MSU

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

For example, teach your athletes how to set goals or how to manage their time. She teaches courses in the Sport Coaching, Leadership, and Administration online graduate programs. Her research interests include coach education, online teaching and learning, positive youth development through sport, and modified youth sports.

Psychology

Gopher Sport

MAY 1, 2025

PE classes run twice a week, incorporating not just skill-building exercises but also ethical sportsmanship, teamwork, and leadership trainingall while blending local cultural values with global best practices. Challenges of Teaching PE in an International School Teaching in a multicultural environment comes with its challenges.

PE

PLT4M

JANUARY 27, 2025

Some focus heavily on teaching individual skillslike dribbling or jumpingbut lack engaging, fun activity ideas. Others offer exciting games but fail to connect those activities to broader goals, such as physical literacy or teaching foundational skills. Another significant challenge is the cost of high-quality resources.

Elementary

PLT4M

MARCH 3, 2025

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. Each lesson includes a one page lesson overview, equipment checklist, game setup, teaching cues, standard alignment and more! Download Now!

PE

SHAPE America

AUGUST 4, 2022

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. Teach your students about boundaries and that outdoor PE class is different than recess. Start by making it clear to students and parents that teaching outside is not recess.

Gyms

SHAPE America

APRIL 18, 2023

Every May, we celebrate physical educators and coaches — the “champions” who help kids gain the confidence, competence, and motivation to be physically active in school, before and after school, and for the rest of their lives. Here is a sample fun beginner circuit (listed as a regression/primary exercise/progression).

Motor Skills

SHAPE America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

As the American College of Sports Medicine puts it, Exercise is Medicine. Brain scans show that bouts of aerobic exercise enable students’ brains to activate and be more ready to learn. Active learning strategies lead to less boredom and more intrinsic motivation to learn. Teach students how to learn and to love learning.

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. Students were given a Post-It to write a motivational message. I was amazed by their responses!

Teaching

The Sporting

APRIL 5, 2024

Elise Spicer: Motivation and starting your fitness journey. Elise Spicer PT gives a very candid and honest account of her fitness motivation and what it took to take the first steps on her journey. Check out Elise on Instagram You are someone that knows all about motivation, and trying to find it.

Motivation

Reinventing the Game

JUNE 15, 2021

These pair of words may sound simplistic and maybe even having negative literal connotations at first, especially if you have never encountered it with relation to learning and probably off-putting to someone who wants to teach better and got no appetite for seemingly obscure concepts. The concept of non-linear development comes in.

Physical Education

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

Relentless School Nurse

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The process of selecting a Word of the Year is a deeply personal and reflective exercise. From incorporating the word into a vision board or journal to using it as a guiding principle for decision-making, the selected word can serve as a constant companion and a source of motivation throughout the year.

Schooling

PLT4M

JUNE 7, 2022

student at the University of New Mexico in the Health, Exercise, and Sports Science Department. In this article, Sean explores motivational theories in physical education. 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 Sporting

MARCH 24, 2023

If you’re looking for fitness motivation, we’ve compiled a list of 10 popular fitness influencers on Instagram to follow this year! If you’re looking for motivation to pump those muscles and abs, you should follow him. For her, family health is the priority and she shares her workouts and fitness motivation on her page.

Fitness

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? Also challenge your clients to try something new.

Gyms

Arizona Health and Physical Education

AUGUST 27, 2024

Below are some strategies and ideas for teaching students with autism in physical education. For example, routinely ask that the student help put equipment away, or sit in a designated spot with their squad, or even a calming routine such as lying down, breathing exercises or stretching (Groft-Jones & Block, 2006).

Physical Education

Skillastics

MAY 23, 2022

Some educators use the words motivation and engagement interchangeably, but they’re very different. Motivation, from the Latin word motivus–meaning moving–is the force or thing that prompts you to act where engagement is a feeling of belonging, commitment, or purpose towards an organization or idea.

Motivation

Physical Education Update

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Paul Staso Running Through Alaska If you’re looking for a way to motivate your students to walk or run on a regular basis, check out the PaceTrek.com website. 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

PLT4M

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This includes the capacities to delay gratification, manage stress, and feel motivation and agency to accomplish personal and collective goals. Explicit – Emotions Activity In this lesson, high schoolers practice labeling and experiencing different emotions during a meditation exercise.

High School

Gopher Sport

AUGUST 14, 2023

In this blog, we’re featuring 5 of our brand new, innovative products for the upcoming school year that are sure to excite and motivate your students! FlipFrenzy Set is a game that combines speed, strategy, and exercise for an electrifying PE session. With Rainbow Set magnets, they can even compete with a burst of colorful motivation.

