Montessori Physical Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

The game is played on a grid that can be made by making lines in the ground or using the court lines of a gym. If the game had been indeed invented around the time of the Majapahit Kingdom, it would have made sense that it had started as a military exercise because this was a time of conflict. This will save you a lot of setup time.

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SHAPE America

AUGUST 4, 2022

Are you losing your gym space for a class period, a day, a week or longer? 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. No Problem!

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SHAPE America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

LESSONS FROM HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATORS We need health and physical education (HPE) teachers to flood classrooms at all levels with ideas and inspiration. HPE teachers already have it figured out! The gym is not the only place where students can move, interact and learn by doing.

Physical Activity

Active Schools Us

JANUARY 11, 2023

5 Ways Teachers Can Support Workday Wellness While Improving their Practice and the School Culture . Do this to the extent that your own practices and methods are improved as a teacher within your content area but allow yourself the breaks necessary to keep your focus during work times. By: Lisa Paulson. Kristian Ellingson.

Education

Active Schools Us

JUNE 6, 2024

Teachers can use adversity as an opportunity to help students get better, grow stronger, change, and learn. My goal is for this exercise to help students in the future when they need a moment of inspiration. This quote is on a poster leading into my gym. I want students to feel that they can overcome anything! I can do this!

Teaching

Mr. Kirsch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

This idea is from Jon Peterson, PE Teacher Robert Frost Elementary Do not run into one another.

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Physical Education Update

JANUARY 18, 2023

When we think of physical education classes, we automatically envision students exercising in a gym. However, the reality is that many teachers don’t have a gymnasium in which to work. That leaves them with the challenge of finding activities that students can perform in their classroom.

Physical Education

Heartzones

JUNE 13, 2023

Reach Outside of the 4 Walls of the Gym During my 20 year career as a PE teacher in Vinton, Iowa, my school would hold an open house the first few weeks of school. Parents and their children would go from class to class to hear from the teachers about what they could expect their children to be learning in the coming year.

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Mr. Kirsch

MARCH 22, 2024

E16) Time: 18-25 minutes Organization: Place mats for boundaries between ‘batting cages’ facing a long wall for more space to use and hit into (dependent on your gym size). RPS if there is a tie at home This idea is from Matt Eichel, a Physical Education Teacher at St. E25), Fielding/Catching a batted ball (S1.E16) Ignatius School.

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Physical Education Ideas

JUNE 15, 2019

When it comes to exercise, this is all language you probably don’t need to tell your students. In a world where technology is taking over and “Fortniting” is more popular than bike riding, it is important we all send the same consistent message about the importance of exercise to our students. How much exercise do children need?

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Heartzones

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

My muscle doesn’t know the difference if I’m digging in the yard, carrying heavy shopping bags, or lifting a dumbbell.” ( Source & Study ) What is going on inside the body during strength exercises? Notice the elastic bands in the partner drills, that provide leg resistance exercise, while also providing cardio conditioning.

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Montessori Physical Education

AUGUST 27, 2023

What is the first thing a physical education teacher should do at the beginning of the year? Talk to your classroom teachers. I am a physical education teacher and I have my own classroom, whether it be the gym or outside.” Classrooms are typically much smaller than gym settings, indoor or outdoor.

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PLT4M

APRIL 22, 2024

Instead, PE teachers can introduce basic gymnastics skills in just about any gymnasium or space. From here, teachers can create stations where students can spread out into smaller groups and practice different types of exercises. Each exercise has written and video instruction.

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Gopher Sport

JULY 26, 2024

Do your students ever walk into your gym and feel at peace? As physical educators, I believe that we can make a big difference in the gym, teaching peace and love through our everyday practices. We all want to be seen as “precious” in our teacher’s eyes. Do the students in your class accept others as they are?

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PLT4M

OCTOBER 27, 2022

PE teachers can choose from endless PE activities without equipment. Outside of school, many students will not have access to equipment for exercise. By teaching PE activities without equipment, students can learn different exercise and workout routines that they can do at home, outside, at a park, or anywhere there is space.

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Montessori Physical Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The same can be said for students who decide they are not athletic and exercise is not for them. They don’t need exercise because their focus is on the cerebral. Loads of research show that exercise is good for cognition. Students who dislike gym are typically less physically gifted than some of their counterparts.

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PLT4M

AUGUST 18, 2022

Young people see yoga as a viable form of physical exercise but aren’t always sure where to start. This could be at home or a local gym or studio. ’ PLT4M yoga teacher Lulu Emmons describes why school settings are one of the best places to start with yoga, “School is about exploration and learning, and so is yoga!

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

AUGUST 27, 2024

In addition, the strategies mentioned here are simple suggestions and examples of strategies myself or teachers I have worked with have used. In a game setting, individuals with ASD may struggle with switching between tasks (offense to defense and vice versa) and understanding social cues from teammates and the teacher.

Physical Education

Aspire-Ed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The moves, exercises and activities that make up gymnastics help children to understand the way their bodies move, and how these movements can be coordinated and controlled. Gymnasts exercise body and mind. And it’s not just scary for the children learning, gymnastics can be scary for the teacher delivering the lesson.

