Montessori Physical Education

JUNE 8, 2025

Well, here’s the quiet part out loud: Far too many PE teachers are failing to integrate their content with the broader school curriculum. Math teachers are weaving in coding. Science teachers are collaborating with art teachers. Language arts teachers are writing persuasive essays on environmental science.

PE

PLT4M

JUNE 13, 2025

The right instant activities for elementary PE can help kick off physical education class with energy and structure. In this article, we explore a variety of instant activities that physical education teachers can tap into throughout the year. What Are Instant Activities for Elementary PE? Let’s dive in! Get Free Sample Lessons!

Elementary

Arizona Health and Physical Education

JULY 31, 2025

Hard to believe that a short 6 or 8 weeks ago, we were counting down to the END of the school year, and now here we are getting ready for another round of “meet the teacher” night! If you have a bulletin board in your gym or locker room, if you’ve used signs during a fitness activity or game, if you’ve used a scoreboard, you’ve used visuals.

Physical Education

PLT4M

JULY 25, 2025

In this article, we will explore the vast range of PE curriculum options from PLT4M. Challenges Creating Quality PE Curriculum Across Grade Levels Designing a PE curriculum that works across all grade levels isn’t easy. PLT4M’s physical education curriculum is built with and by PE teachers—for PE teachers.

Motor Skills

Gopher Sport

MAY 1, 2025

At the International School of Creative Science in the UAE, PE teacher Maryrose Camara is bringing all of this to life in a dynamic, culturally rich program thats engaging students in ways that go far beyond the gym. Keep learning and sharing with other PE teachers to stay inspired.

PE

PLT4M

JANUARY 27, 2025

Elementary physical education teachers have a lot to cover! We have put together a free sample of elementary PE lesson plans that are sure to spark excitement with elementary students in physical education class. Platforms like Teachers Pay Teachers offer creative ideas, but most schools dont fund these purchases.

Elementary

PLT4M

JULY 16, 2025

By designing lessons with Standard 3 in mind, teachers can help students grow into thoughtful, respectful teammates—skills that extend far beyond the gym. That’s where thoughtful planning and guidance from the physical education teacher comes in. As a physical education teacher, how you frame these activities matters.

Elementary

S&S

JULY 14, 2025

But beyond movement and fitness, PE offers something just as powerful: the chance to teach essential life skills that shape how … Read More The post From Gym to Classroom – Using PE to Teach Life Skills That Support Student Success appeared first on S&S Blog.

Gyms

PLT4M

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Jump rope activities for elementary PE also support additional SHAPE K-5 standards, including but not limited to: 2.2.3 Teaching Cues for Jump Rope To help students build confidence in physical education class, PE teachers should start by teaching proper jump rope techniques before incorporating fun and engaging jump rope activities.

Elementary

Montessori Physical Education

JULY 6, 2025

As the kids came up to get a small memento and hug their teachers for the last time, little bits of information about them were shared with the class. When they got to the career question, to my complete shock, they said Marshall wanted to be a gym teacher. My first reaction in my head was, "You don’t want to be a PE teacher."

PE Teacher

PLT4M

MAY 9, 2025

Whether PE teachers want a quick game for an instant activity or fun variations to fill an entire PE class, there are countless options to choose from. Physical education teachers can easily adapt tag games to work indoors or outside, offering flexibility based on available space.

Elementary

PLT4M

MARCH 18, 2025

However, there are plenty of fun variations and activities that can be introduced in PE to keep soccer exciting and engaging for elementary students. Physical education teachers can modify soccer games to work inside the gym or outdoors, allowing for flexibility depending on the space available. Download Now!

Elementary

SHAPE America

OCTOBER 12, 2023

KYSHAPE provides daily slides with prompts, as well as activities and social media posts for each daily theme that administrators, health and physical educators, and other classroom teachers can use. As a health and physical education teacher, I teach kindness as part of my curriculum. The impact of health. minds event., but all year.

Schooling

SHAPE America

AUGUST 2, 2023

I am a National Board Certified elementary physical education teacher with more than 13 years of experience. In 2022, I was honored to be named the SHAPE America National Elementary Physical Education Teacher of the Year. Any teacher, administrator or parent who enters the gym can see the foundations of what we are working on. #4:

Physical Education

SHAPE America

MARCH 21, 2023

Here are a few winter activities for elementary PE that include opportunities to practice personal responsibility, cultural studies, and physical fitness outside. Wow, that got to me as a teacher, as a mother, and as a Minnesotan! They all asked me, “How do you build a snowball?”

Elementary

SHAPE America

JUNE 8, 2022

It was not unusual for my girls volleyball team to be kicked out of the gym because the football team needed an indoor space because of bad weather. Megaera Regan Megaera Regan is a retired elementary physical education teacher from the Port Washington School District on Long Island. This was probably my first real “Title IX Battle.”

Elementary

The PE Specialist

AUGUST 1, 2023

Don’t you love getting to see inside another PE Teachers equipment room? Anytime I visit another school one of my favorite things is to go see how they organize things in their gym and equipment room so I can grab a few ideas for myself and hopefully improve the way […] What’s Up Phys Ed Fam!

