PLT4M

MAY 9, 2025

Tag games for elementary PE are more than just fun ways to get students movingthey help young learners build essential skills like offensive and defensive movement, evasion tactics, change of direction, and spatial awareness. Defense : Deny space during gameplay by cutting off routes and anticipating movement.

Elementary

Montessori Physical Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

We've significantly updated our pricing and membership options after carefully considering what would help teachers and educators the most. We’ve drastically changed our subscription structure to offer you more flexibility, more value, and easier access to everything you need to keep your students engaged and active. What’s New?

Physical Education

PLT4M

JULY 15, 2025

Teachers and schools are often left navigating a wide range of options. This makes it even more important to find a flexible, relevant, and standards-aligned solution that supports teachers and speaks to students’ lived experiences. Even better—it’s all designed by teachers, for teachers.

Health

PLT4M

JULY 30, 2025

Whether you’re managing a physical education class, off-season program, or in-season training schedule, or some combo of all – flexibility is key. >>> Need to add a demo or movement explanation ? Instead, students follow flexible strength and conditioning templates that adjust to their goals and experience. “I

Strength

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. Teachers can pair and match different drills depending on total class time.

PE Teacher

Carly's P.E. Games

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Sit and Reach Test for Flexibility Check out what we have learned this month: Videos are available for some activities! Students did tons of locomotor movements, animal walks, soccer, basketball and scooters. Our new PreK and Kindergarten students are also doing a great job learning the expectations. We are off to a GREAT start!

Schooling

Aspire-Ed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Flexibility, strength, technique, speed, control, coordination and balance are all developed through gymnastics. KS1: “Pupils should develop fundamental movement skills, become increasingly competent and confident and access a broad range of opportunities to extend their agility, balance and coordination, individually and with others.

Primary School

Moving Minds Blog

MAY 17, 2018

As a Kindergarten teacher, I’m always looking for quick and easy ways to get my students moving without taking up a lot of instructional time. I use a variety of flexible seating options to help meet this goal.

Movement

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Practicing these actions through physical activity helps children develop executive function skills such as attention control, working memory, cognitive flexibility, and inhibitory control. The ability to synchronize movements with rhythm is fundamental to children’s ability to pull to a stand, walk, run, skip, and gallop.

Physical Education

PLT4M

AUGUST 9, 2024

Standard 2: Applies knowledge related to movement and fitness concepts. Sub-standard 2.12.8 : Designs and implements a plan that applies knowledge of aerobic, strength and endurance, and flexibility training exercises. PE teacher Sue Mathewson displays PLT4M curriculum options on a smart board at Hammond Central High School.

Fitness

Montessori Physical Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Nothing brought shame quite like a week-long test that evaluated speed, strength, and flexibility. 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.

PE

Gopher Sport

AUGUST 28, 2023

According to Carolyn Temertzoglou in her article posted on the Gopher Sport blog, “Non-Traditional Sports in PE” Carolyn references non-traditional games “provide new experiences, opportunities for positive social interaction, and develop movement competence within fun/joyful experiences.” Skills Developed: Forehand/backhand.

Physical Education

The Sporting

JANUARY 10, 2023

The founder of Shotokan was also an educational teacher at the Toyama College of Agriculture and Engineering in Japan. The Shotokan style of karate emphasises speed, power and flexibility. This position is used for offensive movements and allows the practitioner to move forward quickly.

Flexibility

PLT4M

JULY 31, 2023

Benefits of Tracking Student Progress – The Why Tracking student progress benefits students, teachers, administrators, and families. By tracking their progress, teachers can identify individual student learning needs and tailor their teaching methods to suit each student better.

Physical Education

Gopher Sport

AUGUST 24, 2023

My cooperating teachers were masters at planning and preparation – down to even writing out my teacher talk to prepare for the week ahead. I see the focus on game play shift into middle and high school, but at the elementary level, my hope to create a love for physical movement. Whether, your students have P.E.

Physical Education

PLT4M

OCTOBER 27, 2022

PE teachers can choose from endless PE activities without equipment. Many teachers will consider splitting the class into two more manageable small groups. This is an excellent strategy for managing a large class size that we know many PE teachers face! No equipment, no problem. Get Access Here.

PE

PLT4M

JULY 25, 2023

As technology advances, it is becoming increasingly important for physical education teachers to integrate technology into their classrooms. In this article, we will explore the different ways physical education teachers can go about integrating technology in the classroom. Will technology replace teachers ? (We

Physical Education

PLT4M

MARCH 6, 2023

He specializes in creating training and physical resources for physical education teachers to promote the inclusion of students with disabilities. These programs are designed to improve mobility, strength, flexibility, and overall physical fitness. Teachers must provide instruction supported by Universal Design for Learning (UDL).

Physical Education

The Sporting

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Barre yoga is a low-impact workout that combines slow movements with high-intensity interval workouts for the entire body. Barre yoga implements elements from yoga and pilates with movements derived from ballet. It typically focuses on small, pulsing movements and puts great emphasis on form, alignment and core engagement.

