PLT4M

JULY 25, 2025

School districts and PE teachers often face the challenge of finding resources that are both high-quality and engaging for students of different ages, interests, and experience levels. Motor skills, fitness education, social-emotional learning, sport skills, and personal wellness all come into play.

Motor Skills

Better Coaching

DECEMBER 24, 2024

A well-designed sports program has the capacity to teach teamwork, sportsmanship, grit, leadership, and many other life skills, as well as a lifelong love for their game. This early commercialism can overshadow the fundamental aim of youth sports: enjoyment, character development, a growing love for the sport, and holistic well-being.

Sports

PLT4M

JULY 15, 2025

A high-quality health curriculum is more than a requirement—it’s a powerful tool that equips students with lifelong wellness skills. Schools today are looking for resources that are current, relevant, and skills-based. When schools provide a strong wellness curriculum, they help students build healthy habits that can last a lifetime.

Health

Montessori Physical Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

As a PE teacher in a Montessori school, I know my situation is unique compared to PE teachers in traditional schools. I recognize that I have it easier compared to many of my peers, especially in the public school setting. Every week, I have a mere 50 minutes to pack in as much as possible.

PE Teacher

PLT4M

JULY 31, 2025

An engaging and dynamic health class in high school can be a game-changer for students’ physical, mental, and emotional well-being. This article explores five keys to fostering a successful and impactful health class in high school. >>> It’s more than just textbook learning—it’s a chance to build lifelong skills.

Health Class

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

Open Phys Ed

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Development of specific skills and strategies that include throwing and catching, chasing and fleeing, as well as flag pulling are targeted learning outcomes. SIGN UP HERE OPEN Priority Outcomes: Etiquette: Recognizes the role of rules and etiquette in teacher-designed physical activities.

Academics

PLT4M

JULY 2, 2025

Whether you’re a veteran teacher or new to health education, this guide will offer clear insight into what skills-based health education looks like—and how it can come to life in your classroom. >>> The 8 National Health Education Standards are: Use functional health information to support health and well-being of self and others.

Health Education

SHAPE America

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Health-literate students can understand how their decisions affect their health and well-being and the health and well-being of those around them. Implementing these activities in middle school can help lay the foundation for making healthy choices throughout adolescence. Let’s take a look.

Middle School

SHAPE America

OCTOBER 3, 2023

What if the entire school and community applauded students for developing the skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary to be health-literate individuals ? As a middle school health and physical education teacher, I know first-hand that initiatives impacting the whole school and surrounding community can be powerful.

Health

SHAPE America

OCTOBER 12, 2023

such as teamwork, gratitude, kindness, wellness, and mindfulness. 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. More teachers started utilizing mindfulness in their classrooms.

Schooling

PLT4M

JUNE 12, 2024

Middle school health curriculum is critically important because it targets students at a pivotal age when they are developing habits and attitudes that will influence their future health. Challenges Of Middle School Health Curriculum There has never been a sole curriculum or singular approach to health education within schools.

Middle School

SHAPE America

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

This will include ways to integrate prevention education into your health classroom, how prevention education intersects with health and wellness, and introduce free resources that are available to you. Know the Facts. Most kids don’t drink. In fact, less than one in five teens report consuming alcohol in the past 30 days.

Health

PLT4M

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Filling up an entire semester of middle school physical education units can be challenging. But there are plenty of fun and engaging middle school physical education units to choose from. The Need For Variety With Middle School Physical Units Middle school physical education is unique!

Middle School

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.

Motor Skills

SHAPE America

JUNE 2, 2022

My dad was a soccer player in high school and helped found a rec league in our community in East Hampton, CT, which my brother and I both played in. When I started middle school, there was no girls soccer team, and it didn’t occur to me that I wouldn’t be allowed to try out for the boys team — so I did. I lasted one day.

High School

Alexandra Lemm

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

For elementary school teachers, intervention might be something that is done weekly and can be handled with your eyes closed. However, with middle school and high school teachers, station groups with a teacher table are not necessarily common. Make good judgment calls as a teacher, it´s your class!

Teacher

Open Phys Ed

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

This allows physical education teachers the opportunity to address the physical and emotional well-being of students by developing and reinforcing healthy and responsible behaviors. The post Health & Wellness (Middle School) appeared first on OPEN Physical Education Curriculum.

Middle School

Relentless School Nurse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The program won four Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, two Critics Choice awards, as well as a dozen other industry recognitions. CATHERINE BOREK Scott’s wife, Catherine Borek, has been a public high school teacher in Compton, California, for over a quarter century. But the pandemic was her first time teaching remotely.