Phys Ed

Physical Education Update

JULY 17, 2022

This video provides a great reminder for PE teachers and coaches. While this video highlights a hockey rink, the concept applies to soccer fields and nets, basketball courts, gymnasiums, gym equipment, running tracks, swimming pools and more.

PE Teacher

Physical Education Ideas

JANUARY 3, 2020

Whether you’re officially starting your new school year or coming back after the long Christmas break, returning to school can be challenging for both students and teachers. Kids and teachers alike have spent the entire break eating delicious treats, sleeping in and doing almost whatever we wish. The next tip is to plan.

PE Teacher

Mr. Kirsch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

This idea is from Jon Peterson, PE Teacher Robert Frost Elementary Do not run into one another.

Gyms

Active Schools Us

MARCH 24, 2021

Throughout the pandemic, after getting into that gym and working up a sweat practicing our individual skills at separate baskets, we all left the gym feeling a little bit healthier and a little bit happier. Second, when adults get involved with kids for a sport or other activity or engage in PE, everyone wins.

Coaching

Gopher Sport

JULY 12, 2024

Through careful planning and continuous improvement, PE classes should be educational and fun! Equipping students with the skills and the confidence to lead a healthy lifestyle outside the gym.

PE Teacher

Carly's P.E. Games

MAY 23, 2021

My gym allows for 7-8 roads. Place 2 scooters under a gym mat. This has become a well known game in the PE teacher community. Please check out my other links: My Teachers Pay Teachers Store: [link] My Webpage: [link] My Youtube Channel: [link] My Pinterest Page: [link] Video coming soon!

Physical Education

Montessori Physical Education

OCTOBER 2, 2022

One of the most frustrating things that happen on a way too frequent basis is students who don't go to PE because they are held back by a classroom teacher. If a student was misbehaving in class and not listening to the teacher, they missed PE. PE should be a non-negotiable. They didn’t turn in their homework.

PE

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. Parents and their children would go from class to class to hear from the teachers about what they could expect their children to be learning in the coming year.

Gyms

Mindful PE

MAY 20, 2020

Our school has been closed since March, but today I got the chance to go in and take a peek at the gym and pack up my old classroom. I'm following a wonderful PE teacher and have some very big shoes to fill. I also plan on trading out the background in my Virtual PE Class (read more HERE ) to match the school gym.

Gyms

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

PLT4M

JULY 22, 2022

Thank you to all of the teachers and coaches who share our mission of empowering students with the love and skills for lifelong fitness. On top of that, many of our teachers and coaches have gone above and beyond the call to action. PLT4M's new office and gym decked out for the company holiday party 2019. Ready to Learn More? .

Physical Education

Gopher Sport

JULY 8, 2024

An Olympic year is always a special time for an elementary PE teacher. While there are certainly many events that a teacher can draw inspiration from, I am particularly biased to the original events, athletics, swimming, and chariot races! In this event, four runners each run 100 meters and hand the baton to the next runner.

PE Teacher

Montessori Physical Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Students who dislike gym are typically less physically gifted than some of their counterparts. Physical education professionals (and some Montessori teachers) may ask, “What are we losing from traditional PE if we utilize an integrative model?” This makes them resistant to wanting to teach PE. What are we losing?

PE

Physical Education Ideas

JANUARY 11, 2024

It does not matter how good of a teacher you are, or how much you know about the content if you have poor classroom management. I am constantly seeking ways to get better as a teacher. How can you make amends or repair the relationship with your classmates or the PE teacher? This was a game changer for me.

Physical Education

PLT4M

OCTOBER 27, 2022

PE teachers can choose from endless PE activities without equipment. We share six examples of fitness-focused pe activities without equipment and provide a downloadable PDF of even more lessons for your physical education class. Many teachers will consider splitting the class into two more manageable small groups.

PE

Mindful PE

JULY 23, 2021

One of the biggest changes I experienced moving from a classroom teacher position to the PE teacher position was figuring out what to teach and when for all grades, K-5, for the entire year. Because of that, I am recommending some of my favorite PE books to help fill in the gaps with grade-level specifics.

PE

Arizona Health and Physical Education

MAY 9, 2023

We’re all ready to put the equipment away (hopefully somewhat organized), submit those final progress reports or grades, and shut the gym, wrestling room, multipurpose room doors for at least 6ish weeks. What’s a teacher on summer break to do?! I’m right there with you! But let’s be realistic. How much Netflix can one watch?

Physical Education

School Yard

APRIL 3, 2020

We PE teachers are masters of walking into a storeroom and using whatever equipment is there to create amazing opportunities for students to move, collaborate, and be physically literate. Tips and Reminders for PE Teachers: Your students need to see you working to create opportunities to learn outside of school like you do in your gym.

Teaching

Mindful PE

JULY 28, 2021

As a new PE teacher, coming from the classroom, I was not prepared for the number of times I would need to reestablish the ground rules and expectations for PE class. It was such a shift from my world as a classroom teacher, where I had eight hours a day, five days a week to establish and reinforce a system.

PE

Gopher Sport

APRIL 10, 2024

So impactful, that Topeka School District decided to create a whole day of Professional Development and purchase BlazePod for each elementary Physical Education teacher in the district. 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!

Motivation