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.
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.
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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 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.
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.
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.
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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