Schooling

Open Phys Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

It has been known to improve health-related and skill-related fitness components, as well as helping to establish foot work and motor skills that can serve individuals in many other sports or activities. The post Jump Rope (Middle School) appeared first on OPEN Physical Education Curriculum.

Middle School

Arizona Health and Physical Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In its annual tradition to honor, support and celebrate Arizona’s educators, Fiesta Bowl Charities has granted 500 teachers — including 17 Surprise teachers — with $2,500 each during the Palo Verde Fiesta Bowl Charities Wishes for Teachers Draft Day presented by SRP, for a total of $1.25

Teacher

Open Phys Ed

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

It has been known to improve health-related and skill-related fitness components, as well as helping to establish foot work and motor skills that can serve individuals in many other sports or activities.

Middle School

Human Kinetics

MARCH 22, 2021

By Adam Mullis, Middle School Health and Physical Education Teacher and Coach. In the presentation below, Adam Mullis discusses his experience of leading Wellness Week, a school-wide celebration of health and wellness. Learn creative ways to promote health and wellness for students, faculty, and staff. .

Wellness

Montessori Physical Education

AUGUST 20, 2023

We (teachers and students) do a much better job describing how to show good sportsmanship or what poor sportsmanship looks like. Whether that is incorporating them more in the overall gameplay, complimenting them on a job well done, or offering encouragement during mistakes, all these actions make teammates feel good.

Middle School

Gopher Sport

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In a recent survey of elementary teachers, it was found that most start off the school year with some form of rules/procedures coupled with games of low organization (fun, teamwork, cooperation). It is used to transport the body (to school and back, to the store and back, to the bus and back, or to the car and back).

Cardiovascular

PLT4M

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Physical education teacher resources can enhance and support the mission of quality physical education in schools all across the country. We explore some of the best physical education teacher resources and how teachers can tap into lesson plans, technology, and more. What Are Physical Education Teacher Resources?

Physical Education

PLT4M

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

.” The old school term “gym class” usually elicits images of rolling out the balls and playing dodgeball. Physical education teachers have long tried to leave the term and memories of “gym class” behind them and spotlight their quality physical education programs. Get the case study. Final Thoughts Yes!

Physical Education

Montessori Physical Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

When I played this game with my middle school students, I noticed that it did a much better job of practicing volleyball skills than Newcomb. All these concepts could take weeks of practice to teach, yet, by playing this game, my middle school students started naturally discovering these concepts for themselves.

Middle School

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

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The Importance Of Physical Education Lesson Plans Physical education as a subject in school has always battled stereotypes. Unfortunately, many wrongly assume that a pe teacher just “rolls out the ball” for a typical PE class. But as a pe teacher, you don’t have to go at this lofty task alone!

PE

PLT4M

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A wide range of SEL activities for high school students can help achieve this. What Are SEL Activities For High School? Teachers want to know exactly how to hit on SEL competencies in lesson plans. Explicit SEL Activities For High School: These are targeted SEL lesson plans that focus directly on SEL skills in class.

High School

PLT4M

MAY 3, 2023

Schools have a unique role in helping students develop the skills and knowledge to maintain physical and mental well-being. This article will discuss the importance of fitness and mental health in schools and the need for schools to take action through a deeper investment in physical education. .”

Fitness

PLT4M

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

These include enhanced concentration and attention as well as improved classroom behavor. Free Professional Development For PE From full courses to on-demand webinars, tap into the PLT4M classroom for continuing education opportunities for physical education teachers. . Over 1,500 schools use PLT4M in their physical education classes.

Academics

Learning Through Sport

JANUARY 25, 2023

Physical Education teachers and sport coaches have in common the development of a curriculum (program of learning) and the method (pedagogy) to teach the content of the curriculum. For example, in middle school in Australia it is common for students to have 2x1 hour physical education classes/week for a 40 week school year.

Coaching

Montessori Physical Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Bringing a ball from home base to the teacher will result in receiving two balls. The first time my middle school students played this game, I didn’t explain that this game was serving as a metaphor for sustainability and conservation. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates.

PE

PLT4M

MARCH 3, 2023

No matter what type of school students are enrolled in, children of all ages need physical activity and physical education. The CDC recommends 60 minutes of activity because of the well-documented benefits of physical activity on physical health and mental health. A PLT4M activity dashboard that gives PE teacher insights on activity.

PE

PLT4M

JULY 18, 2022

This article explores physical education ice breaker activities and gives teachers free content to use in class. Why Are Physical Education Ice Breakers Important? The start of a new semester or school year can be intimidating for students. Students can be nervous and anxious about their new classmates, teacher, and class.

Physical Education