Flexibility

Gopher Sport

APRIL 1, 2022

Stretching and Yoga are some of the most beneficial movements you can add to your PE program. Not every student is comfortable with these types of movements. Check out a few ways to help students with their balance, flexibility, and coordination while keeping them engaged and interested. Build It Into a Routine for Every Class.

PE

Learning Through Sport

JUNE 30, 2021

McBride (1999) suggested that if PE teachers deliberately structure lessons with the need for critical thinking and creativity in mind, students will learn the cognitive skills and the dispositions that support them will be reinforced.

Convergent Discovery

PLT4M

APRIL 17, 2023

Historically, sport coaches and strength coaches have worked with high school athletes, but now physical education teachers are getting involved. A physical education teacher works with a student in a high school strength and conditioning class.

High School

Learning Through Sport

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

GBAs provide an alternative to the technical orientated ‘behavourist’ teaching and sport coaching which is based on a dominance of direct instruction for replication of prescribed movement models (Pill & Hyndman, 2018): what Tinning (2010) described as demonstrate-explain-practice.

Sports

The Sporting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The Ashtanga yoga teachings emphasise breath, so every breath remains a single movement. This type of yoga allows more time for the teacher to help out beginners. The yoga teacher will instruct you on the correct way of breathing to hold the pose, and you will need to hold through the pressure.

Flexibility

Moving Minds Blog

MAY 10, 2022

Teachers often fall along a continuum of integrating movement in their classrooms, ranging from fully comfortable to extremely hesitant, for a variety of reasons. It’s my goal, as a teacher educator, to try to move all pre-service and in-service teachers down the spectrum to the “fully comfortable” side.

Elementary

Gopher Sport

JUNE 27, 2023

Incorporate engaging warm-up activities that are fun, inclusive, and reinforce basic movement skills. Dynamic PE ASAP has a great Week 1 lesson that emphasizes rules and expectations and includes signs to display in your gym and also videos of master teachers that you can watch to enhance your classroom management. with Mr. G.

PE

The Sporting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

So, when we talk about Ashtanga, we can expect to follow the same pattern of movements and focus in the third week of the class as performed in the first one. On the other hand, Vinyasa yoga is quite flexible. In fact, many teachers of Vinyasa yoga love playing some melodious tones in their classes to set a mood.

Flexibility

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Practicing these actions through physical activity helps children develop executive function skills such as attention control, working memory, cognitive flexibility, and inhibitory control. The ability to synchronize movements with rhythm is fundamental to children’s ability to pull to a stand, walk, run, skip, and gallop.

Physical Education

TinCan Physed

JULY 24, 2021

There is where you can start to see an impact on the way your program assesses and gives feedback to your students and establishes best practices for all of the teachers who are involved in making the program run smoothly and encourage progress. Any teacher anywhere could take these ideas and make them work with their students and community!

Assessment

TinCan Physed

JULY 24, 2021

There is where you can start to see an impact on the way your program assesses and gives feedback to your students and establishes best practices for all of the teachers who are involved in making the program run smoothly and encourage progress. Any teacher anywhere could take these ideas and make them work with their students and community!

Assessment

PLT4M

JUNE 5, 2023

By using differentiated learning strategies, physical education teachers can create an environment more conducive to learning, allowing each student to reach their full potential. This article will discuss some of the different strategies teachers can utilize to differentiate instruction in physical education.

Physical Education

Skillastics

JULY 1, 2022

Faced with the unique obstacle of continuing physical activity and movement while living and learning remotely, we rose to the challenge and created our own programming: Digital Programs that could be used in remote, hybrid, or onsite classroom environments. Just push play, and our expert will teach it for you!

Physical Activity

Skillastics

JULY 1, 2022

Faced with the unique obstacle of continuing physical activity and movement while living and learning remotely, we rose to the challenge and created our own programming: Digital Programs that could be used in remote, hybrid, or onsite classroom environments. Just push play, and our expert will teach it for you!

Physical Activity

Aspire-Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Over 90 primary school PE teachers, senior leaders, business managers and governors booked to join us at Millennium Point, all on a mission to boost their PE, school sport and physical activity offering. It can enhance both teachers’ teaching and children’s learning. Effective assessment supports pupils to succeed.

Primary School

PLT4M

MARCH 15, 2023

Because of this, many high school teachers and sports coaches are given the charge to run the high school strength and conditioning program. More importantly, we drive every decision from a constant feedback loop from our teachers, coaches, and students across the country.

High School

PLT4M

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

2) Student Interest and Motivation – Regardless of requirements, physical education teachers know that they must capture the interest and attention of students. Unlike other subjects, PE requires physical activity and movement, which can be intimidating to many students.

High School

PLT4M

MARCH 3, 2023

If virtual PE is going to be synchronous learning, there is still an obvious element of technology needed for PE teachers and students to work together. But if virtual PE is going to be any amount asynchronous, then PE teachers need to find a way to track and monitor the completion of course content for students at home.

PE