and USABA.

Physical Education

PLT4M

AUGUST 1, 2025

Schools are moving beyond traditional team sports to provide more choice, variety, and accessibility. With PLT4M, teachers have a clear roadmap to follow. Sample Lesson From PLT4M Walk Fit The PLT4M Walk Fit program was developed with support from veteran PE teacher Christi Meyer. Yes, PLT4M has a full slate of PE curriculum.

Fitness

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. Fun Soccer Games For Elementary PE Soccer is one of the most popular sports around the world, and many students may have already experienced playing outside of school.

Elementary

Montessori Physical Education

JULY 6, 2025

As the kids came up to get a small memento and hug their teachers for the last time, little bits of information about them were shared with the class. When they got to the career question, to my complete shock, they said Marshall wanted to be a gym teacher. My first reaction in my head was, "You don’t want to be a PE teacher."

PE Teacher

Lampe

JUNE 3, 2025

After completing my studies at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences many years ago, I began working as a physical education (PE) teacher in Norwegian elementary schools. Over the past 25 years, Ive also had the chance to teach a wide range of other subjectslanguage, mathematics, science, and music.

Elementary School

Montessori Physical Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Whenever I research traditional Indigenous sports, I'm always looking for the story's origins and what the sport might reflect of the culture that invented the game. Many games and sports across the world originated as some sort of military training, so this game might be a remnant of a time a more martial culture of the past.

Gyms

SHAPE America

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As American society and schools experience growing diversity and interconnectedness, our responsibilities as teachers must embrace pedagogical approaches that nurture and celebrate diversity, inclusion, and empathy.

Physical Education

SHAPE America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

If you ask most elementary students what their favorite subjects are, the most common answers are usually physical education and recess. Elementary students get the majority of their movement during the school day in physical education (PE) and recess. HPE teachers already have it figured out!

Physical Activity

SHAPE America

MAY 23, 2023

As an elementary physical education teacher in the Bronx, NY, I’m always looking for ways to stretch my PE budget and introduce my students to new physical activities. Open, I told some other New York City physical education teachers in a Facebook group. One of the teachers was really excited about the information about the U.S.

Physical Education

SHAPE America

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

There are three main differences between the updated curriculum and the previous one: The lacrosse curriculum has been expanded to provide resources for teachers at a greater number of grade levels. Using the Lacrosse Lesson Plans. First, look at the lesson plans as organized, outlined opportunities.

Physical Education

SHAPE America

JUNE 8, 2022

Growing up, I really had no idea that there were inequities when it came to girls and boys sports. Here are just a few of the differences that were firmly in place while I was growing up: Organized sports for boys (Little League, CYO, etc.) This was my first opportunity to participate in an organized sport.

Elementary

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. We found them in the fifth and sixth grade teachers, who happened to be nature lovers (though not anglers). We needed teacher chaperones, ones who embrace the trip’s laissez faire spirit.

Recreation

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

Heartzones

MARCH 25, 2024

” ~ Bennett Ranch Elementary School (BRES) Administrator What was your first experience with Physical Education technology? Bennett Ranch Elementary generously was loaned the Heart Zones’ sensors during the 2019/20 school year. In 2016, he was named Secondary Teacher of the Year by SHAPE Colorado.

Elementary

Carly's P.E. Games

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

My goal is to MAXIMIZE our time together with lots of movement, exercise, sports and games. Sports Skills - We learn about a different sport skill and/or physical activity each week. Sports Skills - We learn about a different sport skill and/or physical activity each week. Click here to watch a short video.

Schooling

Carly's P.E. Games

AUGUST 24, 2018

My name is Carly Glanzman, and I've been teaching Elementary P.E. Physical Education), and a minor in Elementary Education. YOUTH SPORTS Your child will receive a Get Sweaty calendar soon. For KHPS sports opportunities, please visit this website: [link] Your P.E. teacher, Mrs. Glanzman since 2005.

Schooling

Heartzones

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Heart Rate & Resistance Training Re-Imagined For Physical Education & Sport “Lifting any weight that increases resistance on your muscles is the key. During strength training in sports and in physical education class, how can one measure the progress of our most vital muscle? We live in a high tech world.

Physical Education

S&S

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Tired of the same old sports games? These five games provide a twist to classic sports that will keep kids active and engaged while having fun!

Recreation

Gopher Sport

JULY 8, 2024

An Olympic year is always a special time for an elementary PE teacher. While there are certainly many events that a teacher can draw inspiration from, I am particularly biased to the original events, athletics, swimming, and chariot races! What sport or event do the students believe should or should not be an Olympic sport?

PE Teacher

Gopher Sport

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In a recent survey of elementary teachers, it was found that most start off the school year with some form of rules/procedures coupled with games of low organization (fun, teamwork, cooperation). Many teachers focus on the development of FMS and movement competence to support participation in sports.

Cardiovascular

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Ask most elementary students what their favorite school activity is, and they will most likely respond “RECESS”! Here is a tutorial we created to address this – it was shared with parents, teachers, and paraprofessionals. We shared these activities with classroom teachers and paraprofessionals as well. Monkey Bar Safety 4.

Physical Education

Physical Education Ideas

MAY 2, 2023

Furthermore, physical education helps students to improve their coordination, balance, and strength, which is essential for participating in sports and other physical activities and promotes life-long physical learning. This is where Physical Education teachers are vital.

Physical Education

Arizona Health and Physical Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The kids at Irene Lopez Elementary School had a ball on Thursday, and students at over 600 other schools throughout Arizona will soon follow suit thanks to a new partnership between the Arizona Coyotes and Equality Health. Those educators then incorporate that very curriculum into their P.E. programs, much to the excitement of the students.

Elementary School

Arizona Health and Physical Education

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The individual providing the adapted physical education should collaborate with the occupational therapist, the physical therapist, the special education teacher, parents and/or the physical education teacher to meet the child’s needs related to: ● health and safety, including specific medical needs ● modifications of equipment or the environment.

Physical Education

PLT4M

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Physical education teachers have long tried to leave the term and memories of “gym class” behind them and spotlight their quality physical education programs. It empowers elementary school, middle school, and high school students to build up a wide variety of tools to live healthy lifestyles. Piekarz-Porter, et al.

Physical Education

Montessori Physical Education

MAY 14, 2023

And my mom knows something about perseverance, having been a Montessori toddler teacher for over thirty years. After observing the fantastic benefits of the Montessori philosophy on her own son, she would continue that legacy as a teacher at the school. However, that is precisely what happened. That is quite a legacy.

Elementary School

PLT4M

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Even though it is widely accepted that 60 minutes a day of physical activity helps elementary school students all the way through high school students, only one-quarter of this group is actually getting the recommended amount of physical activity. . At the elementary school level, recess used to be upwards of 30 min – 60 minutes a day.

Academics

PLT4M

AUGUST 22, 2023

Long story short, elementary through high school students are struggling. And again, we must reiterate that the health benefits of physical education are not limited to only our very young people in elementary schools. This is the largest average score decline in reading since 1990 and the first-ever score decline in mathematics.

Physical Education

PLT4M

APRIL 22, 2024

Students can practice and develop body control, balance, mobility, strength, and more through the fun and exciting sport of gymnastics. Instead, PE teachers can introduce basic gymnastics skills in just about any gymnasium or space. Teachers can pair and match different drills depending on total class time.

PE Teacher