Gyms

Skillastics

JUNE 23, 2022

Studies have proven that physical movement helps kids improve their memory, increase their motivation, and improve motor skills. Exercise was proven to: Increase the number of neurotransmitters in the brain. The post Reasons Movement Teaches Kids to Think and Learn Differently appeared first on Skillastics. Absolutely.

Movement

Reinventing the Game

MAY 1, 2021

I have been lamenting on this for our practise for some time, i.e. how we introduce movement evaluation cues directly as teaching cues to our learners. This is an extremely popular way of teaching for many. This brings to the forefront for me the role of cognition and its influence on how we teach.

Physical Education

PLT4M

JUNE 15, 2023

” And beyond just ability, people have started to look at the importance of motivation and attitudes toward physical fitness and activity. A quality physical education program goes beyond skill building and teaches students about healthy lifestyles through fitness, nutrition, health, and more. ” (Whitehead M.

Physical Education

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

Reinventing the Game

APRIL 14, 2022

In approaching a teaching scenario, the above diagram, Fig 1 , seems to suggest a possible start with Learner Outcome consideration before moving on to decide our intervention strategy, Teacher Input. We add to this challenge by also wanting to be very specific with our teaching outcomes, e.g. values, affective, skills , etc.

Physical Education

Montessori Physical Education

AUGUST 27, 2023

We have our own goals and objectives, such as teaching gross and fine motor movement and Social and Emotional skills. Sport provides a unique lens into society by reflecting its values, but only when that motive is intentional by the teacher. However, a co-curricular complements and connects to the academic curriculum.

PE

Gopher Sport

APRIL 10, 2024

Motivate Students and Increase Activity Time with BlazePod By: Kevin Hopp, Zeke Bailes, Hank van der Merwe In an age where sedentary lifestyles have become the norm, the quest for engaging and innovative physical education solutions has led to the introduction of BlazePod , a ground breaking Flash Reflex Training system into schools.

Motivation

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. Visuals can help you communicate expectations in your teaching. Part Three: How To Structure A TPSR Lesson.

Physical Education

Gopher Sport

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

By gamifying the experience, Disc It motivates students to hone their skills while enjoying a quick-to-learn game that also emphasizes physical activity. An Exciting New Way to Teach Disc Sports Now, I know what you’re thinking – another game to add to the mix? The best part? But hear me out. Yes, you read that right – a mile!

PE

PLT4M

JULY 19, 2022

student at the University of New Mexico in the Health, Exercise, and Sports Science Department. Technology can be useful at enhancing teaching and learning in physical education by increasing physical activity (PA) levels (Melton et al., 2015), motivation (Melton et al., 2015), motivation (Melton et al.,

Physical Education

PLT4M

JULY 18, 2022

A wide variety of benefits come from using this type of physical education ice breaker. From a student’s perspective, as they make their choices and head to that corner of the room, students work out and exercise near different classmates every 30 seconds. Motivating students in physical education is far from simple!

Physical Education

Heartzones

JULY 25, 2024

One of the key objectives was to increase “learning and teaching effectiveness” by “identifying the relationship between exercise intensity and heart rate.” With the Heart Zones Move Solution, student motivation has increased with all participants being highly engaged. ” Student Approved!

PE

The Sporting

JULY 12, 2023

By breaking down long-term aspirations into smaller, manageable objectives, athletes can stay focused and motivated - and measure their progress effectively. By fostering resilience, maintaining motivation and visualising the healing process, sports psychologists contribute to faster recovery and a successful return to sport.

Psychology

The Physical Educator

DECEMBER 5, 2022

When I made the jump from teaching to full-time instructional coaching and content creation, I knew that I needed to get crystal clear in regard to the philosophy that would guide my work. Throughout my career, I constantly invested in my pedagogy and teaching practice (Empowered Teaching). Happy Teaching! Take Action!

Wellness

PLT4M

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

student at the University of New Mexico in the Health, Exercise, and Sports Science Department. Teachers should create motivating environments that accommodate diverse learning abilities. Autonomy, relatedness , and competence are the three psychological needs that make a person more self-determined (Ryan & Deci, 2000).

Assessment

PLT4M

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

student at the University of New Mexico in the Health, Exercise, and Sports Science Department. 2-4). Teaching strategies are ways to organize the learning environment for large group instruction Rink (2013). learner initiated, self-teaching). learner initiated, self-teaching). What is Cooperative Learning?

Cooperative Learning

Heartzones

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

” After a decade of teaching, Brian began using Heart Zones’ wearable fitness technology in 2016. It’s also a strong motivator for students and also gives the teachers the ability to gamify their lessons. for their motivation to play/move. Funding is important.

Schooling