SHAPE America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The gym is not the only place where students can move, interact and learn by doing. We need classrooms to be more active and engaging like the gym! As the American College of Sports Medicine puts it, Exercise is Medicine. Teach students how to learn and to love learning. Active and healthy students are better learners.

Physical Activity

Active Schools Us

JUNE 6, 2024

It teaches us valuable lessons, builds character, and can help us reach our highest potential. Adversity teaches us valuable lessons about ourselves, the power of endurance, and the importance of occasional discomfort. My goal is for this exercise to help students in the future when they need a moment of inspiration.

Teaching

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

SHAPE America

MAY 24, 2022

While the boys classes had a full array of sports and other activities, girls classes were mainly focused on exercise, marching, jumping rope, and being graded on the cleanliness and color of your sneakers and gym uniforms! There, she was the founder of the Center for Exercise and Aging. Susan Kaplowitz Susan Kaplowitz, Ed.D.,

Coaching

Aspire-Ed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Here we break down that impact and take a closer look at why gymnastics is an essential sport to teach in primary school. Teaching gymnastics develops key physical skills. Which leads us on to our next point… Teaching gymnastics is in line with the national curriculum.

Primary School

Arizona Health and Physical Education

AUGUST 27, 2024

In addition, some students with ASD have a heightened response to sensory input (smells, sound, touch) and can become overwhelmed by too much noise or visual stimuli (think 25 basketballs all hitting the gym floor or being thrown around the room at once). These ideas are not just mine.

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. For me, as the Physical Education teacher, I would put all the different types of balls in the middle of the gym. It was as if time had stood still for fifty years.

Gyms

Active Schools Us

JANUARY 11, 2023

One way to seek your own professional development is to engage with other highly effective teachers who you feel have something to offer your perspective and general strategies for teaching. While there, see if there is anything you can help with that requires physical movement.

Education

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. As my students come to the gym, the first thing they see are the two signs below! Who knows who they could inspire?!

Physical Education

The Sporting

JULY 10, 2023

Life events such as illness, injury, relocation, new jobs, pregnancy and parenting can all disrupt a persons ability to exercise regularly. So how can we ensure that no matter what happens outside of the gym or fitness class environment, our clients view exercise as a top priority? Be there, listen, try not to be judgemental.”

Gyms

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?

Exercise

Physical Education Update

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Students log in miles in school gyms and playgrounds, to keep Paul company. It’s a great way to teach students about other places, while developing a fitness habit. They read his online journal and watch the videos that he films as he runs.

Endurance

Montessori Physical Education

AUGUST 27, 2023

I am a physical education teacher and I have my own classroom, whether it be the gym or outside.” We have our own goals and objectives, such as teaching gross and fine motor movement and Social and Emotional skills. Classrooms are typically much smaller than gym settings, indoor or outdoor. Talk to your classroom teachers.

PE

Gopher Sport

AUGUST 14, 2023

Plus, with their vibrant colors and customizable banners, these pits will add a pop of excitement to any gym or playground. FlipFrenzy Set is a game that combines speed, strategy, and exercise for an electrifying PE session. FlipIt Reversible Whiteboards Flip the script on traditional teaching aids!

Gyms

PLT4M

AUGUST 18, 2022

Young people see yoga as a viable form of physical exercise but aren’t always sure where to start. Teaching yoga in physical education class allows all students to safely explore yoga for the first time. This could be at home or a local gym or studio. ” 20 Popular Yoga Poses For Students. Download Now!

High School

Gopher Sport

MAY 7, 2024

Use adversity as an opportunity to get better, grow stronger, to change, to heal, to learn, to teach. It teaches us valuable lessons, builds character, and can help us reach our highest potential. Adversity teaches us valuable lessons about ourselves, the importance of discomfort, and the power of endurance.

Teaching

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.

PE

The Sporting

APRIL 5, 2024

When I started going to the gym, I was overweight, had incredibly low self-confidence and felt pretty miserable. I was very very self-conscious when I first started going to the gym. I had no knowledge of the gym at all. How do you help teach moderation to your clients? I was about five stone heavier than I am now.

Motivation

The Sporting

MARCH 19, 2023

A History of Yoga - The abridged version Yoga is one of the most popular forms of physical and mental exercise in modern life. Where once humans pounded the streets on long runs as their primary form of exercise, you are now far more likely to find them in various poses in a yoga class. These slowly became westernized.

