Learning Through Sport

MARCH 1, 2025

Rink (2006) suggested that movement concepts as the content for physical education has the potential to be the subject matter of physical education that enables teaching and learning for the long term curricular goals usually espoused for physical education - the transfer of learning to active and healthy living beyond the school gate.

Physical Education

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. Simplify with Ready-Made Solutions A powerful way to motivate staff is to eliminate guesswork.

Physical Activity

Gopher Sport

MAY 1, 2025

Maryrose Camara A Passion for PE on an International Stage With seven years of experience teaching in the UAE, Maryrose has found her passion in helping students develop resilience and leadership skills through movement. Maryrose works to adapt lessons accordingly, ensuring all students feel included and motivated.

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Stanford Childrens

MARCH 21, 2025

Music can be a great motivator, says one of the music therapists. If participants share movement goals, the intervention may take on more of a physical aspect. They may play music to assess a child for their response to it. Or they may engage a child in musical play or songwriting as ways to help them develop positive coping skills.

Creativity

PLT4M

JULY 25, 2025

What do middle schoolers need to build confidence and motivation? From foundational movement to advanced fitness, our programs are structured, flexible, and student-centered. These skills are essential building blocks for more complex movements later on. That freedom is exciting but overwhelming.

Motor Skills

PLT4M

JANUARY 27, 2025

High-quality PE lesson plans play a critical role in helping PE teachers inspire, motivate, and engage their students while teaching valuable skills that extend far beyond the gym. A well-crafted lesson doesnt just teach a skillit sparks excitement for movement, fuels creativity, and helps kids develop a love for physical activity.

Elementary

Relentless School Nurse

MAY 12, 2025

Thats the premise behind a recent, must-listen podcast episode that brings together five grassroots leaders from the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement and five prominent public health experts for an honest, eye-opening conversation. Bridging the Divide In todays America, debates about health have become deeply polarized.

Health

PLT4M

MARCH 3, 2025

Well-thought-out PE sub plans not only help maintain the flow of the class but also ensure that students stay active, motivated, and safe, even in the PE teachers absence. Even when the teacher is absent, PE should still promote movement and exercise. Avoid a Free Block Sub days shouldnt be a time for students to relax.

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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. Active learning strategies lead to less boredom and more intrinsic motivation to learn.

Physical Activity

Relentless School Nurse

JUNE 10, 2023

Grandparents are an invaluable resource in the gun violence prevention movement. The special bond between grandparents and their grandchildren is a wellspring of inspiration and motivation. To fully utilize the potential of grandparents within the movement, efforts should be made to engage them.

Movement

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. Be creative and include them in games and movement challenges.

Motor Skills

PE Scholar

JULY 31, 2024

Introduction Step into this week's podcast, where we explore the realm of physical education and its pivotal role in shaping the health and wellbeing of

Motivation

Moving Minds Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Just as phones and cellular service companies need updates and means to improve their value, schools need different techniques to encourage teachers to offer (or offer more) movement breaks. If the motivation to allow students to do activity breaks [.]

Motivation

Reinventing the Game

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

This means that precise movements are needed in push-ups and sit-ups to trigger the automatic count. Insisting on precision takes a fair bit of time in the preparation phase, usually a teacher-centred process which leads to possibly external regulation for most learners (limited intrinsic motivation).

Physical Education

School Yard

JANUARY 9, 2019

As an adult influence on students’ experience with health and fitness, physical education teachers can play a key role in encouraging students to make movement a priority throughout their lives. The post Motivating Students to Make Movement a Lifelong Priority appeared first on Schoolyard Blog | Teacher Resources | School Specialty.

Motivation

Gopher Sport

APRIL 19, 2024

Key Components of Standard 4: Standard 4 states that students should develop personal skills, identify personal benefits of movement, and choose to engage in physical activity that is personally meaningful. Social connections through movement will not be fostered if someone does not move.

Physical Activity

PLT4M

JUNE 7, 2022

In this article, Sean explores motivational theories in physical education. Understanding Motivational Theories in Physical Education Often the responsibility for motivation is placed solely on the student in physical education (PE) classes. Sean Fullerton is a former secondary physical education teacher and current Ph.D.

Motivation

Reinventing the Game

AUGUST 27, 2021

All the mentioned recent events for me are encouraging because these are stuff that drives me but still overwhelming because of the need to carve out time to have the motivation and energy to want to embark on being better at it. So is PE even necessary for such movement-for-survival culture?

