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5 Tips for Teaching Physical Education Without a Gym

SHAPE America

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.

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Teaching Cricket in Primary Schools

The PE Hub

Breaking Boundaries: Teaching Cricket in Primary Schools As summer fast approaches (hopefully bringing the sunny weather with it), so do the ‘summer sports’ in PE. Each of these activities comes with different challenges when teaching in primary schools. However, this does not have to be the case.

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What I’ve Learned About Spreading Kindness in My School — on World Kindness Day and Throughout the Year

SHAPE America

As a health and physical education teacher, I teach kindness as part of my curriculum. Teaching Kindness Makes a Difference in School Culture For the last three years, we have used the health. I was teaching my students tools for their toolbox to manage their emotions in their everyday lives. The impact of health. minds event.,

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5 Strategies for Using the National Physical Education Standards … and the Benefits of Being a Standards-Based PE Teacher

SHAPE America

How do you know what to teach in your physical education classes? Using SHAPE America’s National Physical Education Standards as the guide to my teaching helps me prepare my students to take charge of their own physical literacy journey — and I recommend that’s where you start as well. What do your students need?

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Why teach gymnastics in primary school?

Aspire-Ed

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. Gymnasts exercise body and mind.

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Resources: Free Videos Teach Desktop Yoga for In-Class Physical Education

Physical Education Update

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.

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New Course: Teaching an Enriched Primary Gymnastics Curriculum

Aspire-Ed

As a result, it’s seen as a difficult and dangerous sport to teach, with teachers left apprehensive about delivering lessons. So how do you move from fearing the sport to making it one of your favourite to teach? The course gives you the skills, knowledge and confidence to plan, teach and assess primary gymnastics.