Exercise

PLT4M

OCTOBER 27, 2022

First and foremost, PE activities without equipment can teach students lifelong fitness skills they can do anywhere and anytime. Outside of school, many students will not have access to equipment for exercise. 3) Yoga Often students will want to explore different types of fitness and exercise. Free Fitness Lessons For P.E.

PE

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. Werner hosts various workshops to teach yoga moves.

Fitness

Gopher Sport

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Take a look at the video below to see which exercises are paired with the symbols on the dice dreidel! As students roll the dreidel (dice), they’ll learn more about the Jewish symbols while also moving their body with different exercises! What exercises will we get?! Dreidel Cube Warm-Up! But don’t worry!

PE

PLT4M

APRIL 22, 2024

At PLT4M, we recommend teaching gymnastic skills to the entire class allowing ample students time to practice the movements together. 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.

PE Teacher

Gopher Sport

APRIL 2, 2024

From Hula Hooping around your body to rolling the hoop around the gym and jumping through it, hula hoops have endless possibilities. – Spin the hula hoop and use it as a timer to have students exercise while it twists. Second, you can use them for almost anything. Check out some of my favorite ways to use hula hoops below!

Gyms

Heartzones

JULY 10, 2023

This revolutionary thought process will change the way we teach physical education. It is impossible to know what intensity each person is working at or for how long their heart rates have been sustained in the proper heart rate zone during exercise without heart rate sensors. Then something changed. Show me your data.

Physical Education

The Physical Educator

MARCH 26, 2022

This is part two of my three-part blog post mini-series on the Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility (TPSR) model. Part Two: Nine Teaching Strategies That Support TPSR In The Classroom. It’s important to remember that our students are always learning from us, both inside and outside of the gym.

Physical Education

Gopher Sport

APRIL 10, 2024

Teaching Physical Education for 17 years in the Topeka Metropolitan area has been a labor of love and a highlight of my life. 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! Have all the students start in the middle of the gym.

Motivation

PLT4M

JUNE 15, 2023

A quality physical education program goes beyond skill building and teaches students about healthy lifestyles through fitness, nutrition, health, and more. Instead, healthy active choices will revolve around working out at home, the fitness center or gym, and beyond. And we do this in a wide variety of physical literacy domains.

Physical Education

PLT4M

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Strength training, particularly compound barbell exercises, is one of the best ways to reduce overuse injuries. This training includes carefully selected strength exercises, performed at specific intensity and volume, aimed at preserving a resiliency to injury and maintaining maximal strength & power output during competition.

Strength

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.

Fitness

Arizona Health and Physical Education

JULY 21, 2023

The beginning of the school year is always a time of anticipation and excitement about what we are going to teach, maybe unpacking new equipment, meeting new students and figuring out the ‘specials’ schedule. What teaching strategies can we use to help our students enjoy physical education class? Simple right? Simply put, visuals!

Physical Education

PLT4M

MARCH 3, 2023

Virtual PE is a great way to engage students in physical activity while teaching important physical education concepts. ” But past just physical activity , students need to learn the essential skills and strategies to exercise. Odd rounds (1,3,5,7) consist of boxing exercises focusing on offense, defense, and footwork.

PE

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Partner students up as they walk into the gym Students play rock paper scissors The student that wins runs away and is the runner The student that loses does 5 jumping jacks and then is the chaser Once a tag is made repeat. As students enter the gym, put them in groups of 5 or more. The winner keeps going and the loser sits down.

Gyms

The Sporting

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The Top 8 Sports for Fitness: Your Full Guide to The Best Sports To Improve Fitness While some people thrive in the structured environment of a gym, not everyone feels like they are cut out for the gym grind. Gym or sports, as long as you’re engaged, you will feel better for exercising - and your body will thank you for it.

Fitness

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. This revolutionary thought process has changed the way we teach Physical Education. . Lesson Design: Documenting Results.

Physical Education

Skillastics

JULY 1, 2022

There’s no denying the pandemic changed the way we communicated, learned, and even exercised. Technology and interactive media are the tools that introduce the variety your students need, and turn your one-fruit exercise regime into a cornucopia of physical activity. If you don’t know how to teach Folklorico dance? That’s okay!

Physical Activity

Skillastics

JULY 1, 2022

There’s no denying the pandemic changed the way we communicated, learned, and even exercised. Technology and interactive media are the tools that introduce the variety your students need, and turn your one-fruit exercise regime into a cornucopia of physical activity. If you don’t know how to teach Folklorico dance? That’s okay!

Physical Activity