Physical Education

Heartzones

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Starting in the Fall of 2022, every student in my school had tried it out at some point by the end of the year and they all truly loved them, saying that… “It was a true motivator for them to move and to try to get as many FIT points as possible.” “I love the MOTIVATION TO KEEP MOVING!”

Schooling

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. We are so excited to have partnered with physical education leaders, bringing joy and fun back to movement for two decades!

Movement

Skillastics

MAY 10, 2022

Here are five easy ways to increase student engagement and movement in your students by 50%. You still can provide inspirational, motivational leadership by how enthusiastically you share the information and the constant positive feedback you provide. Don’t worry, it’s possible. Their brains are still developing. party as well.

Movement

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Francis’s School (STFS) in Western Australia, the Physical Education (PE) program plays a crucial role in helping students rediscover their love for movement and physical activity. Simon and his colleagues work tirelessly to reignite the students’ awareness of the importance of movement for life and vitality. STFS is a C.A.R.E.

Movement

Arizona Health and Physical Education

OCTOBER 16, 2024

She has a passion for inspiring young minds to embrace movement and creates a fun and engaging learning environment where every child feels motivated to be active. Her supervising teacher stated that Ashley has a natural ability to create engaging activities that meet her students’ needs while helping them achieve mastery.

Elementary

PLT4M

JUNE 15, 2023

” And beyond just ability, people have started to look at the importance of motivation and attitudes toward physical fitness and activity. 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.

Physical Education

Physical Education Ideas

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Physical literacy involves holistic lifelong learning through movement and physical activity. Today’s environment and increasingly sedentary lifestyles mean many children are missing out on learning fundamental movement skills, like how to run, throw, kick, catch or jump. How do we accomplish Physical Literacy at a school level?

Physical Education

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

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

The PE Geek

APRIL 9, 2023

2016), video feedback provides a visual learning experience that can help students better understand their movements and identify areas for improvement. Motivation: Video feedback can improve students’ motivation by helping them see their progress over time and boosting their confidence. According to a study by Horton et al.

PE

My Zone

JULY 20, 2023

The variables of motivation, mental health, and access to movement, are difference-makers for everyone. But it makes no difference whether you’re a Paralympian, British Champion, or someone just starting out on their fitness journey. Here’s why…

Motivation

MSU

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Use our six criteria for a motivating practice activity to grade your own practice activities. Every coach should want players to be highly motivated during a practice activity. But where does that motivation come from? Are some players just motivated from the inside? Or does motivation arise from the practice activities?

Motivation

Better Coaching

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Young athletes who specialize in one sport are subject to the same movements, muscles, and joints being stressed repeatedly. By participating in different sports, athletes use a variety of muscles, engage in different types of movement patterns, and allow overworked muscles to recover during off-seasons.

Sports

The Sporting

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Somedays, you’ll lack motivation, you’ll have the most painful blisters, and you’ll likely make mistakes such as running in a pair of non-running shoes. Any movement is good, especially if you don’t perform regular cardio or exercise. Running with a partner can be a great motivator. That’s okay. If you can’t run, walk.

Motivation

Gopher Sport

AUGUST 14, 2023

In this blog, we’re featuring 5 of our brand new, innovative products for the upcoming school year that are sure to excite and motivate your students! And for an extra twist, encourage creative movement as they flip their way to victory! With Rainbow Set magnets, they can even compete with a burst of colorful motivation.

Gyms

Reinventing the Game

JUNE 15, 2021

This paper explore the ecological perspective to the complexity existence that skills learning takes place in, i.e. why and how movement emerges. This is perhaps opposed to the more palatable perspective of skills learning as solely mechanical and existing in a ‘simple’ environment of learner and teacher, i.e. how movement is created.

Physical Education

Gopher Sport

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Recent evidence suggests that adding developmentally appropriate cognitive demands to patterned movement stimulates executive function and the precursor skills to reading and math ( Paschen et al., 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

JULY 18, 2022

But more likely than not, if your gut says it is not a right fit, it probably isn’t. Because this is physical education though, hopefully the icebreaker includes some movement. In addition, movement-based icebreakers will begin to lay the foundation and expectation for what is to come in class.

Physical Education

PLT4M

OCTOBER 23, 2023

These include: STATE GOAL 19: Acquire movement and motor skills and understand concepts necessary to engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity. Example 1: STATE GOAL 19 “Acquire movement and motor skills and understand concepts necessary to engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity.”

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