Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 31, 2025

In my last post here , I considered what it means to teach physical education for effective learning. In this blog, I connect back to an idea I have discussed before in relation to games based teaching here , that is making a physical education program meaningful. biomechanics, skill acquisition, exercise physiology, etc).

Physical Education

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

Montessori Physical Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Four days a week, I teach two classes in the afternoon, and on Fridays, I have middle school all morning and one more 6-9 class to finish out the week. Not long ago, I worked hard to categorize my lessons using the SHAPE standards (Society of Health and Physical Educators) to ensure I covered key movement patterns and motor skills.

PE Teacher

Skillastics

APRIL 21, 2025

Whether you’re running an Expanded Learning physical activity program or seeking movement-based enrichment activities, the right approach can empower any staff member to confidently lead physical activities. Kids need movement. Staff dont need to memorize complex exercises or create workout routines from scratch.

Physical Activity

PLT4M

MARCH 3, 2025

Each lesson includes a one page lesson overview, equipment checklist, game setup, teaching cues, standard alignment and more! Simple exercises, games, or activities with clear instructions ensure the substitute can manage the class with ease. Even when the teacher is absent, PE should still promote movement and exercise.

PE

PLT4M

JULY 30, 2025

. >>> Free Download: The Essential Guide To Teaching Weight Training What Coaches Look For in a Strength and Conditioning Program Template Coaches want a clear structure that organizes lifts, movements, and conditioning pieces. Add and adjust exercises, notes, sets, reps, and percentages with ease. Even better?

Strength

SHAPE America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Adding more movement — through physical education, recess and active classrooms — is essential for beating the almost-winter blues. Elementary students get the majority of their movement during the school day in physical education (PE) and recess. As the American College of Sports Medicine puts it, Exercise is Medicine.

Physical Activity

SHAPE America

APRIL 18, 2023

Include at least three motor skills and one foundational movement skill every Motor Skill Monday (every day is even better!) Locomotor skills are the fundamental motor skills we most often associate with successful movement, especially in sports. Be creative and include them in games and movement challenges.

Motor Skills

SHAPE America

AUGUST 12, 2024

on a rotating schedule to lead staff in 40 minutes of exercise. Health and Wellness Experts Bringing in professionals that can teach us about gut health, healthy cooking, Buti yoga, and a variety of other topics related to health and wellness has been extremely helpful. Wellness Mondays We try and keep Mondays as a meeting-free day.

Wellness

PLT4M

AUGUST 25, 2022

Exercise and fitness should not be a one size fits all approach. Modified exercises allow every individual to succeed in fitness. In this blog, we will explore 5 exercise modification examples that are an excellent addition to any physical education class or workout. Let’s use the push-up as an example. Get Access Here.

Exercise

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.

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

The Sporting

MAY 4, 2023

Your Guide to Tai Chi: 24 Life-Changing Movements Tai Chi is a famous Chinese martial art - and its origins can be traced back to the ancient world. It is a great discipline for your physical and mental health - and there are many life-changing Tai Chi movements to try out at any age.

Movement

Elementary P.E. Games

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

I’ll go into further details down below or you can go straight to the video You can use this activity as an Encanto brain break, Encanto quiz, or just as a fun movement game to get some exercise! Next, students will have 30 seconds to perform the dance, exercise, or yoga pose that matches with the correct character. -At

Dance

Skillastics

JUNE 23, 2022

Studies have proven that physical movement helps kids improve their memory, increase their motivation, and improve motor skills. Movement and physical activity truly helps kids think and learn differently. Exercise was proven to: Increase the number of neurotransmitters in the brain. Absolutely. Improve oxygen flow to the brain.

Movement

Elementary P.E. Games

MARCH 18, 2022

You can use this Spring brain break as a movement activity, an elementary PE warm up game, or as a fun workout to get your kids/students moving! Players will perform the exercises, dances, or yoga poses that follows once the timer reaches zero and the screen changes. There are 9 different questions in this fun Spring Would You Rather?