Primary School

Heartzones

JULY 10, 2023

It is my belief we must create a state-of-the-art physical education environment emphasizing the use of Heart Zones’ heart rate sensors that produce accountability for both the students and the teachers. Show me the truth in individualizing exercise for our students and athletes. Show me your data.

Physical Education

Gopher Sport

APRIL 10, 2024

So impactful, that Topeka School District decided to create a whole day of Professional Development and purchase BlazePod for each elementary Physical Education teacher in the district. They literally enter the gym asking me if we are going to use them.” - Trent Suzuki 2022 SHAPE America Western District PE TOY See BlazePod in Action!

Motivation

The Sporting

MARCH 24, 2023

Kelsey believes that low-impact exercises are very helpful for your body, and she shares plenty of yummy healthy recipes, useful workout ideas and updates from her life journey. With over a million followers, he owns a gym and has produced his own nutrient supplements and merchandise. Instagram: @kelseywells 6. Alexia Clark : 2.3m

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PE with Palos

JULY 28, 2022

CAPE , Adapted Physical Education Specialist The Zone Cannon Launchers As an itinerant Adapted Physical Education teacher, I love equipment that is durable and can serve many functions. Due to the light weight of the ball, this is not for bowling alleys, but rather for use with pins in the gym. By Danielle Musser, M.S.,

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Heartzones

MARCH 2, 2022

Imagine a new direction in physical education… Imagine having individual exercise data that was immediately sent to student records, the student, and the parents, each day from physical education classes. We cannot recommend exercise prescriptions to “groups” of individuals. Heart Zones Inc. Lesson Design: Documenting Results.

Physical Education

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 18, 2022

There are tons and tons of these activities and every teacher can put their own spin on them to make them successful for their students. I have borrowed many such activities from lots of great teachers. Either to the teacher or another student (examples below) RED- What’s the best thing you’ve learned today? 2 Person Tag.

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PLT4M

MARCH 3, 2023

” But past just physical activity , students need to learn the essential skills and strategies to exercise. But with virtual PE, students need a simple way to exercise with the limited equipment they have access to at home or no equipment at all. A PLT4M activity dashboard that gives PE teacher insights on activity.

PE

Gopher Sport

JULY 15, 2024

STEM Sports has been a game changer for many PE programs across the country, as the curriculum fosters physical literacy with lessons designed for the physically active learner by taking students out of the traditional classroom setting and into the gym or on to the field.

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School Yard

MARCH 19, 2019

Teachers know, however, that activities reinforcing focus and mindfulness have been useful and beneficial for students for many years. Students and teachers alike use concepts relating to mindfulness to make education more effective and help students learn to manage emotions and practice self-management. Stress is hard on the body.

Physical Education

Heartzones

MARCH 8, 2022

I also realized that I was the one that prescribed the exercise that he was doing. What was I doing as a teacher? The teacher selects various career heart rate printouts, enlarges them, then places them on a wall in the gym. our community members were hung on the walls of my gym in Grundy Center, Iowa. And so on.

Physical Education

PLT4M

JUNE 13, 2023

Functional fitness is any exercise or workout that improves your body’s natural movement patterns. This type of exercise emphasizes functional movements that can be used in everyday life. Functional fitness is any type of exercise or workout that translates to the demands of everyday activities.

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Arizona Health and Physical Education

JULY 21, 2023

Hard to believe that a short 6 or 8 weeks ago, we were counting down to the END of the school year, and now here we are getting ready for another round of “meet the teacher” night! If you have a bulletin board in your gym or locker room, if you’ve used signs during a fitness activity or game, if you’ve used a scoreboard, you’ve used visuals.

Physical Education

PLT4M

JUNE 7, 2022

Sean Fullerton is a former secondary physical education teacher and current Ph.D. student at the University of New Mexico in the Health, Exercise, and Sports Science Department. Teachers can fall into the trap of believing certain students don’t have the disposition for physical activity or exercise, which is far from the truth.

Motivation

The Healthy Teacher

JUNE 6, 2023

For another fun way to practice refusal skills, check out these awesome ideas by 2022 Health Teacher of the Year, Jessica Matheson: Using Dice in the Health Class PSA Hunt & Share Thanks to social media, my students are finding new public service announcements all of the time, and this is a great chance for them to share with the class.

Health

PLT4M

JUNE 15, 2023

Instead, healthy active choices will revolve around working out at home, the fitness center or gym, and beyond. A student listens as a teacher talks about social emotional learning during a yoga lesson in physical education class. Because as students grow into older adults, sports will not always be a fitness option.

Physical Education

Elementary PE Teacher

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Some teachers aren’t blessed with a gymnasium and have to hold their classes in classrooms, lunchrooms or any open space they can find. To assist these teachers, below are activities that would likely work in small spaces. Continue this routine until all students have moved through the exercise stations one or two times each.

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PLT4M

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

(Source: Physical Activity Alliance ) While physical education teachers advocate for improving physical fitness and the PE curriculum’s important role, many still see PE as a “gym class” where teachers roll out the ball and let kids do whatever they want. Statistics about the current state of child wellness.

Physical Education

The Sporting

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Traditional and modern Muay Thai gyms alike allow anyone to spar with anyone else. That doesn't, however, imply that the gym is in complete anarchy and no one has a clue what's going on. Once more, amateurs aren't out to murder each other; they're just in it for exercise, skill development and entertainment.

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