Elementary

Carly's P.E. Games

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

This is my 18th year teaching for Kenowa Hills Public Schools, and I must say, this has been the BEST start to the school year that I have experienced! My goal is to MAXIMIZE our time together with lots of movement, exercise, sports and games. Welcome back to school everyone! I feel so blessed to work at KHPS.

Schooling

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. Much of the cues we derive from ideal movement solution may mean little to novices who are still exploring their own range of movement adaptations.

Physical Education

Montessori Physical Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

It doesn't have to be running; many different movement modalities exist. We want to give the child as many potential possibilities as we can by exposing the child to as many different types of movement as possible. However, we do work towards mastering basic gross and fine motor movements. “

PE

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

Carly's P.E. Games

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

The students come once a week for 45 minutes, and each minute is packed full of important learning, playing, exercising and sharing. Students did tons of locomotor movements, animal walks, soccer, basketball and scooters. This teaches them how to run, stop and dodge safely and how to cooperate with others.

Schooling

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

Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 5, 2021

How then do we coach to teach players to concentrate - metaphorically, to shine an intentional 'spotlight' on the things to attend to? Oliver and Colleagues (2020) proposed that teaching players to understand their attention is teaching them concentrate. McCarthy, P. & Burns, L.

Teaching

Montessori Physical Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

“Movement, or physical activity, is thus an essential factor in intellectual growth, which depends upon the impressions received from outside. Through movement we come in contact with external reality, and it is through these contacts that we eventually acquire even abstract ideas.” I love this quote.

Movement

The Everlearner

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Move More Month is a US-founded movement that encourages movement and exercise amongst sufferers of cancer and other illnesses and I have been reading about it in recent weeks. This week, I would like to take the opportunity to draw your attention to Move More Month.

PE Teacher

Open Phys Ed

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

The activities in this module are designed to teach students how to move safely around a track (running loop) while exploring different locomotor movements and having imaginative fun with their classmates. Concepts introduced include physical activity in and out of school, basic nutrition education, safety and locomotor movements.

Nutrition

Aspire-Ed

MAY 1, 2024

What if pupils could achieve higher academic attainment while ticking off their daily movement and exercise targets? Boosting results with physically active learning Physically active learning challenges traditional, desk-based teaching methods by injecting movement into lessons.

Physical Activity

PLT4M

AUGUST 9, 2024

As a result, many schools encourage and support students in designing personal fitness plans in physical education to build and bridge important concepts around fitness and exercise. This approach aims to teach students the value of regular exercise and how to design routines that suit their individual needs and goals.

Fitness

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. Having more space than a classroom is conducive to movement, and students learn better when they move. “ Bibliography: Glossary of Education Reform - [link] Movement in Learning -[link]

PE

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

PLT4M

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Explicit – Emotions Activity In this lesson, high schoolers practice labeling and experiencing different emotions during a meditation exercise. Implicit – Strength Training Activity A fitness center or weight room is a fantastic place to teach the skills of responsible decision-making.

High School

PLT4M

JUNE 15, 2023

(See more here on the differences between physical activity vs. physical education.) Physical literacy is about learning a wide range of functional movement skills across different activities. In this curriculum model, students learn and develop functional movement skills like squat, lunge, hinge, press, and pull.

Physical Education

PLT4M

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Essentially, this refers to poor coordination within a series of muscle contractions once a movement is initiated. This is an issue regarding the relationship between the agonist muscle group (those that start the movement) and antagonist muscle groups (those that control the movement). Ready to Learn More? Bonus Content!

Strength

Gopher Sport

JULY 26, 2024

As physical educators, I believe that we can make a big difference in the gym, teaching peace and love through our everyday practices. Promoting Active Listening with Students In my Texas curriculum guide, I have to teach about “listening,” so last year I made up this project called the “Tell me More” project.

Physical Education

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

Gopher Sport

AUGUST 14, 2023

FlipFrenzy Set is a game that combines speed, strategy, and exercise for an electrifying PE session. And for an extra twist, encourage creative movement as they flip their way to victory! FlipIt Reversible Whiteboards Flip the script on traditional teaching aids! Scatter the vinyl discs and let the excitement begin!

Gyms